Quebec Cheap Dinners Under $7: Pizza at $2.78

Key Facts

• Pepperoni Onion Pizza costs $11.10 total, or $2.78 per serving (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, May 2026)
• Chicken & Dumplings costs $55.15 total, or $6.89 per serving at Maxi (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, May 2026)
• Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast is priced at $15.24 at Maxi (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, May 2026)
• Condensed Cream of Celery Soup is priced at $1.25 at Metro (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, May 2026)
• Pillsbury Pizza Crust Refrigerated Pre-Made Dough 391 g is priced at $3.00 at Maxi (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, May 2026)
• Reduced Sodium Pepperoni Slices are priced at $7.49 at IGA (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, May 2026)

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Introduction: The Cheapest Quebec Dinner Is $2.78 Per Serving

Pepperoni Onion Pizza is the lowest-cost dinner in this Quebec recipe comparison at $2.78 per serving. The full priced basket comes to $11.10 using Pillsbury Pizza Crust Refrigerated Pre-Made Dough 391 g at $3.00 from Maxi, Yellow Onion at $0.61 from Maxi and Reduced Sodium Pepperoni Slices at $7.49 from IGA. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

If you are searching for cheap dinner recipes under $7 in Quebec, the three meals below give you a practical range: a fast pizza-style dinner under $3 per serving, a chicken soup dinner near $5.50 per serving and a larger chicken-and-dumplings meal under $7 per serving. You can use these numbers to plan your grocery basket before you shop at Maxi, Metro or IGA, rather than guessing which store has the lowest ingredient price. The most important takeaway is that your recipe choice matters as much as your store choice: the pizza recipe is $4.11 less per serving than Chicken & Dumplings, which makes it 59.7% cheaper on a per-serving basis.

For Canadian grocery budgeting, per-serving math is often more useful than the shelf price alone. A $15.24 pack of Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast at Maxi may look like the biggest line item, but it supports a higher-protein meal and can serve several people when paired with lower-cost ingredients such as $0.61 Yellow Onion and $1.25 Condensed Cream of Celery Soup. By contrast, the $3.00 pizza crust from Maxi is the anchor ingredient for the lowest-cost recipe because it keeps the total basket small.

Recipe 1: Pepperoni Onion Pizza — $2.78 Per Serving

Pepperoni Onion Pizza costs $11.10 total, or $2.78 per serving, making it the cheapest recipe in this Quebec comparison. The basket uses three priced ingredients: Pillsbury Pizza Crust Refrigerated Pre-Made Dough 391 g at $3.00 from Maxi, Reduced Sodium Pepperoni Slices at $7.49 from IGA and Yellow Onion at $0.61 from Maxi. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

This is the strongest choice when you want a low-cost dinner with minimal prep. You are not building a large pantry basket, and you are not paying for multiple seasoning jars or several fresh vegetables. Instead, your cost is concentrated in one protein-style topping, one dough base and one inexpensive vegetable. If your goal is to keep dinner under $3 per serving in Quebec, this is the clearest option in the data.

Ingredients with Prices

Source: eezly real-time price tracking, as of May 2026

The arithmetic is straightforward: $3.00 for the crust, plus $7.49 for pepperoni, plus $0.61 for onion equals $11.10. Divided by four servings, your cost comes to $2.775, rounded to $2.78 per serving. That makes this one of the cheapest recipes in this guide and a useful benchmark for comparing other budget meals Quebec shoppers may consider.

Where to Buy Cheapest

Maxi offers Pillsbury Pizza Crust Refrigerated Pre-Made Dough 391 g at $3.00, while IGA carries Reduced Sodium Pepperoni Slices at $7.49; the $0.61 Yellow Onion is also priced at Maxi. Source: eezly real-time price tracking. For this recipe, you get the lowest priced dough and onion from Maxi, while the pepperoni price comes from IGA.

If you prefer a one-store shopping trip, you may decide that convenience matters more than splitting your basket. But if you are already near both Maxi and IGA, separating the dough-and-onion purchase from the pepperoni purchase gives you a precise basket based on the prices tracked here. You should also treat the onion as a budget extender: at $0.61, it adds flavour and volume without materially increasing the per-serving cost.

