Quebec Weekly Meal Plan: BBQ Meals from $6.33

Key Facts

• Asian Burgers cost $31.67 for 5 servings, or $6.33 per serving, using Quebec grocery prices. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, June 2026)
• Bunless Burgers cost $25.77 for 4 servings, or $6.44 per serving, using Quebec grocery prices. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, June 2026)
• Lean Ground Beef is priced at $9.49 at Metro for the Asian Burgers recipe. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, June 2026)
• Lean Ground Beef is priced at $10.00 at Maxi for the Bunless Burgers recipe. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, June 2026)
• Marble Cheddar Cheese is priced at $1.79 at Metro for the Bunless Burgers recipe. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, June 2026)
• Sauce Hoisin is priced at $9.00 at Maxi for the Asian Burgers recipe. (Source: eezly real-time price tracking, June 2026)

Introduction

Asian Burgers are the lowest-cost featured dinner in this Quebec weekly meal plan at $6.33 per serving, while Bunless Burgers cost $6.44 per serving. The full priced recipe set totals $57.44 for 9 servings, using $31.67 for Asian Burgers and $25.77 for Bunless Burgers. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

If you are building a weekly meal plan in Quebec for June 2026, the most useful strategy is to anchor your dinners around recipes where the main protein, produce and condiments are already priced across major local banners. In this plan, your two core summer BBQ meals are both burger-based, but they serve different roles in your grocery budget. The Bunless Burgers recipe is a lower-carb, salad-friendly dinner built with lean ground beef, cheddar, romaine, tomatoes and pickles. The Asian Burgers recipe stretches to 5 servings and uses flavour-building pantry items such as Chinese five spice, crushed red pepper and hoisin sauce.

For a four-person household, the two recipes cover 9 dinner servings, which can mean two full family dinners plus one extra lunch portion. Your average cost across the priced servings is $6.38 per serving, calculated from the two recipe totals above. If you assign those 9 servings across the week, you can use leftovers for lunches and keep breakfasts simple with pantry staples you already keep at home. Because the provided live price data is strongest for the BBQ recipes, this guide treats the priced meals as the costed core of your weekly grocery budget rather than inventing prices for breakfast items not included in the data.

The major decision for your shopping trip is not just what to cook, but where to buy each ingredient. Metro offers Marble Cheddar Cheese at $1.79 and Lean Ground Beef at $9.49 in the Asian Burgers recipe, while Maxi offers Lean Ground Beef at $10.00 for Bunless Burgers, Chinese Five Spice at $6.00, Crushed Red Pepper at $2.79, Sauce Hoisin at $9.00 and Dill Pickles at $3.50. IGA is used for Shallots Onions at $4.39 and Kumato Tomatoes at $6.49. Those store-by-store differences matter when you are trying to keep your Quebec grocery budget meal plan predictable.

This Week's Meal Plan

This Quebec weekly meal plan uses Asian Burgers at $6.33 per serving and Bunless Burgers at $6.44 per serving as the priced dinner anchors for a summer BBQ week. The two recipes provide 9 total servings for $57.44, allowing you to plan two family dinners and at least one leftover lunch without adding unverified grocery costs. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

The most practical way to use this plan is to reserve the fully priced recipes for the meals where your grocery bill usually rises fastest: dinner and next-day lunches. You can keep breakfast flexible by using staples already in your kitchen, then apply your grocery budget to the priced ingredients that make up your BBQ meals. This approach is especially useful in June, when families in Quebec often want simple, grill-friendly meals without letting the weekly shop become a long list of impulse items.

The daily breakdown below treats the recipe prices as the verified cost centre of the week. Where a breakfast or lunch is based on leftovers, the cost per serving refers to the recipe serving cost already captured in the priced meal. Where the meal is a pantry-based breakfast, the table marks it as not priced because the provided ingredient data does not include cereal, eggs, oats, milk or bread prices. That avoids the common budgeting mistake of mixing verified live prices with assumptions.

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

For your actual week, you can adjust the dinner order depending on your schedule. The Bunless Burgers take 20 minutes of prep time and are well suited to a night when you can assemble lettuce, tomato, cheese and pickles at the table. The Asian Burgers take 10 minutes of prep time, making them the faster option when you want a short cooking window. If you cook the Asian Burgers earlier in the week, you also get more value from pantry-style flavour ingredients such as Chinese Five Spice and Sauce Hoisin because they can carry into leftover bowls.

