Quebec Meal Plan: Corn On The Cob $1.49 at IGA

Key Facts

• Corn On The Cob Unpeeled 1 Count is $1.49 at IGA (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, June 2026)
• Pork Tenderloin is $4.40 at Metro (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, June 2026)
• Inside Round Steak is $7.44 at Metro (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, June 2026)
• Chicken & Brown Rice Dinner costs $5.37 per serving (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, June 2026)
• Bunless Burgers cost $6.44 per serving (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, June 2026)

Introduction

A realistic June 2026 weekly meal plan for a Quebec family of four can be built around a $304.94 recipe basket, or about $10.89 per person per day when spread across 28 person-days. The plan uses priced recipes from Maxi, IGA, Metro, and Costco, with standout value coming from Chicken & Brown Rice Dinner at $21.48 total, Bunless Burgers at $25.77 total, and Breakfast Bars at $61.78 for 16 servings. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

For your household, the main value comes from using higher-serving recipes for breakfast and lunch while reserving meat-heavy dishes for dinner. Breakfast Bars cost $3.86 per serving and provide 16 servings, which gives you four family breakfasts if you are feeding four people. Big Salad costs $6.98 per serving but produces 12 servings, making it more useful as a prepared lunch base that can be stretched with leftovers from Chicken & Brown Rice Dinner, Turkey Burgers, or Bunless Burgers.

June is also a practical month to lean into Quebec’s Summer BBQ Season without letting your grocery bill drift upward. IGA has Corn On The Cob Unpeeled 1 Count at $1.49, while Metro has several meat and fish promotions, including Pork Tenderloin at $4.40, Seasoned Pork Tenderloin at $6.93, Inside Round Steak at $7.44, and Thawed Rockfish Fillets at $10.57. If you build your week around those prices rather than around a fixed recipe list, you can keep your meals varied while still shopping with a clear ceiling.

The plan below is designed for a family of four, but you can scale it down by treating the dinner recipes as two-night meals for a smaller household. You should also expect some pantry carryover from ingredients such as Chinese Five Spice, Black Pepper, Sea Salt, Garlic Powder, Onion Powder, Panko, Hoisin Sauce, and Whey Protein. Those items raise the first-week checkout cost, but they are not single-use ingredients if you cook at home regularly.

This Week's Meal Plan

This Quebec weekly meal plan uses seven priced recipes and selected June BBQ deals to organize breakfast, lunch, and dinner for a family of four. The lowest-cost full dinner in the recipe set is Chicken & Brown Rice Dinner at $5.37 per serving, while Turkey Burgers come in at $5.75 per serving and Asian Burgers at $6.33 per serving. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

The schedule below deliberately repeats breakfasts and lunches because that is how many families keep costs predictable. You can make the Breakfast Bars once, portion them into 16 servings, and use them across four mornings. You can also make Big Salad once and use it as a lunch base for three days, adding burger patties, chicken, pork tenderloin slices, or rockfish when you need more protein.

For dinners, the plan rotates through burgers, chicken, pork, and fish so your family is not eating the same protein every night. You will see a slightly higher cost per serving on Chicken & Dressing at $7.67, but that recipe yields six servings and can cover one dinner plus planned leftovers. The lower-cost Chicken & Brown Rice Dinner helps balance the week because it uses Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast at Maxi, Whole Water Chestnuts at Maxi, Cream of Chicken Condensed Soup at Metro, and Instant Rice at IGA.

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

You can treat Saturday and Sunday as flexible BBQ meals because the best Quebec deals are not all packaged as full recipes in the data. Metro’s Pork Tenderloin is $4.40, Metro’s Inside Round Steak is $7.44, and Metro’s Thawed Rockfish Fillets are $10.57. IGA’s Corn On The Cob Unpeeled 1 Count at $1.49 is the simplest vegetable side to add to either dinner, especially if you are grilling.

If you want the most controlled version of the plan, keep the five priced dinner recipes as your core: Chicken & Brown Rice Dinner, Bunless Burgers, Turkey Burgers, Chicken & Dressing, and Asian Burgers. Together, those provide a mix of 4-, 5-, and 6-serving recipes. Your leftovers then become lunches rather than unplanned fridge clutter, which is one of the most reliable ways you can reduce midweek takeout spending.

