The honest answer
People ask what a Shopease order costs and expect one number. There isn’t one, because it depends on your family. Here’s the arithmetic, including what our own customers 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. That’s $337.92 a week.The same report forecasts food prices across Canada rising four to six per cent in 2026, and it lists Ontario among the provinces expected to rise faster than the national average. Those are the report’s figures, not ours. We show them because a price only means something next to what you’re already paying.
Source: Canada's Food Price Report 2026, Dalhousie University with the University of Guelph and other partner universities.
There’s no single Shopease price, because there’s no single family.
A retired couple who eat chicken four nights a week and a household of six with three teenagers aren’t the same customer, and pretending they are is how people end up with a freezer full of food they didn’t 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 sold, right down to the payment.
The largest is more than five times the smallest, because the households are different sizes and eat differently. The number follows the family.
The first one is worth a second look. That household paid for the year up front, and it works out to about twenty-nine dollars a week. That’s a little under a tenth of what the national forecast says an average family of four spends on food. It’s a smaller plan for a smaller household, and it’s a real order we sold in August 2026. If you’ve been assuming this is only for big families with big budgets, that’s the number that says otherwise.
The single biggest factor. A one- or two-person household and a family of six aren’t 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.
The length of the plan sets how much is on the order. A 12-month plan costs more in total than a 6-month plan, and the weekly figure comes out about the same, because the order is spread over twice as many weeks. Twelve months is our standard plan. Shorter plans are there when they fit a household better.
Freezer space is a real limit. Your Food Planner tailors the order to the room you have, we may bring it in more than one delivery, and we sell chest and upright freezers at our cost. The sizes are in the freezer space guide.
A Shopease order isn’t your entire grocery bill. It covers the meat, the freezer staples and the brand-name pantry items you choose. You’ll still buy milk, bread and fresh produce. So don’t read the weekly payment above as a replacement for that $337.92. Read it as replacing the part you currently spend at the meat counter and the freezer aisle, at locked unit prices.
Whatever your weekly figure turns out to be, your unit prices are locked for 36 months from the day you sign. It’s in writing on your order. The forecast above says food prices are going up again in 2026.
Alongside it: a 12-month quality guarantee on everything we deliver, and 14 days under our Perfect-Fit Promise to tell us an item isn’t right for your family and have it replaced.
Take the two-minute survey and we’ll 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. There’s no obligation, and no payment information is needed.
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