The honest answer
People ask us what a Shopease order costs and expect one number. There isn't one, and any company that gives you one before they know anything about you is guessing. Here is the real arithmetic, including what our own customers actually pay.
Most households have no idea what their food costs over a year, because it leaves in forty-dollar pieces. The national forecast puts a number on it:
$17,571.79 what the average Canadian family of four is forecast to spend on food in 2026 — about $337.92 a weekOntario is forecast to rise faster than the national average, in the range of four to six per cent. That is not a Shopease number. It is the same figure we print on every customer's food order, because a price only means something next to what you are already paying.
Source: Canada's Food Price Report 2026, Dalhousie University and the Arrell Food Institute.
There is no single Shopease price, because there is no single family.
A retired couple who eat chicken four nights a week and a household of six with three teenagers are not the same customer, and pretending they are is how people end up with a freezer full of food they did not want.
Every order is built item by item with a Food Planner, from your list, around the budget you already spend. So the weekly number lands wherever your family lands. Some orders are modest. Some are several times that. Both are correct, because both were built to the family in front of us.
These are actual orders off our own books. Names left out, everything else exactly as delivered, right down to the weekly payment.
Same company, same food, same guarantees. Two and a half times the difference between the first and the third, because the families are different sizes, eat differently and chose different plan lengths. You can see the shape of it right there: the number follows the household, not a price list.
The single biggest factor. A one or two person household and a family of six are not close, and no amount of clever packaging changes that.
Steak every Friday costs more than chicken thighs and ground beef. Neither is the right answer. Yours is whichever one your family will actually eat, which is why every item is chosen with you rather than pre-packed.
Twelve months of food costs more than six months of food, but it costs less per week spread over the longer term. Most families take twelve. Six exists for the ones who want to try it first.
Freezer space is a real constraint, not a sales opportunity. We build to the freezer you own, or split the order across two deliveries, or supply a chest or upright freezer at our cost. Whichever one is true for you.
A Shopease order is not your entire grocery bill. It covers the meat, the freezer staples and the brand-name pantry items you choose. You will still buy milk, bread and fresh produce. So do not read the weekly payment above as a replacement for that $337.92 — read it as replacing the part of it you currently spend at the meat counter, at a price that does not move.
Whatever your weekly figure turns out to be, it is locked for 36 months from the day you sign, in writing. That is the real difference between this and a grocery budget. The forecast above says food is going up again in 2026. Yours does not.
Alongside it: a 12-month quality guarantee on everything we deliver, and 14 days under our Perfect-Fit Promise to tell us an item is not right for your family and have it replaced.
Take the two-minute survey and we will build a plan from your answers before you ever pick up the phone. Or book a free consult and talk it through with a Food Planner. No pressure, no obligation, and no payment information.
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