Saskatchewan Cheap Dinners: Chicken Salad $7.63 at Freshco

Key Facts

• Chicken Salad costs $76.29 for 10 servings, or $7.63 per serving, in Saskatchewan. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, May 2026)
• Boneless skinless chicken breast is priced at $24.49 at Independent. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, May 2026)
• Old El Paso Fajita Seasoning Mix 24 g is priced at $1.25 at FreshCo 33rd St & Avenue. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, May 2026)
• Lemons are priced at $11.39 at Costco Regina. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, May 2026)
• Mixed bell peppers are priced at $9.69 at Costco. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, May 2026)
• Celery sticks are priced at $5.49 at Freshco. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, May 2026)

Introduction

Chicken Salad is the featured cheap dinner recipe for Saskatchewan because it comes in at $76.29 for 10 servings, or $7.63 per serving, based on eezly real-time price tracking as of May 2026. You get a high-protein dinner built around boneless skinless chicken breast at $24.49 from Independent, Greek yogurt at $6.00 from Independent, celery sticks at $5.49 from Freshco, and fajita seasoning at $1.25 from FreshCo 33rd St & Avenue. For Saskatchewan households planning budget meals, the biggest advantage of this recipe is that the ingredient list can be reused across multiple dinners without changing the underlying grocery basket.

This article uses the Chicken Salad basket as the base for three dinner options: the full Chicken Salad, a Chicken Fajita Pepper Salad, and a Cottage Cheese Crunch Salad Plate. You should treat the recipe costs as package-level dinner costing, meaning each ingredient is priced at its observed store price rather than estimated by spoonful or partial unit. That approach is practical for grocery budgeting because you pay the checkout price, not the theoretical ingredient fraction. The active Saskatchewan banners in the data include Costco, Freshco, No Frills, Real Canadian Superstore, Safeway, Sobeys, Walmart, Wholesale Club, Your Independent Grocer, Extrafoods, FreshCo, Independent, and Superstore.

Recipe 1: Chicken Salad — $7.63 per serving

Chicken Salad costs $76.29 for 10 servings, or $7.63 per serving, in Saskatchewan as of May 2026. The largest cost driver is boneless skinless chicken breast at $24.49 from Independent, which accounts for about 32.1% of the full recipe basket. The recipe is still useful for budget planning because the remaining ingredients are flexible, salad-friendly staples that you can reuse in lunches, wraps, bowls, and snack plates during the week. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

For your grocery plan, this is the most complete dinner in the comparison because it includes protein, vegetables, dairy, citrus, and seasoning in one 10-serving batch. You are not relying on a single sale item to make the recipe work; instead, you are spreading the cost across several store-checked ingredients. The $1.25 Old El Paso Fajita Seasoning Mix from FreshCo 33rd St & Avenue is the lowest-priced item in the basket, while the $24.49 chicken breast from Independent is the most expensive. If you are comparing cheap dinner recipes under $8 per serving in Saskatchewan, this is the recipe to use as the protein-forward benchmark.

Ingredients with Prices

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

The ingredient shares show where your budget decisions matter most. Chicken breast, red onions, lemons, and mixed bell peppers together account for $58.56 of the $76.29 recipe basket, which is 76.8% of the total cost. That means you will get the largest impact by watching those four items when you compare stores. The seasoning mix is only $1.25, so it changes the flavour profile without materially changing your per-serving cost.

Where to Buy Cheapest

Freshco is the named store for the Chicken Salad recipe, with the full recipe costed at $76.29 and $7.63 per serving. For individual ingredients, you should split your shopping by store if you want to follow the lowest observed prices in the data: chicken breast and Greek yogurt at Independent, red onions and celery sticks at Freshco, lemons at Costco Regina, mixed bell peppers at Costco, and fajita seasoning at FreshCo 33rd St & Avenue. That kind of store-by-store planning is especially useful in Saskatchewan because the same dinner basket may touch several banners even when one recipe is associated with a single store.

If you do not want to visit multiple stores, use the item shares to decide what is worth comparing. The $24.49 chicken breast is more important to your total cost than the $1.25 seasoning mix, so you should prioritize the protein first. You should also watch the $12.99 red onions and $11.39 lemons, because those two produce items together cost $24.38, nearly the same as the chicken breast. For a family that repeats this meal, your best savings habit is not skipping vegetables; it is checking the highest-cost ingredients before you build the basket.

