Saskatchewan Budget Meals: Chili at $8.03/Serving

Key Facts

• Beef Chili costs $64.25 total for 8 servings, or $8.03 per serving. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, May 2026)
• Lean Ground Pork Chub is priced at $23.29 at Costco Regina. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, May 2026)
• Compliments No Salt Added Canned Black Beans cost $1.69 at FreshCo 33rd St & Avenue. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, May 2026)
• Compliments Canned Crushed Tomatoes 796 ml cost $2.00 at FreshCo 33rd St & Avenue. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, May 2026)
• Red Kidney Beans cost $2.00 at Cindy's Your Independent Grocer. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, May 2026)
• Chili Powder costs $3.50 at Independent in Saskatchewan. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, May 2026)

Introduction: Beef Chili Is the Main Saskatchewan Dinner at $8.03 Per Serving

Beef Chili is the benchmark budget dinner in this Saskatchewan price check at $8.03 per serving. The full basket totals $64.25 for 8 servings, with the largest cost drivers coming from Lean Ground Pork Chub at $23.29 at Costco Regina, Kirkland Signature Frozen Vegetable Special Blend Stir Fry at $17.09 at Costco Regina, and Red Onions at $12.99 at Freshco. If you are searching for cheap dinner recipes under $9 in Saskatchewan, this chili basket gives you a concrete price point using real May 2026 grocery data rather than estimated pantry math.

For your weekly planning, the most important lesson is that “cheap dinner” does not always mean one-store shopping. Your lowest-priced chili basket draws from Costco Regina for bulk protein and frozen vegetables, FreshCo 33rd St & Avenue for canned black beans and crushed tomatoes, Cindy's Your Independent Grocer for red kidney beans, and Independent for chili powder. In Saskatchewan, active grocery banners tracked for this market include No Frills, Your Independent Grocer, Sobeys, Real Canadian Superstore, Safeway, Freshco, Wholesale Club and Walmart, but the recipe prices below use only the specific products and stores available in the May 2026 data.

This article prices three chili-style budget meals Saskatchewan households can use for dinner: the full Beef Chili basket, a lower-cost Vegetable Bean Chili, and a Vegetable Stir-Fry Tomato Chili. Each recipe uses the same real Saskatchewan ingredient prices, so you can compare the effect of adding or removing higher-cost items such as bulk protein, frozen vegetables and onions. The goal is not to create a theoretical cheapest recipe, but to show how your cost per serving changes when you build meals from actual store prices.

Recipe 1: Beef Chili — $8.03 Per Serving

Beef Chili costs $64.25 for 8 servings, or $8.03 per serving, using Saskatchewan grocery prices tracked in May 2026. The basket is anchored by Costco Regina, where Lean Ground Pork Chub is priced at $23.29 and Kirkland Signature Frozen Vegetable Special Blend Stir Fry is priced at $17.09. Your best use of this recipe is as a batch-cooked dinner: one pot gives you eight servings, which can cover a family meal plus leftovers or several individual lunches.

The full recipe is relatively high in total basket cost because it includes both a bulk protein item and a bulk frozen vegetable item. Those two Costco Regina products account for $40.38 of the $64.25 recipe cost, before beans, tomatoes, onions, sauce and chili powder are added. If you want the most filling of the three cheapest recipes in this guide, this is the option to choose, but you should expect the cost per serving to sit above the bean-forward alternatives.

Ingredients with Prices

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

Where to Buy Cheapest

Costco Regina is the most important stop for this full chili basket because it supplies the two largest-priced components: the $23.29 Lean Ground Pork Chub and the $17.09 Kirkland Signature Frozen Vegetable Special Blend Stir Fry. Together, those two items represent the core of the recipe’s protein-and-vegetable base. If you already shop at Costco Regina, adding these items to a planned trip makes the Beef Chili basket easier to execute without making several small store visits.

FreshCo 33rd St & Avenue is the key stop for low-priced canned chili ingredients. FreshCo 33rd St & Avenue offers Compliments No Salt Added Canned Black Beans 540 ml at $1.69, while Cindy's Your Independent Grocer lists Red Kidney Beans at $2.00 — a 15.5% lower price for the black bean component compared with the kidney bean line in this basket, based on eezly data from May 2026. FreshCo 33rd St & Avenue also lists Compliments Canned Crushed Tomatoes 796 ml at $2.00, which helps keep the tomato base of your chili from becoming a major cost driver.

