New Brunswick Cheap Dinner: Seafood Pasta $7.46

Key Facts

• Seafood Pasta costs $59.70 total for 8 servings in New Brunswick. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, June 2026)
• The full Seafood Pasta recipe costs $7.46 per serving. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, June 2026)
• Penne Pasta Meal is priced at $20.90 at Foodland. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, June 2026)
• Value Size FF Shrimp Surimi Salad is priced at $17.90 at IGA. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, June 2026)
• Roasted Red Pepper Alfredo Pasta Sauce is priced at $5.99 at Independent. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, June 2026)
• Silk Whole Next Milk 1.74 L is priced at $7.49 at IGA. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, June 2026)

Introduction: The Cheapest Featured Dinner Is Seafood Pasta at $7.46 Per Serving

Seafood Pasta is the cheapest fully costed dinner in this New Brunswick recipe set at $7.46 per serving. The complete recipe costs $59.70 and serves eight, based on June 2026 prices at Foodland, IGA and Independent. If you are searching for “cheap dinner recipes under $8,” “budget meals New Brunswick,” or “cheapest recipes” using real local grocery prices, this is the strongest fully priced option in the available data.

You should treat this recipe as a practical family-style dinner rather than a minimalist pantry meal. The basket includes pasta, seafood-style salad, Alfredo sauce, two milk products and crab apples, which means the $7.46 serving cost reflects a more complete grocery basket than pasta and sauce alone. For New Brunswick households shopping across Atlantic Superstore, Costco, Foodland, IGA, No Frills, Sobeys, Walmart, Your Independent Grocer, RASS and Wholesale Club, the main lesson is clear: the cheapest recipe depends not only on the recipe, but on which store carries each ingredient at the best tracked price.

Recipe 1: Seafood Pasta — $7.46 Per Serving

Seafood Pasta costs $59.70 total, or $7.46 per serving, for eight servings in New Brunswick. The largest priced item in this basket is Penne Pasta Meal at $20.90 at Foodland, followed by Value Size FF Shrimp Surimi Salad at $17.90 at IGA. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

This is the best complete dinner option when you want a filling pasta-based meal with a seafood-style component and a creamy sauce profile. You are not just buying one protein and one starch; your basket includes the pasta base, the surimi salad, Alfredo sauce, milk items and fruit. Because the recipe serves eight, it is suited to a larger household, meal prep, or a dinner that intentionally creates leftovers for lunch the next day.

For a New Brunswick grocery budget, the $7.46 per-serving figure is most useful when you compare it with prepared meals, restaurant takeout or smaller-format convenience dinners. You can use this recipe when you need a predictable dinner cost before you shop. The key is to buy each ingredient at the store where it is cheapest in the tracked basket rather than assuming one banner will automatically be lowest for every item.

Ingredients with Prices

The complete Seafood Pasta basket is built from six priced ingredients. Penne Pasta Meal is $20.90 at Foodland, making it the highest-priced line item in the recipe. Value Size FF Shrimp Surimi Salad is $17.90 at IGA, and it supplies the seafood-style portion of the dinner. Silk Whole Next Milk 1.74 L is $7.49 at IGA, while Northumberland 1% Partly Skim Chocolate Milk 1 L is $3.69 at IGA.

The sauce component is Roasted Red Pepper Alfredo Pasta Sauce at $5.99 at Independent. Crab Apples are priced at $3.73 at IGA, adding a fruit component to the broader meal basket. Together, these items total $59.70, which divided by eight servings produces the $7.46 per-serving cost used throughout this guide.

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

Where to Buy Cheapest

You get the lowest tracked ingredient prices for this Seafood Pasta basket by splitting your shop between Foodland, IGA and Independent. Foodland carries the Penne Pasta Meal at $20.90, while IGA carries the Value Size FF Shrimp Surimi Salad at $17.90, Silk Whole Next Milk at $7.49, Northumberland 1% Partly Skim Chocolate Milk at $3.69 and Crab Apples at $3.73. Independent carries the Roasted Red Pepper Alfredo Pasta Sauce at $5.99.

Foodland offers Penne Pasta Meal at $20.90, while IGA offers Value Size FF Shrimp Surimi Salad at $17.90 — a difference of $3.00 between the two highest-priced recipe items, though they are different ingredients rather than substitutes. IGA offers Northumberland 1% Partly Skim Chocolate Milk at $3.69, while IGA also offers Silk Whole Next Milk 1.74 L at $7.49 — the dairy and dairy-alternative items differ by $3.80 within the same banner. These comparisons matter because your final dinner cost is shaped by several mid-priced items, not one headline discount.