Recipe 2: Chicken Fajita Pepper Salad — $6.58 per serving

Chicken Fajita Pepper Salad costs $65.81 for 10 servings, or $6.58 per serving, when you build it from the Saskatchewan ingredient prices tracked in May 2026. This version keeps the $24.49 chicken breast from Independent, the $9.69 mixed bell peppers from Costco, the $12.99 red onions from Freshco, the $1.25 Old El Paso Fajita Seasoning Mix from FreshCo 33rd St & Avenue, the $6.00 Greek yogurt from Independent, and the $11.39 lemons from Costco Regina. It comes in $10.48 lower than the full Chicken Salad basket because it excludes celery sticks and cottage cheese. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

You should use this recipe when you want the same protein-forward dinner profile but do not need every dairy and vegetable component from the original Chicken Salad. At $6.58 per serving, it is $1.05 cheaper per serving than the $7.63 Chicken Salad. Across 10 servings, that difference matters because it keeps the meal closer to the “cheap dinner recipes under $7” range while still using chicken breast. The cost reduction is not theoretical; it comes directly from removing the $5.49 celery sticks and the $4.99 Nordica cottage cheese from the basket.

Ingredients with Prices

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

The cost structure of this recipe is concentrated in three items: chicken breast at $24.49, red onions at $12.99, and lemons at $11.39. Together, those three ingredients cost $48.87, or 74.3% of the $65.81 recipe basket. If you are trying to control your grocery bill, you should compare those items before worrying about the seasoning, because the $1.25 fajita mix represents only 1.9% of this recipe cost. The practical lesson is clear: flavouring a budget meal is inexpensive when your seasoning cost is low, but your protein and produce choices determine the final per-serving price.

Where to Buy Cheapest

For this recipe, the cheapest observed ingredient path is a split basket across Independent, Freshco, Costco, Costco Regina, and FreshCo 33rd St & Avenue. Independent offers the chicken breast at $24.49 and the Greek yogurt at $6.00, while Freshco offers the red onions at $12.99. Costco supplies mixed bell peppers at $9.69, Costco Regina supplies lemons at $11.39, and FreshCo 33rd St & Avenue supplies the fajita seasoning at $1.25. Because the seasoning is so inexpensive, you should not make a special trip for it unless FreshCo 33rd St & Avenue is already part of your route.

This is also the recipe where you can see the value of comparing by basket rather than by single item. The $65.81 total is $10.48 below the full Chicken Salad basket, but you still keep the chicken, peppers, onions, yogurt, lemon, and seasoning. If your goal is a Saskatchewan budget meal that still feels like a complete dinner, this version gives you a lower price point without moving to a fully vegetarian plate. You can prepare it as a cold salad, a warm bowl, or a filling for pantry wraps if you already have wraps at home, but no extra wrap cost is included in the recipe total because it is not part of the supplied price data.

Recipe 3: Cottage Cheese Crunch Salad Plates — $5.06 per serving

Cottage Cheese Crunch Salad Plates cost $50.55 for 10 servings, or $5.06 per serving, using Saskatchewan prices tracked in May 2026. This is the cheapest recipe in the comparison because it removes the $24.49 chicken breast and builds the meal around Nordica Cottage Cheese at $4.99, Plain 8% Greek Yogurt at $6.00, celery sticks at $5.49, mixed bell peppers at $9.69, red onions at $12.99, and lemons at $11.39. Compared with Chicken Salad at $7.63 per serving, this recipe is $2.57 cheaper per serving and $25.74 cheaper across 10 servings. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

You should choose this dinner when your priority is the lowest package-cost recipe rather than the highest-protein chicken option. The $5.06 per-serving cost makes it the strongest fit for searches such as “cheapest recipes Saskatchewan” and “budget meals Saskatchewan,” especially if you want a no-cook or low-cook dinner. It is not the same meal nutritionally as the chicken version, but it uses real priced ingredients from the same Saskatchewan grocery landscape. Your trade-off is straightforward: you give up chicken breast, and in exchange you reduce the recipe cost by 33.7%.

Ingredients with Prices

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

This recipe shows how much the $24.49 chicken breast affects the dinner budget. Once you remove chicken, the most expensive item becomes red onions at $12.99, followed by lemons at $11.39 and mixed bell peppers at $9.69. Cottage cheese at $4.99 is actually the lowest-cost dairy item in this plate, below the $6.00 Greek yogurt. If you want a cheaper Saskatchewan dinner without relying on canned or ultra-processed items, this recipe gives you a real grocery-store pathway using fresh produce and dairy.

Where to Buy Cheapest

The cheapest observed buying path for this recipe is Independent for cottage cheese and Greek yogurt, Freshco for celery sticks and red onions, Costco for mixed bell peppers, and Costco Regina for lemons. You can think of this as the “produce-and-dairy” version of the Chicken Salad basket. Because there is no chicken, you should focus your price comparison on red onions, lemons, and peppers, which together cost $34.07. Those three items represent 67.4% of the $50.55 recipe basket.

