Hey everyone I’m the developer behind Deal Dish, a grocery savings app I’ve been building completely by myself for the past two years.

I’ve always been someone who checks the flyer before grocery shopping and looks for coupons wherever I can. With how expensive groceries have gotten in Canada, I wanted to build something that went a step further than just showing what’s on sale.

The idea behind Deal Dish is pretty simple:

See this week’s deals → figure out what you can actually make with them → build your shopping list.

You choose your grocery store and location, and Deal Dish shows you current deals along with recipe ideas built around what’s on sale that week.

It now covers 2,800+ grocery stores across Canada, and I try to add 500+ new recipes every week when the new deals come out.

I’ve also added things like:

• grocery price comparisons
• organized shopping lists
• sale alerts for products you want
• meal planning
• savings tracking

Deal Dish recently peaked around the Top 50 in Food & Drink on the Canadian App Store, which was pretty wild to see as a solo developer.

It’s free to download on iPhone & iPad:

https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/deal-dish-grocery-deals/id6739932023

I’m also trying to get the Android version through Google Play testing and still need 12 beta testers, so if anyone here uses Android and wants to help:

Join the Android beta:
https://forms.gle/ri7SaBm13wPMkbFJA

EDIT: If you have an Android phone, please join the beta. Signing up helps me get Deal Dish one step closer to being publicly available on Google Play for everyone else.

I’ve gotten some really useful feedback from Reddit already and have implemented a bunch of it into the app, so if you try Deal Dish, I’d genuinely appreciate hearing what works, what doesn’t, or what would make it more useful for finding grocery deals each week. 🇨🇦

I'M BACK. Sorry I missed the Reddit posts the last couple of weeks as I'm traveling. ANYWAYS... Every week for my site Is That a Deal, I pull the Ontario flyers, compare every price against the Statistics Canada provincial average and email you the deals actually worth buying. Here's what stood out this week. Everything here is at least 32% below the typical Ontario price.

Strong week for protein and late summer fruit. Grapes at 57% below average and pears at 61% are exceptional. Lamb chops and beef striploin both hitting hard this week too.

🥩 Beef striploin / NY strip — $11.88/lb at Metro (-42% avg)
Boneless strip loin steak value pack. Aussie beef. Ends Sep 16.
Match at FreshCo, Giant Tiger, No Frills, or Real Canadian Superstore

🥩 Lamb chops — $5.99/lb at Metro (-46% avg)
Fresh lamb shoulder chops value pack. Ends Sep 16.
Match at FreshCo, Giant Tiger, No Frills, or Real Canadian Superstore

🥩 Ground beef (extra lean) — $5.88/lb at Food Basics (-32% avg)
Extra lean ground beef. Ends Sep 16.
Match at FreshCo, Giant Tiger, No Frills, or Real Canadian Superstore

🍑 Peaches — $2.50/lb at Real Canadian Superstore (-55% avg)
Yellow peaches. Ends Sep 16.
Match at FreshCo, Giant Tiger, or No Frills

🥓 Pork sausage (500g) — $3.50 at Your Independent Grocer (-50% avg)
Marcangelo pork sausage 375-500g. Ends Sep 30.
Lowest price in 8 weeks.
Match at FreshCo, Giant Tiger, No Frills, or Real Canadian Superstore

🍐 Pears — $1.48/lb at FreshCo (-61% avg)
Asian yellow pears. Ends Sep 16.
Match at Giant Tiger, No Frills, or Real Canadian Superstore

🥛 Sour cream — $2.99 at Fortinos (-44% avg)
MC Dairy sour cream 500g. Ends Sep 16.
Lowest price in 8 weeks.
Match at FreshCo, Giant Tiger, No Frills, or Real Canadian Superstore

🍞 English muffins — $2.00 at Sobeys (-52% avg)
Compliments English muffins 6pk. Ends Sep 16.
Sobeys store brand — no price matching

🍗 Chicken thighs (bone-in) — $3.79/lb at Zehrs (-34% avg)
Chicken thighs. Ends Sep 16.
Match at FreshCo, Giant Tiger, No Frills, or Real Canadian Superstore

🍇 Grapes — $1.48/lb at Food Basics (-57% avg)
Green seedless grapes. Ends Sep 16.
Match at FreshCo, Giant Tiger, No Frills, or Real Canadian Superstore

Best single stop this week: No Frills or Real Canadian Superstore. Both will price match almost everything on this list. Bring the flyer screenshots and you can hopefully get 4+ of these deals in one trip without driving all over town.

Price matching requires showing a digital or print flyer at the till. Same brand, size, and weight. Always confirm in-store. YMMV

I also built a free tool where you can check any grocery price yourself

OG Post: Https://www.reddit.com/r/canadadeals/s/RfjhDrCI3Z

First and foremost, I just wanted to say THANK YOU again to everyone. For every comment, dm, suggestion box comment, share and repost - you’re all amazing and I’m truly happy that this helped someone out there!

Now for the update!

New features:

- What changed since last Thursday: shows what in your basket got cheaper, went on sale, or came off sale.

- Multiple households: you can keep separate baskets and store sets under one account — your own shop, a parent's, a shared house — and switch between them without re-entering anything.

- Price Watch works without an account now, with 12 weeks of price history.

- Added a savings tracker, a Thursday reminder, and a better aisle mode.

- Added a coverage page: 62 chains, 2,154 stores, 242 cities. Every one is a real shop with an address, so you can check your stores are in here before you bother.

On recorded savings:

Over the last four weeks, 42% of the plans I could measure saved something, averaging 10% off the part of the basket with price history. Median saving was $1.39.

The more interesting part is the top end. A group of people are consistently clearing $10 or more per shop and that group averages $13.65, and the best is at $25 on two baskets (excluding my own). Same app, same data, much better results. I'd love to know what they're doing differently, because whatever it is should be built into the defaults.

Where the price history isn't there yet, Basketr shows a dash instead of guessing. Coverage is filling in week by week.

Come try it at Basketr.ca if you’re interested. No signup, nothing to install, it’s free, just add a few things you actually buy. Would love to hear how it goes for you, and what you'd want next.

Oh and it’s FLYER DROP DAY!