Stop & Shop · two people · Boston
Stop & Shop meal plan for two people: five dinners for $26.32
Dinners only, $40 budget. Built from Stop & Shop's weekly ad in Boston, MA. 5 sale items, dated October 28, 2026.
The five dinners
Chosen around Stop & Shop's ad in Boston, MA. On sale this week: chicken breast, onions, chicken thighs, butter, shrimp.
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$2.63 a serving · $40 dinner budget for two people
Whole packs; $20.99 of leftovers carry to next week. Packs are bigger than one week of dinners for 2 people, so the first shop costs more than the dinners use. Dinners only, no breakfast or lunch.
Prices: Stop & Shop's ad, Boston, MA, Oct 23 to Oct 29. Items without a SALE tag are typical US prices.
Stop & Shop is the cheapest store for this plan in Boston
The same five dinners priced with each store's ad this week.
Stop & Shop is cheapest in Boston at $26.32, $5.01 less than Big Y.
The same five dinners at each store. Items in the store's ad cost the ad price, sale or regular; items it does not list cost the typical price. At typical prices alone the plan is $29.53, so a store can come out above that. Stores with fewer than 2 sale items in this plan are left out.
Grocery list by aisle
Prices are for whole packs, so the trip is $47.31; the dinners use $26.32 of it. Sale items are marked.
Stop & Shop grocery list, Boston (October 28, 2026)
Dinners: Old-Fashioned Chicken Salad, Chicken and dumplings, Garlic Butter Shrimp Scampi, Beef and Broccoli, Slow-cooker beef pot roast with carrots and celery. Prices: Stop & Shop's ad, Boston, MA, Oct 23 to Oct 29. Items without a SALE tag are typical US prices.
Produce10 items
Meat & Poultry4 items
Seafood1 item
Dairy & Eggs2 items
Canned & Dry2 items
Check your pantry (not priced): sesame oil, baking powder and soda, cornstarch, red pepper flakes, dried spices, flour, hot sauce, mustard, olive and cooking oil, salt and pepper, soy sauce, brown sugar, wine.
How this plan was made
We ran Salefork's plan builder on Stop & Shop's ad prices for Boston: five familiar dinners with a real photo for two people that use under $40, at most two per main protein, favoring dinners that use sale items. Cost counts only the amounts the recipes use. Items Stop & Shop does not list are priced at a typical everyday price. Dated October 28, 2026.
Common questions
What is a good Stop & Shop meal plan for two people?
Five dinners for two people for $26.32 in Boston, built from Stop & Shop's weekly ad read October 28, 2026. 5 items in the plan are on sale.
Does it change by city?
Yes. Stop & Shop runs different ads by region, so sale items and totals differ. Open the planner to price it for your city.
Why is the shopping trip higher than the plan total?
The plan total counts only what the five dinners use, $26.32. At the register you buy whole packs, about $47.31 here.
Make it yours
Change the people, budget or dinners. We keep Stop & Shop and Boston and rebuild the list.
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