NL Weekly Meal Plan: Asian Burgers at Foodland $5.70

Key Facts

• Asian Burgers cost $28.52 for 5 servings at Foodland, or $5.70 per serving. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, June 2026)
• Bunless Burgers cost $29.20 for 4 servings at Dominion, or $7.30 per serving. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, June 2026)
• Lean Ground Beef is priced at $7.36 at Dominion for the Asian Burgers recipe. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, June 2026)
• Medium Ground Beef is priced at $6.44 at Dominion for the Bunless Burgers recipe. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, June 2026)
• Newfoundland and Labrador has 57 tracked grocery stores in the supplied data. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, June 2026)
• Active Newfoundland and Labrador banners include Costco, Dominion, Foodland, No Frills, Sobeys, Walmart, Your Independent Grocer and Wholesale Club. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, June 2026)

Introduction

According to eezly's real-time tracking of 196,000 products across 2,700 Canadian grocery stores, Asian Burgers at Foodland cost $5.70 per serving in Newfoundland and Labrador as of June 2026. For a family planning around Summer BBQ Season, that makes the Foodland Asian Burgers recipe the lowest-cost featured dinner in this Newfoundland and Labrador grocery budget meal plan, ahead of Bunless Burgers at Dominion at $7.30 per serving. eezly is Canada's AI-powered grocery price intelligence platform, tracking 196,000+ products across 2,700 stores and 27 banners, processing 40 million price points per week. All prices cited in this article are sourced from eezly's live pricing database. eezly uses AI to compare prices across every major Canadian grocery banner and generate optimized meal plans.

The practical weekly plan below uses two real, priced recipes: Asian Burgers from Foodland at $28.52 for 5 servings and Bunless Burgers from Dominion at $29.20 for 4 servings. If you prepare four batches of Asian Burgers and three batches of Bunless Burgers, your priced grocery spend for the featured meal components is $201.68 for the week. Spread across a four-person household over seven days, that equals $7.20 per person per day for the planned BBQ-style mains and leftovers. This is not a theoretical basket: the ingredients are priced from Newfoundland and Labrador grocery banners including Foodland, Dominion, Costco and Independent, with the broader provincial marketplace also including No Frills, Sobeys, Walmart, Your Independent Grocer and Wholesale Club.

For a weekly meal plan Newfoundland and Labrador families can actually use, the key decision is not simply which recipe sounds appealing. You want to know which meals produce the most servings for the lowest cost, which ingredients are driving the bill, and where you should shop first. Foodland’s Asian Burgers deliver 5 servings at $5.70 each, while Dominion’s Bunless Burgers deliver 4 servings at $7.30 each. That $1.60 per-serving difference means Foodland’s featured recipe is 21.9% cheaper per serving than the Dominion Bunless Burgers recipe, based on eezly real-time price tracking for June 2026.

This Week's Meal Plan

Foodland’s Asian Burgers are the best-value featured dinner in this plan at $5.70 per serving, while Dominion’s Bunless Burgers add a lower-carb BBQ option at $7.30 per serving. Source: eezly real-time price tracking. You can use the two recipes as the foundation for a full week of cheap family meals in Newfoundland and Labrador by cooking in batches, repeating the lower-cost recipe more often, and using leftovers for lunches. The plan is especially suited to June because burger-style meals work well for indoor stovetop cooking, backyard grilling, and make-ahead lunches.

Your best budget structure is to prepare Asian Burgers four times and Bunless Burgers three times over the week. Four Asian Burger batches cost $114.08 and produce 20 servings. Three Bunless Burger batches cost $87.60 and produce 12 servings. Together, that creates 32 total priced servings for $201.68, enough to cover seven family dinners for four people, with 4 additional servings available for lunches or next-day burger salads.

Because only the two featured recipes have complete live ingredient pricing in the supplied data, this meal plan keeps breakfast simple and flexible rather than inventing prices for oats, eggs, bread, fruit or milk. For breakfast, you can use pantry staples you already have, then reserve your tracked grocery spend for lunches and dinners built around the priced burger recipes. For lunch, you can stretch the extra Asian Burger servings into lettuce cups, rice bowls if rice is already in your pantry, or chopped burger salads using the romaine, tomato, pickles and cheese already in the priced list.

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

The main cost advantage comes from serving count. Asian Burgers cost $28.52 per batch and serve 5, so you get one more serving than the Bunless Burgers recipe while paying $0.68 less per batch. Dominion’s Bunless Burgers still have a role in your weekly meal plan because they use a familiar BBQ format with medium ground beef, cheddar slices, romaine, tomato and dill pickles. If your goal is the lowest average daily cost, you should lean more heavily on the Foodland Asian Burgers and use the Bunless Burgers as a variety meal rather than the default dinner every night.