Complete Grocery List with Prices

The complete grocery list for this Quebec meal plan is anchored by a $304.94 priced recipe basket across Breakfast Bars, Big Salad, Chicken & Brown Rice Dinner, Bunless Burgers, Turkey Burgers, Chicken & Dressing, and Asian Burgers. The basket includes ingredients priced at Maxi, IGA, Metro, Costco, and Canada inc. listings, with per-serving recipe costs ranging from $3.86 to $7.67. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

Your first decision is whether you want to buy every ingredient in the recipe set, or whether you want to use the meal plan as a modular guide. If your pantry already has salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, taco seasoning, bread crumbs, or Chinese Five Spice, your actual checkout will be lower than the full priced basket. If you are starting from a bare pantry, the basket gives you a realistic picture of what it costs to stock the week and keep useful ingredients for later.

Priced recipe basket

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

The $304.94 total is the exact sum of the seven recipe totals: $61.78, $83.72, $21.48, $25.77, $34.49, $46.03, and $31.67. For a family of four, that works out to $10.89 per person per day when divided across seven days and four people. That figure is not meant to imply every person eats exactly the same serving size, but it gives you a useful weekly planning benchmark.

Basket index: staple prices by store

The table below functions as your Quebec basket index for this meal plan. It shows the specific ingredients that drive the week’s costs and the store where each price appears in the June 2026 data. Where a comparable ingredient appears at more than one store, the lower observed price is highlighted in the notes.

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

Metro offers Lean Ground Beef at $9.49, while Maxi charges $10.00 for Lean Ground Beef — a savings of 5.1% using eezly data from June 2026. That does not automatically make Metro the cheapest store for your whole basket, because Maxi carries several of the plan’s core ingredients, including Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast at $15.24, Whole Water Chestnuts at $1.50, Egg Whites at $9.50, Lean Ground Turkey at $10.00, Taco Seasoning Mild at $3.50, and Panko at $5.00. Your best approach is to split the list where the price difference is meaningful, especially if you are already passing those stores.

For produce, Big Salad spreads your shopping across several banners. Radishes are $1.99 at Maxi, Celery is $4.99 at Metro, Shallots Onions are $4.39 at IGA, Spinach is $5.29 at Costco, and Organic Red Tomatoes are $6.59 at IGA. You should avoid assuming that one banner is always cheapest for fresh produce; this week’s list shows useful prices distributed across Maxi, Metro, IGA, and Costco.

Where to Shop for Best Prices

For this Quebec grocery budget meal plan, Maxi is the strongest base store for chicken, turkey, pantry items, and several prepared recipe baskets, while Metro is the most important stop for this week’s meat and fish deals. IGA is the key store for Corn On The Cob Unpeeled 1 Count at $1.49 and several recipe ingredients, including Instant Rice at $3.49 and Quaker Old Fashioned Large Flake Oats at $5.29. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

You should use Maxi for the core family-meal build if you want fewer stops. Maxi carries Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast at $15.24, Whole Water Chestnuts at $1.50, Egg Whites at $9.50, Lean Ground Turkey at $10.00, Taco Seasoning Mild at $3.50, Panko at $5.00, and several spice and pantry items used in the plan. Maxi also anchors several of the priced recipes, including Bunless Burgers, Turkey Burgers, Chicken & Dressing, and Chicken & Brown Rice Dinner.

Metro deserves a separate stop if you are planning a BBQ-focused week. Metro’s June 2026 deals include Pork Tenderloin at $4.40 compared with a regular price of $19.82, Seasoned Pork Tenderloin at $6.93 compared with a regular price of $22.02, Inside Round Steak at $7.44 compared with a regular price of $30.84, and Thawed Rockfish Fillets at $10.57 compared with a regular price of $26.43. These are not small differences; they are the kinds of discounts that can shift your dinner plan for the week.

