Baked Fish with Creole Sauce - $4.39 a serving

Makes 4 servings · american · easy · USDA MyPlate Kitchen (public domain)
$17.56
basket total, in-store
$4.39
per serving (4 servings)
-$0.23
cheaper than the $4.62 median dinner

Every non-staple ingredient matched to a real product on the shelf, priced on 2026-07-17 at Kroger - Kroger On the Rhine (ZIP 45202). 2 pantry staples excluded. 1 match is flagged for you to check rather than silently swapped. Prices change without notice - this is what we paid attention to on that date, not a quote.

The recipe saysWe foundPackageUsesCostsLeft over
1 pound fish fillets (fresh or frozen, unbreaded)CHECK THISKroger® Wild Caught Alaskan Cod Fillets · 16 oz$12.00454 g$12.00-
1/2 medium onion, thinly slicedJumbo Yellow Onions · 1 lbSIZE UNREAD - 1 PKG ASSUMED$1.190.5$0.14$1.05
1/2 medium green pepper, thinly slicedFresh Large Green Bell Pepper · 1 ct$0.990.5$0.49$0.49
1 can (8 ounces) tomato sauce, low-sodiumContadina Tomato Sauce · 8 oz$0.89227 g$0.89-
1 teaspoon chili powderKroger® Chili Powder Shaker · 4 oz$2.49-$2.49-

fish fillets drives this basket at $12.00, 68% of the total. The next biggest lines are chili powder ($2.49) and yellow onion ($1.19). $1.54 of the basket - 9% - is package remainder: food you buy because stores sell packages and recipes call for amounts. It does not vanish, it sits in your kitchen for the next meal.

This tomato-based Creole sauce includes onion, green pepper, and spices to liven up the fish of your choice.

This recipe is credited to a partner program (Eating Smart, Being Active Colorado State University and University of California at Davis), so we don't reprint its directions - read them on the archived original.

Eating Smart, Being Active Colorado State University and University of California at Davis. MyPlate took its recipe pages offline in 2026 - the original lives on at the Internet Archive. More on this: What each protein actually costs per serving.
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