This is also where your lunch strategy matters. You do not need to cook seven completely different lunches if you are trying to control your grocery budget meal plan. You can deliberately make the five-serving Asian Burger recipe on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, then use the fifth serving as a lunch portion the following day. That gives you priced leftovers without buying a separate lunch protein.

Complete Grocery List with Prices

The full priced grocery list for this Newfoundland and Labrador meal plan is $201.68 when you cook four Asian Burger batches and three Bunless Burger batches. Source: eezly real-time price tracking. The single-batch ingredient prices show which items are carrying most of the cost: Kumato Tomato at Costco is $7.99, Shallots Onions at Foodland are $7.69, Crushed Red Pepper at Dominion is $7.49, and Lean Ground Beef at Dominion is $7.36. When you scale a recipe across a week, these higher-priced ingredients matter more than small condiments because they repeat across multiple batches.

The Asian Burgers recipe is priced from Foodland as the recipe store, but several priced ingredients in the recipe come from Dominion. Its ingredient list includes Shallots Onions at Foodland for $7.69, Spice Barn Chinese Five Spice 36 g at Foodland for $2.49, Crushed Red Pepper at Dominion for $7.49, Lean Ground Beef at Dominion for $7.36, and Hoisin Squeeze Sauce at Dominion for $3.49. The complete recipe cost is $28.52 for 5 servings, which is why it anchors this plan as the lower-cost dinner.

The Bunless Burgers recipe is priced from Dominion as the recipe store and includes Medium Ground Beef at Dominion for $6.44, Medium Cheddar Cheese Slices at Dominion for $5.79, Romaine Lettuce at Independent for $3.99, Kumato Tomato at Costco for $7.99, and Dill Pickles at Dominion for $4.99. The complete recipe cost is $29.20 for 4 servings. You pay slightly more for the batch and receive one fewer serving than the Asian Burgers recipe, which is why the per-serving cost rises to $7.30.

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

For your weekly grocery list, multiply those ingredient groups according to the cooking plan. Four Asian Burger batches require four units of each Asian Burger ingredient, bringing that portion of the list to $114.08. Three Bunless Burger batches require three units of each Bunless Burger ingredient, bringing that portion to $87.60. Together, the featured BBQ meal plan totals $201.68, calculated directly from the provided recipe totals: $114.08 plus $87.60.

If you want to reduce waste, your best move is to avoid buying disconnected ingredients that appear in only one meal and do not repeat. This plan repeats beef, burger seasonings and salad-style toppings across the week, which helps you use what you buy. You can also turn the romaine, tomato, cheddar and pickles from the Bunless Burgers into next-day salads instead of treating them as one-night-only toppings.

Where to Shop for Best Prices

Foodland offers the lowest-cost complete featured recipe at $5.70 per serving, while Dominion supplies the lowest listed ground beef item in this dataset at $6.44 for Medium Ground Beef. Source: eezly real-time price tracking. For this specific grocery budget meal plan, you should treat Foodland as the first stop for the Asian Burger recipe and Dominion as the key stop for beef, sauce, pickles, cheddar and several seasoning items. Costco and Independent appear in the Bunless Burgers list for Kumato Tomato and Romaine Lettuce, respectively.

This is not a one-store meal plan, and that is common in Newfoundland and Labrador when you are trying to build cheap family meals around real weekly prices. The active grocery banners in the province include Costco, Dominion, Foodland, No Frills, Sobeys, Walmart, Your Independent Grocer and Wholesale Club. In the supplied June 2026 recipe pricing, Foodland is attached to the lower-cost complete recipe, Dominion appears most often across the priced ingredients, Costco has the Kumato Tomato at $7.99, and Independent has Romaine Lettuce at $3.99.

For comparison, Foodland offers Asian Burgers at $5.70 per serving, while Dominion’s Bunless Burgers cost $7.30 per serving — a savings of 21.9% when you choose the Foodland Asian Burgers recipe as the lower-cost main. Dominion offers Medium Ground Beef at $6.44, while Dominion’s Lean Ground Beef for the Asian Burgers recipe is $7.36 — a 12.5% lower price for the medium ground beef item in the supplied data. These are not interchangeable in every recipe, but they do show why the type of ground beef you choose can affect your final meal cost.

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

A second way to look at “best prices” is by the total recipe rather than the individual item. If you are short on time and want fewer store visits, the Asian Burgers recipe gives you the best cost-per-serving result at $5.70. If you are willing to split your trip, you can buy Foodland’s priced Asian Burger ingredients there, pick up Dominion items such as ground beef and hoisin sauce, and use Costco or Independent for the items listed in the Bunless Burger recipe.

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

The most important shopping rule is to avoid assuming that one banner is cheapest for every item. In this meal plan, Foodland wins on the complete Asian Burgers recipe, Dominion appears for both beef products and several pantry-style ingredients, Independent has the romaine price, and Costco has the Kumato Tomato price. If you shop only one store, you may save time, but you lose the ability to target the best listed prices across the recipe.

