Newfoundland and Labrador Meal Plan: $5.70 Burgers

Key Facts

• Asian Burgers cost $28.52 for 5 servings, or $5.70 per serving at Foodland. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, June 2026)
• Bunless Burgers cost $29.20 for 4 servings, or $7.30 per serving at Dominion. (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 Bunless Burgers. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, June 2026)
• Romaine Lettuce is priced at $3.99 at Independent for the Bunless Burgers recipe. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, June 2026)
• Newfoundland and Labrador has 57 tracked grocery stores across banners including Costco, Dominion, Foodland, No Frills, Sobeys, Walmart, Your Independent Grocer and Wholesale Club. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, June 2026)

Introduction: A Newfoundland and Labrador BBQ Meal Plan Built Around $5.70 Servings

Asian Burgers at Foodland cost $5.70 per serving, while Bunless Burgers at Dominion cost $7.30 per serving. Source: eezly real-time price tracking. For your weekly meal plan in Newfoundland and Labrador, the most efficient approach is to use the Asian Burgers recipe as the anchor dinner because it provides 5 servings for $28.52. You can then use Bunless Burgers as a second summer BBQ meal at $29.20 for 4 servings, especially if your household prefers a lower-carb plate built around lettuce, tomato, cheese, pickles and beef.

For a family of four, this two-recipe plan covers 9 dinner-sized servings at a combined tracked recipe cost of $57.72. Spread across those 9 servings, the average cost is $6.41 per serving, based only on the two complete recipes priced in the data. If you use the extra Asian Burger serving as one lunch portion, your household gets a practical BBQ-style weekly structure without needing to price speculative ingredients that are not in the current dataset. This is the safest way to build cheap family meals in Newfoundland and Labrador using real prices rather than generic national averages.

The weekly cost for the priced dinners in this Newfoundland and Labrador meal plan is $57.72, or $14.43 per person for a family of four across the two main dinners. If you divide that same $57.72 across seven days for a four-person household, the priced dinner component works out to $2.06 per person per day. That figure is not a full week of groceries; it is the real-cost foundation for the main BBQ meals in this plan, built from ingredient prices currently tracked at Dominion, Foodland, Costco and Independent.

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.

This Week's Meal Plan: Use Asian Burgers as the Lower-Cost Anchor

Asian Burgers are the lowest-cost complete recipe in this plan at $5.70 per serving, compared with Bunless Burgers at $7.30 per serving. Source: eezly real-time price tracking. You should schedule Asian Burgers early in the week because the recipe makes 5 servings, giving a four-person household one extra portion that can become lunch the next day. Bunless Burgers fit best later in the week, when you want a fast 20-minute BBQ-style dinner with fresh vegetables and cheese.

This weekly meal plan Newfoundland and Labrador families can use is intentionally structured around realistic summer eating. In June, you may want meals that can be cooked quickly, served outdoors, and stretched into leftovers without adding complicated pantry assumptions. The plan below uses the two fully priced recipes as the costed backbone, then keeps breakfast and some lunches simple by treating them as household staples rather than inventing unsupported prices.

Because only two complete recipes are priced in the provided data, the table clearly separates priced meals from flexible meals. That matters for your grocery budget because it keeps the article’s cost claims accurate. You can use the priced dinners as the firm portion of your weekly grocery plan, then fill in breakfast and unpriced lunches with staples already in your kitchen, flyer items, or store-brand basics at the same banners.

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

For your cheapest priced dinner night, choose Asian Burgers at $5.70 per serving. For your higher-produce, bunless plate, choose Bunless Burgers at $7.30 per serving. The difference is $1.60 per serving, which means a four-person dinner costs $6.40 more when you choose Bunless Burgers instead of Asian Burgers. Foodland offers the Asian Burgers recipe at $5.70 per serving, while Dominion’s Bunless Burgers recipe is $7.30 per serving — a savings of 21.9% per serving when you choose Asian Burgers, based on eezly data for June 2026.

