Your weekly plan

Why combining beats adding up

Price three recipes separately and you get three baskets, each buying its own onion, its own can of tomatoes, its own bottle of oil. Nobody shops that way. Combining merges them into one shopping list first, so an ingredient that appears in two recipes is bought once, and the total you see is the total you would actually pay at the register.

The saving is usually larger than people expect, because it compounds with package sizes. A recipe needing a third of a bunch of cilantro and another needing a third of the same bunch do not need two bunches. The combined list shows which items are doing double duty, and how much the sharing took off the total.

How to use it

Price a few recipes first - every basket this browser has seen is remembered, so they will be waiting here. Pick two to five of them, and you get one merged shopping list with a per-recipe breakdown, the shared-ingredient savings called out, and a one-tap Kroger cart. You can also paste a shared basket link from someone else. Combining is free and instant: it is pure arithmetic over baskets that are already priced, so it costs no grocery-API calls and is not rate limited.

Every recipe in a combined plan has to come from the same store, because prices are per location and mixing two stores into one total would produce a number no single receipt would ever match. If you want a whole week built for you rather than assembled by hand, the weekly builder picks the cheapest set of dinners against a budget. If you just want one recipe priced, start at the recipe calculator.