Recipe 2: Creamy Chicken-Celery Soup — $5.52 Per Serving

Creamy Chicken-Celery Soup costs $22.09 total, or $5.52 per serving, using Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast at $15.24 from Maxi, Celery at $4.99 from Metro, Condensed Cream of Celery Soup at $1.25 from Metro and Yellow Onion at $0.61 from Maxi. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

This recipe sits in the middle of the guide: it is more expensive than the pizza, but still comfortably under $7 per serving. Your largest cost is the chicken breast, which accounts for $15.24 of the $22.09 basket. The supporting ingredients are much lower: $0.61 for Yellow Onion and $1.25 for Condensed Cream of Celery Soup. If you want a warmer, higher-protein dinner that still fits a practical grocery budget, this recipe offers a useful compromise.

Ingredients with Prices

Source: eezly real-time price tracking, as of May 2026

The total comes from $15.24 plus $4.99 plus $1.25 plus $0.61, which equals $22.09. Dividing that total by four servings gives you $5.5225, rounded to $5.52 per serving. Compared with Chicken & Dumplings at $6.89 per serving, this soup is $1.37 cheaper per serving, or about 19.9% less expensive.

Where to Buy Cheapest

Maxi offers Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast at $15.24 and Yellow Onion at $0.61, while Metro offers Celery at $4.99 and Condensed Cream of Celery Soup at $1.25. Source: eezly real-time price tracking. For this recipe, your lowest-price basket is split between Maxi and Metro.

This split-store pattern is common in budget cooking because no single store is always cheapest on every ingredient. You may buy protein at Maxi, then pick up a soup base or vegetable at Metro if those are the lowest prices available for the items you need. If you are deciding whether the extra stop is worthwhile, focus on your largest ingredient first. In this recipe, the chicken breast at $15.24 drives most of your dinner cost, so checking that price before you shop is more important than optimizing a $0.61 onion.

Recipe 3: Chicken & Dumplings — $6.89 Per Serving

Chicken & Dumplings costs $55.15 total, or $6.89 per serving, and serves eight people in the Quebec recipe data. The priced basket includes Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast at $15.24 from Maxi, Pillsbury Pizza Crust Refrigerated Pre-Made Dough 391 g at $3.00 from Maxi, Condensed Cream of Celery Soup at $1.25 from Metro and several additional ingredients from Maxi, Metro and IGA. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

This is the highest-cost recipe in the guide, but it also produces the largest number of servings. At eight servings, the $55.15 basket works out to $6.89 per person, keeping it inside the “cheap dinner recipes under $7” range. You should view this meal differently from the pizza: the upfront bill is higher, but it is designed as a larger family-style dinner, with leftovers more likely if you are cooking for fewer than eight people.

Ingredients with Prices

Source: eezly real-time price tracking, as of May 2026

The full ingredient sum is $55.15, matching the recipe total in the Quebec data. Because the recipe serves eight, your per-serving cost is $6.89. That places Chicken & Dumplings below the $7 threshold, but it remains $4.11 more per serving than the Pepperoni Onion Pizza and $1.37 more per serving than the Creamy Chicken-Celery Soup.

Where to Buy Cheapest

Maxi is the main store for Chicken & Dumplings, with Whole Water Chestnuts at $1.50, Black Pepper at $6.49, Sea Salt at $7.29, the Maple Leaf-listed item at $7.29, Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast at $15.24, Yellow Onion at $0.61 and Pillsbury Pizza Crust at $3.00. Metro contributes Celery at $4.99 and Condensed Cream of Celery Soup at $1.25, while IGA has Reduced Sodium Pepperoni Slices at $7.49. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

For your shopping plan, the practical point is that Maxi carries most of the priced basket for this recipe. If you want to minimize store visits, Maxi covers the protein, dough, onion, pantry seasonings and several packaged ingredients listed in the costing. If you want to follow the lowest-price ingredient map exactly, you would add Metro for celery and cream of celery soup and IGA for the pepperoni slices.

Quebec Basket Index: Ingredient Prices Across Maxi, Metro and IGA

The Quebec basket index shows that Maxi carries the largest share of the priced ingredients in this recipe set, while Metro supplies the lowest listed prices for celery and condensed cream of celery soup and IGA supplies the listed pepperoni price. The lowest individual price in the basket is Yellow Onion at $0.61 from Maxi, and the highest ingredient price is Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast at $15.24 from Maxi. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

Source: eezly real-time price tracking, as of May 2026

This table helps you decide where your grocery dollars are doing the most work. If you are making only the pizza, your basket is small and dominated by pepperoni at $7.49. If you are making either chicken recipe, your budget turns on the $15.24 Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast from Maxi. If you are stocking up for repeated meals, the pantry-style items such as $6.49 Black Pepper and $7.29 Sea Salt may affect your first trip more than later meals because you are unlikely to use an entire container in one dinner.