Complete Grocery List with Prices: What You Need to Buy

The complete priced grocery list for this Newfoundland and Labrador BBQ meal plan totals $57.72 across the two featured recipes. Source: eezly real-time price tracking. You should treat this list as your costed shopping core for the week, then add household staples only as needed. The priced list includes beef, produce, cheese, pickles, seasoning and sauce from Dominion, Foodland, Costco and Independent.

The Bunless Burgers ingredient list is more produce-heavy and includes Medium Ground Beef at $6.44 from Dominion, Medium Cheddar Cheese Slices at $5.79 from Independent, Romaine Lettuce at $3.99 from Independent, Kumato Tomato at $7.99 from Costco and Dill Pickles at $4.99 from Independent. That brings the complete Bunless Burgers recipe to $29.20 for 4 servings. Your cost per serving is $7.30, which is higher than the Asian Burgers recipe but gives you a plate that includes lettuce, tomato, pickles and cheese.

The Asian Burgers list includes Shallots Onions at $7.69 from Foodland, Spice Barn Chinese Five Spice 36 g at $2.49 from Foodland, Crushed Red Pepper at $7.49 from Dominion, Lean Ground Beef at $7.36 from Dominion and Hoisin Squeeze Sauce at $3.49 from Dominion. The complete recipe costs $28.52 for 5 servings, or $5.70 per serving. You get the better cost per serving from this recipe because the total cost is slightly lower than Bunless Burgers while producing one additional serving.

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

If you want to simplify your trip, you can cluster the list by store. Dominion is important because it carries Medium Ground Beef at $6.44, Lean Ground Beef at $7.36, Crushed Red Pepper at $7.49 and Hoisin Squeeze Sauce at $3.49. Independent is useful for Medium Cheddar Cheese Slices at $5.79, Romaine Lettuce at $3.99 and Dill Pickles at $4.99. Foodland supplies Shallots Onions at $7.69 and Spice Barn Chinese Five Spice 36 g at $2.49, while Costco supplies Kumato Tomato at $7.99.

Where to Shop for Best Prices: Dominion, Foodland, Independent and Costco Each Matter

Foodland offers the lowest complete recipe cost per serving in this plan at $5.70 for Asian Burgers, while Dominion’s Bunless Burgers cost $7.30 per serving. Source: eezly real-time price tracking. You should not assume one Newfoundland and Labrador banner wins the entire basket, because the best-priced meal plan uses multiple stores. Dominion is strong for beef and sauces in this dataset, Foodland contributes the Asian Burger recipe pricing, Independent carries several Bunless Burger toppings, and Costco appears for Kumato Tomato.

For your grocery budget meal plan, the practical question is not only which store has the cheapest single ingredient. It is which store combination gives you the lowest complete meals. In this dataset, Foodland offers the stronger recipe-level value because Asian Burgers cost $28.52 for 5 servings. Dominion is still essential because several priced ingredients come from Dominion, including Medium Ground Beef at $6.44, Lean Ground Beef at $7.36, Crushed Red Pepper at $7.49 and Hoisin Squeeze Sauce at $3.49.

Newfoundland and Labrador has 57 tracked grocery stores in this dataset across active banners including Costco, Dominion, Foodland, No Frills, Sobeys, Walmart, Your Independent Grocer and Wholesale Club. You should use that banner variety to your advantage by checking recipe-level costs rather than shopping from habit. If you are planning cheap family meals Newfoundland and Labrador households can repeat throughout BBQ season, the most useful habit is comparing the full recipe cost per serving before deciding where to buy.

Basket Index: Staple Ingredients in This BBQ Plan

Medium Ground Beef at Dominion is priced at $6.44, while Lean Ground Beef at Dominion is priced at $7.36. Source: eezly real-time price tracking. You can use the basket index below to see which ingredients drive your BBQ meal costs. The highest listed item is Kumato Tomato at $7.99 from Costco, while the lowest listed item is Spice Barn Chinese Five Spice 36 g at $2.49 from Foodland.

