Big Y · a family of 4 · New York
Big Y meal plan for a family of 4: five dinners for $58.41
Built from Big Y's flyer in New York, NY. 12 sale items, dated October 28, 2026.
The five dinners
Chosen around Big Y's ad in New York, NY. On sale this week: ground beef, butter, heavy cream, chicken breast, mushrooms and more.
$1.97/servingnatashaskitchen.com
$2.55/servingprimaverakitchen.com
$3.05/servingcafedelites.com- $3.34/servingthemodernproper.com
$3.69/servingcafedelites.com
This plan in New York: Big Y and 9 other stores
The same five dinners priced with each store's ad this week. Giant Food is $0.79 cheaper for these dinners.
Giant Food is cheapest in New York at $57.61, $20.04 less than Weis Markets.
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 $64.98, 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 $103.77; the dinners use $58.41 of it. Sale items are marked.
Big Y grocery list, New York (October 28, 2026)
Meat & Poultry6items
Seafood1item
Produce8items
Dairy & Eggs6items
Canned & Dry3items
Check your pantry (not priced):cooking spray, shortening, ghee, coconut and sesame oil, cornstarch, vanilla, yeast, cocoa, dried herbs, spices and seasoning blends, dried spices, flour, mustard, mayo, ketchup, olive and cooking oil, salt and pepper, syrups, molasses, powdered sugar, wine, beer and spirits.
How this plan was made
We ran Salefork's plan builder on Big Y's ad prices for New York: five familiar dinners with a real photo for a family of 4 that fit $75, at most two per main protein, favoring dinners that use sale items. Cost counts only the amounts the recipes use. Items Big Y does not list are priced at a typical everyday price. Dated October 28, 2026.
Common questions
What is a good Big Y meal plan for a family of 4?
Five dinners for a family of 4 for $58.41 in New York, built from Big Y's flyer read October 28, 2026. 12 items in the plan are on sale.
Does it change by city?
Yes. Big Y 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, $58.41. At the register you buy whole packs, about $103.77 here.
Make it yours
Change the people, budget or dinners. We keep Big Y and New York and rebuild the list.
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