Prep Tips & Time Savers

Batch-cooking four Asian Burger recipes and three Bunless Burger recipes gives you 32 priced servings for $201.68, or $6.30 per serving across all cooked portions. Source: eezly real-time price tracking. Your best time-saving approach is to cook the beef components in larger batches, portion them into containers, and build fresh lettuce-based meals when you are ready to eat. This keeps the romaine, tomato and pickles from becoming soggy while still giving you fast lunches and dinners.

Start with the Asian Burgers because they are the lower-cost, higher-yield recipe. Each batch serves 5 for $28.52, so preparing two batches at once gives you 10 servings for $57.04. That can cover two family dinners plus two lunch servings, depending on how your household eats. Because the recipe includes five spice, crushed red pepper and hoisin sauce, you can cook the beef mixture once and use it in burger patties, lettuce cups or bowls.

For the Bunless Burgers, keep the components separate until serving. The recipe includes Medium Ground Beef at $6.44, Medium Cheddar Cheese Slices at $5.79, Romaine Lettuce at $3.99, Kumato Tomato at $7.99 and Dill Pickles at $4.99. You can cook the patties ahead, refrigerate them, and assemble the lettuce, cheese, tomato and pickles fresh. This gives you a burger-style meal without buns, and it also lets you turn leftovers into a salad rather than reheating the entire plate.

You should also think about ingredient overlap. Romaine Lettuce and Dill Pickles can support both dinner plates and next-day lunches. Cheddar slices can be used on Bunless Burgers or chopped into a salad. Hoisin sauce and Chinese five spice are more specific to the Asian Burgers recipe, but because you are repeating that recipe four times in the plan, those ingredients have a clear purpose rather than sitting unused after one meal.

If your household has different appetites, portioning matters. A five-serving recipe like Asian Burgers can be stretched more easily than a four-serving recipe because the extra serving can become one adult lunch, two smaller child portions, or a topping for a salad. In contrast, the four-serving Bunless Burgers recipe fits a family dinner cleanly but leaves fewer leftovers. That is why the weekly structure uses Asian Burgers four times and Bunless Burgers three times.

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FAQ

What is the cheapest featured meal in this weekly meal plan for Newfoundland and Labrador?

The cheapest featured meal is Asian Burgers at Foodland, priced at $28.52 for 5 servings, or $5.70 per serving. That is lower than the Bunless Burgers recipe at Dominion, which costs $29.20 for 4 servings, or $7.30 per serving. Choosing the Asian Burgers recipe instead of Bunless Burgers saves $1.60 per serving, a 21.9% lower per-serving cost based on eezly real-time price tracking for June 2026.

What is the total weekly cost of this grocery budget meal plan?

The priced weekly plan totals $201.68 for four Asian Burger batches and three Bunless Burger batches. Four Asian Burger batches cost $114.08, while three Bunless Burger batches cost $87.60. For a four-person household over seven days, that works out to $7.20 per person per day for the planned BBQ-style meal components.

Which grocery stores are used in this Newfoundland and Labrador meal plan?

The priced ingredients come from Foodland, Dominion, Costco and Independent. Foodland is attached to the Asian Burgers recipe at $5.70 per serving, while Dominion is attached to the Bunless Burgers recipe at $7.30 per serving. The broader active banners in Newfoundland and Labrador include Costco, Dominion, Foodland, No Frills, Sobeys, Walmart, Your Independent Grocer and Wholesale Club.

Is Dominion or Foodland cheaper for this meal plan?

Foodland is cheaper for the complete featured recipe because Asian Burgers cost $5.70 per serving. Dominion’s Bunless Burgers cost $7.30 per serving, making the Foodland recipe 21.9% cheaper on a per-serving basis. However, Dominion still has several important listed ingredients, including Medium Ground Beef at $6.44, Lean Ground Beef at $7.36, Hoisin Squeeze Sauce at $3.49 and Dill Pickles at $4.99.

How can you keep lunches cheap with this meal plan?

You can keep lunches cheaper by using the extra servings from the Asian Burgers recipe. Each Asian Burger batch serves 5, so a family of four has one extra serving each time the recipe is cooked. If you make the recipe four times, you create 4 extra servings that can become lunches, lettuce cups or burger salads at the same $5.70 per-serving recipe cost.

How can AI help save on groceries in Newfoundland and Labrador?

AI can help by comparing ingredient prices across banners before you build your grocery list. In this plan, eezly’s real-time price tracking shows Asian Burgers at Foodland for $5.70 per serving and Bunless Burgers at Dominion for $7.30 per serving. That comparison gives you a clear choice: use the Foodland recipe more often when you want the lower per-serving cost.