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

Top Priced Picks for This Week’s Meal Plan

Asian Burgers at $5.70 per serving cost 21.9% less per serving than Bunless Burgers at $7.30 per serving. Source: eezly real-time price tracking. In the table below, the “comparison price” column uses the closest available benchmark from the provided data, not an invented regular price. For complete recipes, the comparison is the higher-cost Bunless Burgers serving price. For individual products, where no regular price is supplied, the comparison price is the same tracked price and the savings percentage is listed as 0.0%.

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

Prep Tips & Time Savers: Cook Once, Stretch the BBQ Flavour

Asian Burgers take 10 minutes of prep time and Bunless Burgers take 20 minutes, making both recipes practical for weeknight summer cooking. Source: eezly real-time price tracking. You should use the shorter prep recipe, Asian Burgers, on your busiest evening and reserve Bunless Burgers for a night when you have more time to wash lettuce, slice tomato, portion cheese and set out pickles. That simple scheduling decision can make your weekly meal plan easier to follow.

For the Asian Burgers, you can group the flavour ingredients together as soon as you unpack groceries. Keep the Shallots Onions from Foodland, Spice Barn Chinese Five Spice from Foodland, Crushed Red Pepper from Dominion and Hoisin Squeeze Sauce from Dominion in one section of your fridge or pantry. When dinner time arrives, your only major fresh-protein step is preparing the Lean Ground Beef from Dominion. This reduces the chance that a sauce or spice gets missed and helps you protect the value of the $28.52 recipe.

For Bunless Burgers, your time saver is vegetable preparation. Wash and dry the Romaine Lettuce from Independent, portion the Medium Cheddar Cheese Slices from Independent, and keep Dill Pickles from Independent ready for serving. The Kumato Tomato from Costco is the highest-priced individual ingredient in the Bunless Burgers list at $7.99, so you should plan to use it fully rather than letting part of it go soft in the fridge. The Medium Ground Beef from Dominion at $6.44 is the core of the meal, but the toppings are what make the bunless format feel complete.

You can also prep both recipes around your cooking equipment. If you grill, cook patties for one meal and shape the next batch while the grill is hot, then refrigerate uncooked patties safely for the next scheduled dinner. If you cook indoors, form the patties in advance and place parchment between layers. Your goal is to reduce weeknight friction so you actually use the groceries you bought at Dominion, Foodland, Independent and Costco.

Because Asian Burgers make 5 servings, you should deliberately assign the fifth serving before the week starts. If you do not plan it, the extra portion may disappear as an untracked snack or sit unused. The best budget move is to turn that fifth serving into one next-day lunch, which gives you a priced lunch component at $5.70. For a household trying to control grocery costs in Newfoundland and Labrador, assigning leftovers is one of the simplest ways to make a meal plan work in real life.

How to Use This Grocery Budget Meal Plan in Newfoundland and Labrador

The most cost-efficient path in this plan is to prioritize Asian Burgers at $5.70 per serving and use Bunless Burgers at $7.30 per serving as a second BBQ-style dinner. Source: eezly real-time price tracking. You should build your list around the priced ingredients first, then add only the staples your household actually needs. This keeps your grocery budget meal plan grounded in real store prices rather than broad estimates.

If you are shopping in St. John’s, Mount Pearl, Corner Brook, Gander or another Newfoundland and Labrador community with access to these banners, your best approach is to compare store-level pricing before you leave home. The current data includes Dominion, Foodland, Costco and Independent prices for the core recipe ingredients. It also identifies active provincial banners such as No Frills, Sobeys, Walmart, Your Independent Grocer and Wholesale Club, which gives you room to compare alternatives for pantry items and household staples.

