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Food Basics flyer deals, turned into dinner
Deal Dish reads this week's Food Basics flyer and builds recipes, meal plans, and a sorted shopping list around whatever is actually on sale — so you stop planning meals first and paying full price second.
- Food Basics stores tracked
- 156Food Basics stores tracked
- Province
- 1Province
- New flyer day
- ThursdayNew flyer day
- To download
- FreeTo download
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What the Food Basics flyer is good for
Metro’s Ontario discount banner. Food Basics runs some of the lowest advertised produce prices in the province, and its flyer is short enough to read end to end in a couple of minutes.
The Food Basics flyer is deliberately short, which makes it the fastest in Ontario to read end to end. Its produce pricing regularly leads the province, and it is the most direct check on No Frills in most Ontario markets.
Discount banners win on the front page and make it back in the middle. The loss leaders are genuine — often sold at or below cost to get you through the door — but the categories nobody comparison-shops, like condiments, spices and frozen sides, quietly carry full margin. A trip that starts with the front page and ends with a full cart can cost more than a conventional store would have.
The move is to buy the loss leaders hard and refuse to improvise the rest. Deal Dish enforces that by building the week’s meals out of the deeply discounted items and generating a list that stops there — no wandering, no filling the cart with the profitable middle of the store.
Food Basics coverage by province
- Ontario
- 156
Store list refreshed from Food Basics’s own location feed.
Real locations
A sample of the Food Basics stores in the app
Deal Dish scopes prices to a specific store, not a region, because the same banner can run different features in different markets. These are real Food Basics locations you can set as your home store.
| Store | Banner | Address |
|---|---|---|
| Food Basics - Ajax | Food Basics | 475 Westney Road North, Ajax, L1T 3H4 |
| Food Basics & Pharmacy - Ajax | Food Basics | 280 Harwood Avenue South, Ajax, L1S 2J1 |
| Food Basics - Ancaster | Food Basics | 71 Wilson Street West, Ancaster, L9G 1N1 |
| Food Basics & Pharmacy - Barrie | Food Basics | 555 Essa Road, Barrie, L4N 9E6 |
| Food Basics & Pharmacy - Belleville | Food Basics | 470 Dundas Street East, Belleville, K8N 1E9 |
| Food Basics - Blenheim | Food Basics | 286 Chatham Street North, Blenheim, N0P 1A0 |
By city
Food Basics deals in your city
- Food Basics deals in Mississauga8 stores
- Food Basics deals in Hamilton7 stores
- Food Basics deals in Ottawa7 stores
- Food Basics deals in Toronto7 stores
- Food Basics deals in London6 stores
- Food Basics deals in Kitchener5 stores
- Food Basics deals in Scarborough5 stores
- Food Basics deals in Brampton4 stores
- Food Basics deals in Kingston4 stores
- Food Basics deals in Burlington3 stores
- Food Basics deals in Guelph3 stores
- Food Basics deals in Oakville3 stores
Cities with 6+ tracked grocery stores get a full local page.
Also Metro
Other banners worth comparing against Food Basics
Metro runs several banners at different price points. The same product often appears in two of their flyers in the same week at two different prices — which is exactly the comparison Deal Dish automates.
FAQ
Food Basics flyer questions
When does the new Food Basics flyer come out?
Food Basics follows the standard Canadian grocery cycle: the new flyer goes live Thursday and runs through the following Wednesday. Deal Dish pulls the fresh prices in every Thursday, so the recipes and shopping lists in the app always reflect the current week rather than last week's sale.
How many Food Basics stores does Deal Dish cover?
156 Food Basics locations in Ontario. You pick your home store during onboarding and every deal, recipe, and list price is scoped to that store.
Is Deal Dish free for Food Basics shoppers?
Yes. Browsing deals, generating recipes from what is on sale, building shopping lists, and scanning barcodes for unit prices are all free. Deal Dish Pro ($3.99/month or $34.99/year CAD) lifts the free-tier caps and unlocks multi-store planning if you shop more than one banner in a week.
Can I compare Food Basics prices against other stores?
Yes. Deal Dish tracks 21 Canadian banners side by side, so when Food Basics and a nearby competitor both feature the same ingredient, the app shows you which one is genuinely cheaper per unit — not just which one has the bigger sale sticker.
Does Deal Dish show the actual Food Basics flyer?
Deal Dish is built around the prices in the flyer rather than a scan of the paper itself. Instead of flipping pages, you get the discounted items sorted by category, the regular price beside the sale price so the real saving is visible, and recipes assembled from whatever is cheapest that week at Food Basics.