For seasoning, Independent lists Chili Powder at $3.50, and Extrafoods lists Worcestershire Sauce at $1.69. These smaller items matter because they round out the recipe without adding the same cost burden as protein or vegetables. When you build your list, you should group the ingredients by store: Costco Regina for the bulk items, FreshCo 33rd St & Avenue for black beans and tomatoes, Cindy's Your Independent Grocer for kidney beans, Extrafoods for Worcestershire sauce, and Independent for chili powder.

Recipe 2: Vegetable Bean Chili — $2.98 Per Serving

Vegetable Bean Chili costs $23.87 for 8 servings, or $2.98 per serving, when you remove the higher-priced bulk protein and frozen vegetable items from the full chili basket. This is the strongest option if you want cheap dinner recipes under $3 per serving in Saskatchewan using the May 2026 prices available here. Your meal still uses beans, tomatoes, onions and seasoning, but it avoids the $23.29 Costco Regina protein line and the $17.09 Costco Regina frozen vegetable line.

This recipe is built from Red Kidney Beans at $2.00 from Cindy's Your Independent Grocer, Compliments No Salt Added Canned Black Beans at $1.69 from FreshCo 33rd St & Avenue, Red Onions at $12.99 from Freshco, Compliments Canned Crushed Tomatoes at $2.00 from FreshCo 33rd St & Avenue, Worcestershire Sauce at $1.69 from Extrafoods, and Chili Powder at $3.50 from Independent. The total is exactly $23.87, and dividing that by 8 servings gives you $2.98 per serving. For your budget, this is the clearest example of how beans and canned tomatoes can stretch a dinner basket.

Ingredients with Prices

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

Where to Buy Cheapest

FreshCo 33rd St & Avenue is the most useful store for this lower-cost bean chili because it carries two of the lowest-priced canned ingredients in the recipe. You can buy Compliments No Salt Added Canned Black Beans 540 ml for $1.69 and Compliments Canned Crushed Tomatoes 796 ml for $2.00 at FreshCo 33rd St & Avenue. Those two products give you a $3.69 canned base before you add onions and seasoning.

Cindy's Your Independent Grocer adds Red Kidney Beans at $2.00, which gives your chili a second bean type and more texture. Independent supplies Chili Powder at $3.50, while Extrafoods supplies Worcestershire Sauce at $1.69. If you already have chili powder or Worcestershire sauce at home, your out-of-pocket trip could be lower, but the recipe costing here counts the full product prices so that your comparison stays consistent and tied to current Saskatchewan data.

The biggest cost in this recipe is Red Onions at $12.99 from Freshco. That single line is more than half the recipe cost, so your meal-planning decision is straightforward: keep the onions if you value flavour and volume, or use this table to understand why onion-heavy recipes may cost more than expected in this particular Saskatchewan basket. Even with that $12.99 item included, the recipe remains the cheapest of the three dinners in this guide at $2.98 per serving.

Recipe 3: Vegetable Stir-Fry Tomato Chili — $4.87 Per Serving

Vegetable Stir-Fry Tomato Chili costs $38.96 for 8 servings, or $4.87 per serving, using the May 2026 Saskatchewan prices in this ingredient set. This middle-cost option keeps the $17.09 Kirkland Signature Frozen Vegetable Special Blend Stir Fry from Costco Regina, but leaves out the $23.29 Lean Ground Pork Chub. If you want a larger vegetable-forward dinner without moving into the $8.03-per-serving full chili basket, this recipe gives you a practical compromise.

The recipe combines Kirkland frozen vegetables, red onions, black beans, crushed tomatoes, Worcestershire sauce and chili powder. Your total comes to $38.96, calculated from $17.09 for frozen vegetables, $12.99 for red onions, $1.69 for black beans, $2.00 for crushed tomatoes, $1.69 for Worcestershire sauce and $3.50 for chili powder. Divided across 8 servings, this dinner lands below $5 per serving while still using a broader vegetable base than the $2.98 bean chili.

Ingredients with Prices

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

Where to Buy Cheapest

Costco Regina is still central to this recipe because the Kirkland Signature Frozen Vegetable Special Blend Stir Fry is priced at $17.09. That one item supplies the vegetable base, and it is the reason this recipe costs more than the bean-only chili but less than the full protein-based chili. If your goal is to cook a vegetable-heavy dinner for several servings, this basket gives you a way to stay under $5 per serving using the tracked Saskatchewan prices.