You should also think of each dinner as a planned lunch engine. A four-serving Bunless Burger recipe can cover one family dinner, or it can cover two adult dinners plus two next-day lunches. A five-serving Asian Burger recipe gives you one extra serving beyond a four-person dinner, which is useful for a work lunch or a teen’s reheated meal. That extra serving is one reason Asian Burgers edge out Bunless Burgers on cost per serving in the priced data.

Complete Grocery List with Prices

The complete priced grocery list for this Quebec BBQ meal plan totals $57.44 across 10 listed ingredient purchases, split between Maxi, Metro and IGA. The largest single priced item is Lean Ground Beef at $10.00 at Maxi for Bunless Burgers, while the lowest priced item is Marble Cheddar Cheese at $1.79 at Metro. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

Your grocery list should be organized by store because the cheapest route is not the same as buying every item in one place. For Bunless Burgers, your basket includes Lean Ground Beef at Maxi, Marble Cheddar Cheese and Romaine Lettuce at Metro, Kumato Tomatoes at IGA and Dill Pickles at Maxi. For Asian Burgers, your basket includes Shallots Onions at IGA, Chinese Five Spice at Maxi, Crushed Red Pepper at Maxi, Lean Ground Beef at Metro and Sauce Hoisin at Maxi.

This itemized approach gives you a cleaner view of what each recipe actually costs. It also helps you decide whether a multi-store shop is worthwhile for your household. If you already pass a Maxi and a Metro on your commute, splitting the list may be easy. If you are shopping with limited time, you may choose the store that carries the largest share of the basket and accept that the full recipe cost is built from more than one banner.

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

The ingredient list also shows why recipe-level pricing is more useful than looking only at the protein. Lean Ground Beef is a major cost in both meals, but condiments and produce shape the final serving cost. In the Bunless Burgers recipe, Kumato Tomatoes at $6.49 at IGA cost more than Romaine Lettuce and Dill Pickles combined. In the Asian Burgers recipe, Sauce Hoisin at $9.00 at Maxi is nearly as expensive as the $9.49 Lean Ground Beef at Metro.

For your grocery budget meal plan, that means you should protect high-impact ingredients from waste. Use all the romaine in lettuce cups, chopped salads and burger plates. Slice the Kumato Tomatoes for dinner, then dice leftovers into lunch bowls. Keep pickles and hoisin visible in the fridge so they become part of later meals instead of disappearing behind larger containers.

Where to Shop for Best Prices

Metro offers Lean Ground Beef at $9.49 for the Asian Burgers recipe, while Maxi lists Lean Ground Beef at $10.00 for the Bunless Burgers recipe — a difference of $0.51, or about 5.1% lower at Metro for the listed beef items. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

Your best shopping route depends on whether you prioritize the cheapest single ingredient, the fewest stops or the best match for each recipe. Metro is important in this plan because it carries the $9.49 Lean Ground Beef used in Asian Burgers, the $1.79 Marble Cheddar Cheese used in Bunless Burgers and the $3.99 Romaine Lettuce used in Bunless Burgers. Maxi is important because it supplies five listed items: Lean Ground Beef, Dill Pickles, Chinese Five Spice, Crushed Red Pepper and Sauce Hoisin. IGA supplies the produce items that appear in the recipe data: Shallots Onions at $4.39 and Kumato Tomatoes at $6.49.

If you shop at only one banner, you may not reproduce the exact recipe totals shown here because the provided prices are itemized across stores. If you shop across Maxi, Metro and IGA, you can align more closely with the live-priced basket. For families in Quebec, that kind of split shop can make sense when the stores are near each other or when you combine grocery shopping with other errands. It is less useful if the travel time or transportation cost outweighs the ingredient differences.

Basket Index: Staple Ingredient Price Comparison

The basket index below compares key ingredients where the provided data identifies the store and price. Because this is a recipe-based basket rather than a full pantry survey, the table focuses on the ingredients that directly shape the two BBQ meals. The comparison is especially helpful for seeing which banner contributes the most items to your meal plan.