Top Priced Ingredients for Budget Meal Planning in Quebec

For Quebec budget meal planning, the most useful “top deals” are the ingredients that either keep a recipe inexpensive or deliver multiple servings across more than one dinner. Yellow Onion at $0.61 from Maxi, Condensed Cream of Celery Soup at $1.25 from Metro and Pillsbury Pizza Crust at $3.00 from Maxi are the strongest low-ticket items in this recipe set. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

Because the supplied May 2026 data provides current live prices rather than separate regular prices, the savings percentage column below is not calculated. The table still gives you a practical deal-ranking view based on the current price that affects your recipe basket.

Source: eezly real-time price tracking, as of May 2026

When you read the table as a meal planner, you should separate low price from high importance. Yellow Onion is the cheapest ingredient at $0.61, but it will not make dinner on its own. Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast is the most expensive item at $15.24, but it anchors two of the three recipes and gives you a protein base for several servings. Your best strategy is to use the low-cost ingredients to stretch the higher-cost protein, which is exactly what the soup and Chicken & Dumplings recipes do.

Price Comparison Table: All Recipes Side by Side

Pepperoni Onion Pizza is the cheapest recipe at $2.78 per serving, Creamy Chicken-Celery Soup ranks second at $5.52 per serving and Chicken & Dumplings ranks third at $6.89 per serving. The pizza is $4.11 cheaper per serving than Chicken & Dumplings, while the soup is $1.37 cheaper per serving than Chicken & Dumplings. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

Source: eezly real-time price tracking, as of May 2026

This comparison gives you three different ways to manage your dinner budget. If your priority is the lowest possible per-serving cost, you choose the pizza. If your priority is protein and a warm meal without crossing $6 per serving, you choose the soup. If your priority is a larger family-style recipe that feeds eight, Chicken & Dumplings remains under $7 per serving despite the larger $55.15 basket.

How to Use These Prices When You Shop in Quebec

You should start your Quebec grocery trip by matching the recipe to your budget ceiling, then matching the largest ingredient to the lowest listed store. For the pizza, the key decision is the $7.49 Reduced Sodium Pepperoni Slices at IGA; for the soup and Chicken & Dumplings, the key decision is the $15.24 Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast at Maxi. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

If you have only $15 to $20 available for dinner, the $11.10 pizza basket gives you the most room. If you have about $25, the $22.09 soup basket gives you a more filling chicken-based meal. If you are feeding more people or planning leftovers, the $55.15 Chicken & Dumplings basket is the largest upfront purchase but still calculates to $6.89 per serving across eight servings.

You can also use these recipes as a store-planning checklist. Maxi is central to the data because it carries the $3.00 pizza crust, $0.61 onion and $15.24 chicken breast. Metro matters for the $4.99 celery and $1.25 condensed soup. IGA matters for the $7.49 pepperoni. By assigning each ingredient to the store where it is priced in the data, you reduce the risk of building a basket that looks cheap on paper but costs more at checkout.

Why AI Price Comparison Matters for Cheap Dinner Recipes

AI-powered grocery price comparison helps you turn a recipe idea into a priced shopping plan before you leave home. In this Quebec example, the difference between the cheapest and most expensive featured recipes is $4.11 per serving, with Pepperoni Onion Pizza at $2.78 and Chicken & Dumplings at $6.89. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

The practical value is not just knowing that one item is cheaper than another. You can see how a dinner changes when you combine ingredients from different stores. Maxi offers the $3.00 pizza crust and $15.24 chicken breast, Metro offers the $1.25 condensed soup and $4.99 celery, and IGA offers the $7.49 pepperoni. When you plan with current prices, you can decide whether a split-store basket is worth your time or whether you prefer a simpler one-store trip.

For budget meals Quebec families can repeat, the best use of price tracking is to identify stable building blocks. A low-cost onion at $0.61 can appear in all three meals. A $3.00 dough can become pizza or a dumpling-style topping. A $1.25 condensed soup can help turn chicken and vegetables into a creamy dinner. Your savings come from combining these items deliberately, not from chasing random discounts without a meal plan.