Recipe 2: Roasted Red Pepper Alfredo Penne — $4.30 Per Serving

Roasted Red Pepper Alfredo Penne costs $34.38 total, or $4.30 per serving, when you price it from Penne Pasta Meal at Foodland, Roasted Red Pepper Alfredo Pasta Sauce at Independent and Silk Whole Next Milk at IGA. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

This second recipe is a lower-cost pasta dinner format using only the pasta, sauce and Silk Whole Next Milk items from the priced New Brunswick basket. It is not the same complete seafood recipe, because it excludes the surimi salad, chocolate milk and crab apples. For your budget, that distinction matters: you reduce the basket from $59.70 to $34.38 by narrowing the meal to a creamy pasta format.

If you are looking for cheap dinner recipes under $5 per serving in New Brunswick, this is the most cost-efficient pasta format in the available ingredient set. The per-serving estimate uses the same eight-serving base as the full pasta recipe, which makes it useful for comparing family dinner formats side by side. You should use this version when your priority is the lowest possible pasta dinner cost from the priced items, rather than the most complete meal basket.

Ingredients with Prices

This simplified recipe uses three priced ingredients. Penne Pasta Meal costs $20.90 at Foodland and remains the largest part of the basket. Roasted Red Pepper Alfredo Pasta Sauce costs $5.99 at Independent, providing the sauce base. Silk Whole Next Milk 1.74 L costs $7.49 at IGA and supports a creamier pasta preparation.

The total ingredient cost is $34.38. Divided across eight servings, the cost comes to $4.30 per serving when rounded to the nearest cent. That makes this recipe format $3.16 less per serving than the complete Seafood Pasta basket, based on the difference between $7.46 and $4.30.

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

Where to Buy Cheapest

You buy the pasta at Foodland, the sauce at Independent and the Silk Whole Next Milk at IGA for this lower-cost recipe format. Foodland offers Penne Pasta Meal at $20.90, while Independent offers Roasted Red Pepper Alfredo Pasta Sauce at $5.99 — the sauce costs 71.3% less than the pasta item when comparing those two specific prices. IGA offers Silk Whole Next Milk at $7.49, which keeps the three-item basket at $34.38.

This recipe shows why you should avoid pricing dinner from memory. A pasta meal can look inexpensive at first glance, but the pasta item itself drives most of the final cost in this dataset. When you compare each ingredient before you shop, you can decide whether the full $59.70 seafood-style meal is worth it or whether the $34.38 Alfredo penne format better fits your weekly grocery plan.

Recipe 3: Surimi Pasta Salad Dinner — $4.85 Per Serving

Surimi Pasta Salad Dinner costs $38.80 total, or $4.85 per serving, using Penne Pasta Meal at Foodland and Value Size FF Shrimp Surimi Salad at IGA. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

This third recipe format is useful if you want the seafood-style component but do not want to buy the full six-item Seafood Pasta basket. The priced basket uses only the two largest recipe items: Penne Pasta Meal at $20.90 and Value Size FF Shrimp Surimi Salad at $17.90. By focusing on these two ingredients, you keep the dinner under $5 per serving while still including the surimi salad item.

For your New Brunswick budget, this is a middle option between the $4.30 Alfredo Penne format and the $7.46 complete Seafood Pasta recipe. You pay $0.55 more per serving than the Alfredo Penne version, but you include the seafood-style salad component. You pay $2.61 less per serving than the full Seafood Pasta recipe because you leave out the sauce, milk items and crab apples.

Ingredients with Prices

The Surimi Pasta Salad Dinner uses two priced ingredients. Penne Pasta Meal is $20.90 at Foodland. Value Size FF Shrimp Surimi Salad is $17.90 at IGA. The total is $38.80, and the eight-serving cost is $4.85 per serving.

This format is especially easy to compare because there are only two items in the basket. Penne Pasta Meal represents 53.9% of the $38.80 total, while Value Size FF Shrimp Surimi Salad represents 46.1%. If you are deciding where your dinner dollars go, this recipe makes the trade-off visible: nearly half of the basket is the seafood-style salad component.

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

Where to Buy Cheapest

You buy the Penne Pasta Meal at Foodland for $20.90 and the Value Size FF Shrimp Surimi Salad at IGA for $17.90. Foodland offers Penne Pasta Meal at $20.90, while IGA charges $17.90 for Value Size FF Shrimp Surimi Salad — the surimi salad costs $3.00 less than the pasta item in this basket. Because both items are major cost drivers, your final dinner price depends heavily on these two store-specific prices.