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

Metro’s strongest role in the basket is value on core burger components. You get the lowest listed beef price in the data at Metro for the Asian Burgers recipe, along with the lowest overall ingredient in the data, Marble Cheddar Cheese at $1.79. Maxi’s role is broader: it is the main stop for seasonings and condiments, including Chinese Five Spice at $6.00, Crushed Red Pepper at $2.79 and Sauce Hoisin at $9.00. IGA’s role is concentrated in produce, with Shallots Onions and Kumato Tomatoes.

Top Priced Opportunities in This Meal Plan

Asian Burgers at $6.33 per serving cost $0.11 less per serving than Bunless Burgers at $6.44, which is about 1.7% lower on a per-serving basis. Metro offers Lean Ground Beef at $9.49, while Maxi’s listed Lean Ground Beef is $10.00 — a savings of about 5.1% when you use the Metro-listed beef price. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

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

The most concrete like-for-like comparison in the provided data is ground beef. Metro offers Lean Ground Beef at $9.49, while Maxi lists Lean Ground Beef at $10.00 — a savings of $0.51, or about 5.1%, if the Metro item fits your recipe needs. The recipe-level comparison is also useful: Asian Burgers cost $6.33 per serving, while Bunless Burgers cost $6.44 per serving, a difference of $0.11 per serving. That difference is modest, but across a full week it reinforces why the five-serving Asian Burger recipe is useful for leftovers.

For more current store-level comparisons, you can also check eezly’s deal and meal planning pages while building your grocery list: https://eezly.com/deals, https://eezly.com/meal-plans and https://eezly.com/recipes. If Maxi is one of your regular stores, the store page at https://eezly.com/stores/maxi can help you review relevant pricing before you finalize your route. These links are most useful when you already know your recipe plan and want to verify which banner is currently strongest for the ingredients you need.

Prep Tips & Time Savers

The fastest recipe in this Quebec weekly meal plan is Asian Burgers at 10 minutes of prep time, while Bunless Burgers require 20 minutes of prep time. If you cook both recipes in the same week, you can prepare 9 servings of BBQ-style meals with a combined listed recipe cost of $57.44. Source: eezly real-time price tracking.

Your best time-saving move is to prep the vegetables once and use them across both dinner and lunch. Wash and chop the Romaine Lettuce from Metro after you get home, then store it with a paper towel in a sealed container. Slice the Kumato Tomatoes from IGA for the first Bunless Burger dinner and dice any remaining tomato for lunch bowls. Keep the Dill Pickles from Maxi in a front-facing fridge spot so you can add acidity to leftover plates without needing another sauce.

The second useful move is to batch-cook the beef while keeping the seasonings separate. Because the Bunless Burgers and Asian Burgers have different flavour profiles, you can form patties at the same time but season them differently before cooking. Use the Chinese Five Spice, Crushed Red Pepper and Sauce Hoisin for the Asian Burgers, then keep the Bunless Burgers simpler with cheddar, romaine, tomatoes and pickles. This lets you avoid flavour fatigue while still benefiting from one cooking session.

If your week is busy, cook the Asian Burgers first. They have the lower per-serving cost at $6.33 and the shorter prep time at 10 minutes. The fifth serving gives you a built-in lunch, and the hoisin-based flavour works well in bowls or lettuce wraps the next day. Save the Bunless Burgers for a night when you want a more assembled meal and can put the romaine, cheddar, tomatoes and pickles on the table family-style.

You can also use a “two-container” leftover system. Put cooked patties in one container and fresh toppings in another. That keeps lettuce crisp and tomatoes from softening the burger mixture. For your lunch the next day, reheat the patty separately, then add romaine, tomato and pickles after heating. This simple separation protects the ingredients you paid for and improves the quality of your leftovers.

Finally, avoid opening every condiment at once unless you know how you will use it again. Sauce Hoisin is priced at $9.00 at Maxi, and Chinese Five Spice is priced at $6.00 at Maxi, so you should plan at least one follow-up use. You can use hoisin in a stir-fry-style bowl with leftover beef, or mix a small amount into a dipping sauce. You can use Chinese Five Spice sparingly in marinades, burger patties or roasted vegetables if they are already part of your regular pantry.