Newfoundland and Labrador $3.57 Chicken Dinner

Key Facts

• Chicken & Brown Rice Dinner: $14.28 total. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, June 2026)
• Cost per serving: $3.57 in NL. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, June 2026)
• Breaded Chicken Cutlettes: $7.00 at Dominion. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, June 2026)
• Whole Water Chestnuts: $1.49 at Dominion. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, June 2026)
• Cream of Chicken Soup: $1.50 at Independent. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, June 2026)

Introduction: Chicken & Brown Rice Dinner Is $3.57 Per Serving in Newfoundland and Labrador

According to eezly's real-time tracking of 196,000 products across 2,700 Canadian grocery stores, Chicken & Brown Rice Dinner costs $3.57 per serving in Newfoundland and Labrador as of June 2026. The full four-serving recipe costs $14.28 when priced with Breaded Chicken Cutlettes Chicken Strips at $7.00 from Dominion, Whole Water Chestnuts at $1.49 from Dominion, Condensed Cream of Chicken Soup at $1.50 from Independent, and Instant Rice at $4.29 from Foodland. For you as a Newfoundland and Labrador shopper, that places this recipe firmly in the category of cheap dinner recipes under $4 per serving.

This guide breaks down three budget meals Newfoundland and Labrador households can build from the same priced grocery basket. The hero recipe is Chicken & Brown Rice Dinner because it includes the complete set of priced ingredients and gives you a balanced, no-pork, no-red-meat dinner for four. The two additional recipes use subsets of the same verified ingredients, so every price in this article remains tied to the June 2026 grocery data provided for Dominion, Independent, and Foodland.

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.

Recipe 1: Chicken & Brown Rice Dinner — $3.57 Per Serving

Chicken & Brown Rice Dinner costs $14.28 for four servings, or $3.57 per serving, in Newfoundland and Labrador. The lowest-priced ingredient in the basket is Whole Water Chestnuts at $1.49 from Dominion, while the largest cost driver is Breaded Chicken Cutlettes Chicken Strips at $7.00 from Dominion. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

This is the strongest all-in-one budget dinner in the current dataset because it uses all four priced ingredients and still stays below $4 per serving. You get a simple protein-and-rice meal with a creamy base from the condensed soup and texture from the water chestnuts. For your weekly meal planning, the key advantage is predictability: the full basket adds to $14.28 exactly, so you can cost the meal before you shop.

The recipe is also practical for Newfoundland and Labrador households because the ingredient list is short. You are not buying a long list of spices, sauces, or specialty products to make the dinner work. If your goal is to keep a weeknight meal simple, this basket gives you a chicken-based dinner with four servings and a clear per-person cost.

Ingredients with Prices

The full Chicken & Brown Rice Dinner basket uses four priced ingredients across Dominion, Independent, and Foodland. Dominion accounts for two of the four items, including the $7.00 chicken and $1.49 water chestnuts. Independent supplies the $1.50 Condensed Cream of Chicken Soup, while Foodland supplies the $4.29 Instant Rice.

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

For you, the practical takeaway is that the chicken represents nearly half of the total recipe cost. The $7.00 chicken price is the first number to watch when you are comparing this recipe against other budget meals Newfoundland and Labrador stores offer. If your chicken price changes, the per-serving cost changes more than it would from a small change in the soup or water chestnuts.

Where to Buy Cheapest

For this recipe, your cheapest verified chicken and water chestnuts are both at Dominion, with Breaded Chicken Cutlettes Chicken Strips at $7.00 and Whole Water Chestnuts at $1.49. The soup is priced at $1.50 at Independent, and the rice is priced at $4.29 at Foodland. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

If you want the exact $14.28 recipe cost, you would use this mixed-store basket rather than assuming one banner has every lowest price. Dominion is the anchor store because $8.49 of the basket comes from Dominion items: $7.00 for chicken plus $1.49 for water chestnuts. That does not mean every grocery item is cheapest at Dominion; it means Dominion is the most important stop for this specific recipe basket.

Newfoundland and Labrador shoppers can compare across active banners including Costco, Dominion, Foodland, No Frills, Sobeys, Walmart, Your Independent Grocer, and Wholesale Club. In this particular recipe costing dataset, the verified priced stores are Dominion, Independent, and Foodland. Your best approach is to treat the recipe as a split basket: buy the chicken and water chestnuts at Dominion, the soup at Independent, and the instant rice at Foodland if you are optimizing strictly by the listed prices.

