Grocery deals in Gatineau this week

The usual routine in Gatineau is to decide what you want to eat, write a list, and pay whatever the shelf says. Every week that costs money, because the ingredients you picked are unrelated to the ones the stores discounted.

Deal Dish runs it the other way around. Each Thursday it reads the new prices at the 19 Gatineau stores it tracks, surfaces what genuinely dropped — with the regular price shown beside the sale price so you can see the size of the cut — and then proposes meals built from those ingredients. Recipes deliberately overlap, so one discounted item carries two or three dinners instead of half-rotting in the fridge.

The barcode scanner covers the rest. Point it at a package in the aisle to get the unit price, compare pack sizes honestly, and catch shrinkflation when a box quietly loses 40 grams while keeping its price.