For a family of four, you can plan two fully priced dinners for $57.72 total using the complete recipes in this guide. You get 9 total servings from those two recipes, which creates one extra serving beyond two four-person dinners. If you repeat the lower-cost Asian Burgers more often than Bunless Burgers, your per-serving dinner cost stays closer to $5.70 than $7.30. That is the main budget lever in this Newfoundland and Labrador meal plan.

You should also keep the ingredient mix in mind when choosing between the two recipes. Bunless Burgers include more fresh topping components, which can be useful if your family wants a salad-like dinner with lettuce, tomato and pickles. Asian Burgers rely more on flavour builders such as Chinese five spice, crushed red pepper and hoisin sauce. If your household already has some condiments or spices, you may be able to stretch future meals further, but the prices in this guide reflect the full tracked recipe costs provided for June 2026.

FAQ

Q: What is the cheapest grocery store in Newfoundland and Labrador for this weekly meal plan?
A: For the two complete recipes in this Newfoundland and Labrador meal plan, Foodland has the lowest cost per serving because Asian Burgers are priced at $5.70 per serving. Dominion’s Bunless Burgers are priced at $7.30 per serving. Foodland offers Asian Burgers at $5.70, while Dominion’s Bunless Burgers cost $7.30 — a savings of 21.9% per serving when you choose the Foodland-priced Asian Burgers, based on eezly real-time price tracking for June 2026.

Q: What is the cheapest family dinner in this Newfoundland and Labrador meal plan?
A: The cheapest complete family dinner in this plan is Asian Burgers at $28.52 for 5 servings, or $5.70 per serving, based on Foodland pricing. Bunless Burgers cost $29.20 for 4 servings, or $7.30 per serving, based on Dominion recipe pricing. If you are feeding four people, Asian Burgers also leave one extra serving that can be used for lunch the next day.

Q: How much does this weekly meal plan cost for a family of four?
A: The two fully priced BBQ dinners in this weekly meal plan cost $57.72 combined. That total comes from Asian Burgers at $28.52 and Bunless Burgers at $29.20. For a family of four, the two dinners provide 8 dinner portions plus one additional Asian Burger serving, giving you 9 total servings at an average of $6.41 per serving.

Q: What are cheap family meals in Newfoundland and Labrador for June 2026?
A: Based on the available recipe prices, Asian Burgers are the stronger cheap family meal option at $5.70 per serving. Bunless Burgers are still a practical summer BBQ meal at $7.30 per serving, especially if your family wants lettuce, tomato, cheese and pickles included in the plate. Both recipes use real prices from Newfoundland and Labrador stores including Foodland, Dominion, Independent and Costco.

Q: Which ingredients should I buy at Dominion for this plan?
A: Dominion is listed for several key ingredients in this meal plan. You can buy Medium Ground Beef for $6.44, Lean Ground Beef for $7.36, Crushed Red Pepper for $7.49 and Hoisin Squeeze Sauce for $3.49. Those Dominion items support both the Bunless Burgers and Asian Burgers recipes in the June 2026 Newfoundland and Labrador price data.

Q: How can AI help save on groceries in Newfoundland and Labrador?
A: AI can help you compare complete recipe costs rather than looking only at individual shelf prices. In this plan, the important insight is that Asian Burgers cost $5.70 per serving while Bunless Burgers cost $7.30 per serving, so choosing the Asian Burgers saves 21.9% per serving. eezly’s real-time tracking compares prices across 196,000 products, 2,700 Canadian stores and 27 Canadian grocery banners, helping you identify lower-cost meal options using current data.

Q: Is this a full seven-day grocery budget meal plan?
A: This is a seven-day meal planning guide built around two fully priced BBQ recipes. The priced portion totals $57.72 for Asian Burgers and Bunless Burgers combined, covering 9 recipe servings. Breakfasts and some lunches are left flexible because the provided data only includes the two complete recipes and their ingredients; the costed recommendation is to use Asian Burgers at $5.70 per serving and Bunless Burgers at $7.30 per serving as your main dinner anchors.