FreshCo 33rd St & Avenue again carries the most important canned ingredients for this recipe. FreshCo 33rd St & Avenue offers Compliments No Salt Added Canned Black Beans at $1.69 and Compliments Canned Crushed Tomatoes 796 ml at $2.00, creating a $3.69 bean-and-tomato base. Independent adds Chili Powder at $3.50, and Extrafoods adds Worcestershire Sauce at $1.69, keeping the seasoning costs transparent.

Your main price tradeoff is between volume and cost. The $17.09 frozen vegetable item makes this recipe more substantial than the $2.98-per-serving Vegetable Bean Chili, but it also raises the total basket by $15.09 compared with the $2.00 crushed tomato line alone. If you are planning dinners for a week, you can use this middle recipe when you want more vegetables without adding the higher-priced protein line.

Saskatchewan Basket Index: Ingredient Prices Across Stores

The Saskatchewan chili basket shows the widest price pressure in bulk protein, frozen vegetables and onions, while canned beans, tomatoes and sauces remain under $4 per item. Lean Ground Pork Chub at Costco Regina is $23.29, Kirkland Signature Frozen Vegetable Special Blend Stir Fry at Costco Regina is $17.09, and Red Onions at Freshco are $12.99. By contrast, black beans, kidney beans, crushed tomatoes and Worcestershire sauce each appear between $1.69 and $2.00 in the May 2026 price data.

This basket index helps you decide which items deserve the most attention when you compare stores. You do not need to spend the same amount of time optimizing a $1.69 sauce line as you do a $23.29 protein line. When your goal is budget meals Saskatchewan families can repeat, your largest savings opportunity usually comes from checking the highest-priced ingredients first.

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

For a direct comparison within the bean-and-tomato portion of the basket, FreshCo 33rd St & Avenue offers Compliments No Salt Added Canned Black Beans at $1.69, while Cindy's Your Independent Grocer lists Red Kidney Beans at $2.00 — a 15.5% lower price for the black bean line in this basket, according to eezly real-time price tracking from May 2026. FreshCo 33rd St & Avenue also offers Compliments Canned Crushed Tomatoes at $2.00, which matches the kidney bean price while serving a different role in the recipe. You can use those lower-cost canned items to stretch a chili dinner when meat or frozen vegetables push the basket higher.

Top Priced Ingredients for Cheap Saskatchewan Dinners

The best low-cost ingredients in this Saskatchewan recipe set are the canned and sauce items priced at $2.00 or less. Worcestershire Sauce is $1.69 at Extrafoods, Compliments No Salt Added Canned Black Beans are $1.69 at FreshCo 33rd St & Avenue, Red Kidney Beans are $2.00 at Cindy's Your Independent Grocer, and Compliments Canned Crushed Tomatoes are $2.00 at FreshCo 33rd St & Avenue. These are the items you should prioritize when you are building the cheapest recipes from the available May 2026 data.

Because the source data provides live item prices but not separate regular prices, the table below reports current tracked prices and uses “not provided” for regular-price fields rather than inventing discount claims. That protects your budget decisions from unsupported savings math. The actionable takeaway is still clear: the under-$2 and $2 items form the lowest-cost backbone of the chili recipes.

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

The table also shows why your recipe choice matters more than any single small item. If you choose the Vegetable Bean Chili, you are building around $1.69 and $2.00 canned goods, which keeps your cost per serving at $2.98. If you choose the full Beef Chili basket, you add the $23.29 protein line and $17.09 frozen vegetable line, raising the recipe to $8.03 per serving.

Price Comparison Table: All Recipes Side by Side

Vegetable Bean Chili is the cheapest recipe in this Saskatchewan comparison at $2.98 per serving, followed by Vegetable Stir-Fry Tomato Chili at $4.87 per serving and Beef Chili at $8.03 per serving. The difference is driven by ingredient selection, not serving count, because all three recipes are costed at 8 servings. If you are searching for cheapest recipes in Saskatchewan, start with the bean chili and move up only when you want more vegetables or a protein-heavy dinner.

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

For your household, the practical decision is about how much dinner volume and variety you need. The $2.98 Vegetable Bean Chili is the strongest budget option when price is the main constraint. The $4.87 Vegetable Stir-Fry Tomato Chili is a middle path when you want more vegetables. The $8.03 Beef Chili is the most complete and highest-cost option in this set because it includes the bulk protein and frozen vegetable components.