This is a practical option when you want a budget meal in New Brunswick that stays below $5 per serving without removing the seafood-style element entirely. You should choose it when you value simplicity and want fewer store stops than the full six-item basket. However, if you want the Alfredo sauce and milk components included, you should use Recipe 1 instead and budget for the full $59.70 basket.

Price Comparison Table: All Recipes Side by Side

The lowest-cost dinner format in this comparison is Roasted Red Pepper Alfredo Penne at $4.30 per serving, while the complete Seafood Pasta recipe costs $7.46 per serving. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

The side-by-side table below helps you decide which recipe fits your grocery budget before you shop. If you want the fullest meal basket, Seafood Pasta is the most complete option at $59.70 total. If you want the lowest per-serving cost from the available ingredients, Roasted Red Pepper Alfredo Penne is the best match at $34.38 total. If you want the seafood-style component but fewer add-ons, Surimi Pasta Salad Dinner lands in the middle at $38.80 total.

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

You should use this table as a dinner-planning shortcut. The $4.30 Alfredo Penne option is the strongest answer for “cheap dinner recipes under $5” in this dataset. The $4.85 Surimi Pasta Salad Dinner is still under $5 per serving and adds the seafood-style ingredient. The $7.46 Seafood Pasta recipe is the most complete basket and is the best match when you want the full ingredient set rather than the lowest possible serving cost.

Basket Index: New Brunswick Ingredient Prices by Store

The New Brunswick basket index shows that IGA carries four of the six priced ingredients in the complete Seafood Pasta recipe, while Foodland and Independent each carry one. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

This table is not a substitute table; it is a store-by-store view of the exact priced ingredients used in the recipe costing. You can use it to see which stores matter most for your route. IGA is central to this basket because it carries the surimi salad, Silk Whole Next Milk, Northumberland chocolate milk and crab apples in the tracked data. Foodland matters because the Penne Pasta Meal is the largest single ingredient cost at $20.90, and Independent matters because it carries the Roasted Red Pepper Alfredo Pasta Sauce at $5.99.

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

For your shopping list, this index points to a practical route decision. If you want to minimize the number of store stops, IGA covers most of the unique items in the tracked basket. If you want to match the lowest tracked price for every ingredient, you include Foodland for the pasta and Independent for the sauce. In budget terms, the decision is whether the extra stops are worth matching the exact lowest tracked basket.

Top Priced Items in the Seafood Pasta Basket

The highest-priced item in the Seafood Pasta basket is Penne Pasta Meal at $20.90 at Foodland, followed by Value Size FF Shrimp Surimi Salad at $17.90 at IGA. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

Because regular prices were not included in the provided June 2026 recipe data, this table ranks the available real prices rather than estimating savings from a fabricated regular price. That is the more reliable way to use live grocery data: you should compare the prices you can actually verify. For your budget, the two largest items account for most of the dinner cost, so your best planning decisions start with pasta and surimi salad.

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

This ranking gives you a clearer strategy than simply asking which grocery store is cheapest overall. You should first protect your budget against the biggest line items. In this basket, pasta and surimi salad together represent $38.80 of the $59.70 total, or 65.0% of the full recipe cost. That means even small changes to those two items can matter more than chasing a few cents on smaller add-ons.

How to Use These Prices for Budget Meals in New Brunswick

You can build a New Brunswick pasta dinner for as low as $4.30 per serving from the priced basket, while the complete Seafood Pasta recipe costs $7.46 per serving. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

The most practical way to use this guide is to decide which dinner version matches your week. If your grocery budget is tight, the Roasted Red Pepper Alfredo Penne format gives you the lowest cost among the three recipe formats. If you want seafood-style flavour while keeping the meal under $5 per serving, the Surimi Pasta Salad Dinner gives you a clear middle path. If you are planning a fuller family dinner and want every listed ingredient, the Seafood Pasta recipe is the complete option.

You should also pay attention to store concentration. IGA appears most often in the priced ingredient list, but the single highest ingredient price is at Foodland because that is where the Penne Pasta Meal is tracked. Independent appears only once, but the Roasted Red Pepper Alfredo Pasta Sauce is important if you are making either the full recipe or the Alfredo Penne format. That is why AI-powered grocery price comparison can help you plan the basket rather than relying on a single-store assumption.

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