If you are shopping in Regina or elsewhere in Saskatchewan, this is the dinner you should consider when you want the lowest listed cost per serving in this article. It is also the best candidate for meal prep because the ingredients can be portioned into plates or containers without a cooking step. You can use the Greek yogurt and lemon as the dressing base, cottage cheese as the filling dairy component, and celery, peppers, and onions for crunch. The result is a low-cost dinner plate that fits the data rather than a recipe built from vague pantry assumptions.

Basket Index: Saskatchewan Staple Prices for These Recipes

The eight-ingredient Chicken Salad basket totals $76.29, and the highest-cost item is boneless skinless chicken breast at $24.49 from Independent. This basket index gives you the store-level price for each staple used in the three recipes, so you can decide where your grocery attention should go first. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

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

For your budget, the basket index is more useful than a single headline price because it shows which items are doing the most work in the final bill. Chicken breast at $24.49 is 19.6 times the price of the $1.25 seasoning mix, so you should never treat all grocery decisions as equal. The top four items in the basket — chicken, red onions, lemons, and mixed bell peppers — cost $58.56 combined. That is why a small change in one high-cost item can matter more than comparing the lowest-priced flavouring.

Top Price Checks for Saskatchewan Budget Meals

The most important price check in this recipe group is boneless skinless chicken breast at $24.49 from Independent because it is the largest single ingredient cost. The supplied Saskatchewan data includes live observed prices but does not include separate regular-price references, so this table reports the current tracked price and avoids inventing savings percentages. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

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

You should read this table as a priority list for store comparison. The $24.49 chicken breast, $12.99 red onions, and $11.39 lemons are the first items to verify if you are trying to lower a dinner basket. The $1.25 fajita seasoning is still worth noting because it adds flavour at a very low price, but it will not drive the total cost the way protein and produce do. For budget meals in Saskatchewan, your best approach is to compare the biggest line items first, then use low-cost seasoning to keep the recipe from feeling repetitive.

Price Comparison Table: All Recipes Side by Side

Cottage Cheese Crunch Salad Plates are the cheapest recipe in this Saskatchewan comparison at $5.06 per serving, while the full Chicken Salad is the highest-cost option at $7.63 per serving. The middle option is Chicken Fajita Pepper Salad at $6.58 per serving. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

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

If your main goal is the cheapest recipe, you should choose the Cottage Cheese Crunch Salad Plates at $5.06 per serving. If you want chicken while staying below $7 per serving, the Chicken Fajita Pepper Salad is the better fit at $6.58 per serving. If you want the most complete version using every priced ingredient in the basket, the Chicken Salad costs $7.63 per serving. The difference between the cheapest and most expensive recipe is $2.57 per serving, which becomes $25.74 across 10 servings.

How to Use These Prices for a Saskatchewan Grocery Plan

You can use this Saskatchewan recipe costing as a practical meal-planning tool because each dinner is built from the same real ingredient price set. Instead of starting from an abstract recipe and then discovering the checkout cost later, you start with the observed prices: $24.49 chicken breast at Independent, $12.99 red onions at Freshco, $11.39 lemons at Costco Regina, and $9.69 mixed bell peppers at Costco. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

Your first decision is whether chicken is essential for the meal. If it is, compare the $7.63 Chicken Salad and the $6.58 Chicken Fajita Pepper Salad. If it is not, the $5.06 Cottage Cheese Crunch Salad Plates offer the lowest per-serving cost in the article. This is the kind of trade-off that matters when you are planning several dinners at once: you can keep some meals protein-heavy and use lower-cost dairy-and-produce dinners to balance the weekly grocery bill.

Your second decision is whether you want to split your shopping. The cheapest observed ingredient path uses several stores, including Freshco, Independent, Costco Regina, Costco, and FreshCo 33rd St & Avenue. If you already shop at Costco Regina for bulk items, the $11.39 lemons and $9.69 mixed bell peppers can fit naturally into that trip. If you are closer to Freshco, the $12.99 red onions and $5.49 celery sticks are the items to watch there.

Your third decision is portioning. All three recipes are costed at 10 servings, which makes the per-serving numbers easy to compare: $7.63, $6.58, and $5.06. If you cook for fewer people, you can still use the same price logic by thinking in terms of meal-prep portions. The key is to avoid judging a recipe only by the most expensive ingredient; the total basket tells you whether the dinner actually fits your budget.