Recipe 2: Creamy Chicken Rice Skillet — $3.20 Per Serving

Creamy Chicken Rice Skillet costs $12.79 for four servings, or $3.20 per serving, when you use Breaded Chicken Cutlettes Chicken Strips at $7.00 from Dominion, Condensed Cream of Chicken Soup at $1.50 from Independent, and Instant Rice at $4.29 from Foodland. This is one of the cheapest recipes in the article because it removes the $1.49 water chestnuts while keeping the chicken, rice, and creamy sauce. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

This version is useful when your priority is a filling dinner rather than extra texture. You still have the same core structure: chicken for protein, rice for the base, and condensed soup for the sauce. By excluding the water chestnuts, your total basket falls from $14.28 to $12.79, which lowers the rounded per-serving cost from $3.57 to $3.20.

For your budget, the difference is modest but measurable. The Creamy Chicken Rice Skillet saves $1.49 per four-serving meal compared with the full Chicken & Brown Rice Dinner basket. That works out to about $0.37 less per serving after rounding, which matters if you repeat the recipe several times in a month.

Ingredients with Prices

The Creamy Chicken Rice Skillet uses three verified grocery items. The $7.00 Dominion chicken remains the biggest cost, followed by the $4.29 Foodland Instant Rice. The $1.50 Condensed Cream of Chicken Soup from Independent is the lowest-priced component in this version.

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

To prepare it as a skillet-style dinner, you would cook the rice, heat the chicken according to package directions, and combine the soup with a small amount of water or cooking liquid to form a sauce. The costing here reflects only the priced grocery items in the dataset, which are the ingredients driving the recipe’s budget profile. For you, this makes the meal easy to compare against takeout, frozen entrées, and other quick weeknight options.

Where to Buy Cheapest

Your lowest verified basket for the Creamy Chicken Rice Skillet is split across Dominion, Independent, and Foodland. Dominion provides the $7.00 chicken, Independent provides the $1.50 soup, and Foodland provides the $4.29 rice. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

If you are trying to reduce store visits, Dominion is still the most important stop because the chicken is the largest line item. However, the $1.50 soup from Independent is a meaningful low-cost component, and the $4.29 rice from Foodland accounts for roughly one-third of the recipe cost. Your cheapest exact version therefore depends on following the item-level prices, not relying on a single-store assumption.

This recipe is a good example of how budget meals Newfoundland and Labrador shoppers can assemble from small price differences. A low-cost pantry-style item such as condensed soup can stretch a higher-cost protein into four servings. When you use the $7.00 chicken across four servings, the chicken portion averages $1.75 per serving before rice and sauce are added.

Recipe 3: Chicken & Water Chestnut Rice Bowls — $3.20 Per Serving

Chicken & Water Chestnut Rice Bowls cost $12.78 for four servings, or $3.20 per serving, using Breaded Chicken Cutlettes Chicken Strips at $7.00 from Dominion, Whole Water Chestnuts at $1.49 from Dominion, and Instant Rice at $4.29 from Foodland. This recipe is the lowest total-cost option in the article by $0.01 compared with the Creamy Chicken Rice Skillet. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

This bowl-style recipe removes the condensed soup and keeps the water chestnuts. The result is slightly less creamy but still built around the same chicken-and-rice base. If you prefer texture and a lighter bowl format, this is the better budget option than the skillet version, and it still rounds to $3.20 per serving.

For your household, the choice between Recipe 2 and Recipe 3 is not mainly about price because the difference is only one cent per full recipe. It is about whether you would rather have the $1.50 soup or the $1.49 water chestnuts. The water chestnut version gives you crunch and keeps two of the three ingredients at Dominion, which may be more convenient if Dominion is already part of your grocery route.

Ingredients with Prices

The Chicken & Water Chestnut Rice Bowls use three priced ingredients and keep the total under $13.00. Dominion supplies both the chicken and water chestnuts, while Foodland supplies the rice. That gives you a two-store basket instead of a three-store basket.

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

This is the simplest low-cost recipe if you want fewer stores and fewer ingredients. You can prepare the instant rice as the base, slice or portion the chicken strips over top, and add the water chestnuts for texture. The costing remains straightforward: $7.00 for chicken, $1.49 for water chestnuts, and $4.29 for rice.

Where to Buy Cheapest

For Chicken & Water Chestnut Rice Bowls, your cheapest verified basket is Dominion for the chicken and water chestnuts, plus Foodland for the instant rice. The two Dominion items total $8.49, while the Foodland rice adds $4.29, bringing the full recipe to $12.78. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

This matters if you are deciding whether an extra stop is worth it. In this recipe, two of the three items are at Dominion, so Dominion is the main shopping stop. Foodland is the secondary stop because the rice price is specific to that banner in the current dataset.

If you are planning several meals, you can use this recipe as the base and decide whether the $1.50 soup from Independent is worth adding back in. Adding the soup turns the bowl into the full Chicken & Brown Rice Dinner-style basket and raises the total from $12.78 to $14.28. That increases the rounded per-serving cost from $3.20 to $3.57.