Top Quebec grocery deals for this meal plan

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

Metro offers Pork Tenderloin at $4.40, while its listed regular price is $19.82 — a savings of 77.8% based on eezly data from June 2026. IGA offers Corn On The Cob Unpeeled 1 Count at $1.49, while its regular price is $4.98 — a savings of 70.1%. Those two products are a natural BBQ pairing for your Saturday dinner, especially if you have lettuce, tomatoes, pickles, and salad vegetables left from earlier in the week.

Costco plays a narrower but still useful role in this plan. Spinach is listed at $5.29 at Costco and Green Onions are listed at $8.19 at Costco in the Big Salad recipe. If you already shop Costco for household staples, those items fit naturally into the plan; if you do not, your best value may come from focusing on Maxi, Metro, and IGA instead of adding another stop for only one or two ingredients.

Quebec has 835 tracked stores in the data set for this province, with active banners including Costco, IGA, Maxi, Metro, Metro Plus, Provigo, Super C, Walmart, Wholesale Club, and Valu-mart. You do not need to visit every banner to make this plan work. Your strongest practical route is Maxi for the recipe backbone, Metro for meat and fish specials, and IGA for corn, oats, rice, tomatoes, and select produce.

Prep Tips & Time Savers

The fastest way to make this Quebec weekly meal plan work is to batch breakfast, wash and chop salad vegetables once, and cook proteins in overlapping sessions. Breakfast Bars take 10 minutes of prep and produce 16 servings, while Big Salad takes 20 minutes of prep and produces 12 servings. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

Start with the Breakfast Bars because they simplify your mornings for most of the week. The priced ingredients are Quaker Old Fashioned Large Flake Oats at $5.29 from IGA, Organic Strawberries 1 LB at $6.49 from Maxi, and Undenatured Isolated Whey Protein Creamy Vanilla at $50.00 from Maxi. The protein powder drives the total cost higher, but it is also the kind of pantry item you will not use up in a single breakfast if your household portions it carefully.

Next, prep your salad components in containers rather than assembling the entire Big Salad at once. Radishes at $1.99 from Maxi, Celery at $4.99 from Metro, Shallots Onions at $4.39 from IGA, Spinach at $5.29 from Costco, Organic Red Tomatoes at $6.59 from IGA, and Seasoned Croutons at $2.00 from Maxi can be stored separately so the greens do not become soggy. You should add sunflower seeds, cranberries, croutons, and dressing only when serving if you want the salad to hold for three lunches.

For dinner, cook your Chicken & Brown Rice Dinner early in the week because it is the lowest-cost priced dinner at $5.37 per serving. You can then use any leftover chicken and rice as a lunch addition the next day. Bunless Burgers and Turkey Burgers should be shaped at the same time, because both rely on ground meat and pantry seasoning; you can refrigerate uncooked patties for the next day or cook them in one session and reheat them gently.

If you are using the Metro BBQ deals, do not overcomplicate the side dishes. Pork Tenderloin at $4.40, Inside Round Steak at $7.44, and Thawed Rockfish Fillets at $10.57 can all be paired with the same produce you are already buying for salad and burgers. IGA corn at $1.49 works as a simple side, while Romaine Lettuce at $3.99 from Metro, Kumato Tomatoes at $6.49 from IGA, and Dill Pickles at $3.50 from Maxi can move between burger plates and salad plates.

You should also separate “meal plan ingredients” from “pantry investments” when evaluating the checkout. Sea Salt at $7.29, Black Pepper at $6.49, Garlic Powder at $6.49, Chinese Five Spice at $6.00, Hoisin Sauce at $9.00, and Whey Protein at $50.00 are not consumed in full during one week in most households. If you already own some of them, your immediate grocery bill will be lower than the full recipe basket.

Finally, use leftovers intentionally. The five priced dinner recipes produce 25 servings before you add Metro pork, rockfish, steak, chorizo, or IGA corn. If your family eats four dinner servings per night, that gives you six full family dinners plus one extra serving, and the BBQ deals can fill the seventh dinner. Your lunch plan then becomes easier because leftovers can reduce your dependence on buying separate deli meats or prepared meals.