Price Comparison Table: Three Cheap Dinner Recipes Under $4

All three Newfoundland and Labrador recipes in this guide cost less than $4 per serving, with the cheapest rounded options at $3.20 per serving and the full Chicken & Brown Rice Dinner at $3.57 per serving. The lowest total cost is Chicken & Water Chestnut Rice Bowls at $12.78, while the most complete four-ingredient basket is Chicken & Brown Rice Dinner at $14.28. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

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

The table shows why you should not judge cheap dinner recipes only by the headline ingredient. All three meals use the same $7.00 Dominion chicken, but the supporting ingredients change the final cost. Your lowest total is the bowl recipe at $12.78, but your most rounded dinner is the full Chicken & Brown Rice Dinner at $14.28.

If your goal is the absolute cheapest recipe, choose Chicken & Water Chestnut Rice Bowls. If your goal is a creamier, more casserole-like dinner, choose Creamy Chicken Rice Skillet for one cent more. If your goal is the fullest version with chicken, rice, soup, and water chestnuts, choose Chicken & Brown Rice Dinner at $3.57 per serving.

Newfoundland and Labrador Basket Index: Ingredient Prices by Store

The Newfoundland and Labrador budget basket for these recipes is led by Dominion, with two verified items priced there: $7.00 Breaded Chicken Cutlettes Chicken Strips and $1.49 Whole Water Chestnuts. Independent contributes the $1.50 Condensed Cream of Chicken Soup, while Foodland contributes the $4.29 Instant Rice. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

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

This basket index helps you see which items matter most when you are comparing cheap dinner recipes under $4. The chicken is the dominant cost in every recipe, so your first priority is checking the Dominion chicken price. The rice is the second-largest cost at $4.29 from Foodland, which makes it another important item for your grocery list.

The water chestnuts and soup are both low-cost additions, but they change the character of the meal. The $1.49 water chestnuts add texture, while the $1.50 soup adds sauce and body. Because the two items are only one cent apart, your choice should depend on how you want the dinner to eat rather than on price alone.

Top Priced Ingredients for Budget Meals in Newfoundland and Labrador

The best-priced ingredient in this recipe basket is Whole Water Chestnuts at $1.49 from Dominion, followed closely by Condensed Cream of Chicken Soup at $1.50 from Independent. The highest-priced ingredient is Breaded Chicken Cutlettes Chicken Strips at $7.00 from Dominion. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

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

For your dinner planning, the current price column is the most important part of this table. These are the ingredient prices used to calculate the three recipe totals in this article. Since the dataset provides current prices rather than separate regular prices, the recipe costing focuses on verified shelf-price comparisons rather than promotional savings claims.

You can still use the ranking to make better decisions. The $1.49 water chestnuts and $1.50 soup are inexpensive add-ons that change the meal for a small additional cost. The $7.00 chicken is the item that most affects your final per-serving price, so it deserves the most attention when you compare grocery baskets.

How to Shop These Recipes Across Newfoundland and Labrador Stores

Your best shopping strategy for these recipes is to build a split basket: use Dominion for the $7.00 chicken and $1.49 water chestnuts, Independent for the $1.50 soup, and Foodland for the $4.29 instant rice. This split basket produces the $14.28 Chicken & Brown Rice Dinner and the two $3.20-per-serving variations. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

Newfoundland and Labrador has 57 stores in the provincial dataset, with active grocery banners including Costco, Dominion, Foodland, No Frills, Sobeys, Walmart, Your Independent Grocer, and Wholesale Club. For the specific recipe prices in this guide, the stores with verified ingredient prices are Dominion, Independent, and Foodland. That gives you a practical route for comparing the current basket without making unsupported assumptions about unpriced items.

If you want convenience over strict price optimization, you may choose to buy more of the basket at one store. However, the exact costs in this article come from the item-level store matches listed above. When you want the lowest verified cost, you should follow the ingredient-by-ingredient breakdown rather than substituting prices from memory.

How AI Price Comparison Helps You Cost Dinner Before You Shop

AI-powered grocery price comparison helps you cost dinner before you shop by matching recipe ingredients to current store prices and calculating the per-serving cost. In this Newfoundland and Labrador basket, that means turning four grocery prices — $7.00, $1.49, $1.50, and $4.29 — into a $14.28 recipe and a $3.57 per-serving dinner. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

For you, the benefit is not just finding one cheap item. The benefit is seeing how ingredients work together as a meal. A $7.00 chicken item may look expensive by itself, but when divided across four servings and paired with lower-cost rice, soup, or water chestnuts, the dinner can still come in below $4 per serving.

This is especially useful in Newfoundland and Labrador because your store choices can include Dominion, Foodland, No Frills, Sobeys, Walmart, Your Independent Grocer, Costco, and Wholesale Club. Comparing every item manually is time-consuming. Using recipe-level costing lets you focus on the final dinner price rather than trying to remember individual shelf prices across multiple banners.

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