Baked Potatoes Primavera - $3.83 a serving

Makes 4 servings · american · easy · USDA MyPlate Kitchen (public domain)
$15.30
basket total, in-store
$3.83
per serving (4 servings)
-$0.80
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). 1 pantry staples excluded. 3 matches are 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
4 medium potatoesKroger® Gold Potatoes · 5 lbSIZE UNREAD - 1 PKG ASSUMED$7.494$2.77$4.72
4 cups mixed vegetables (frozen)Kroger® Frozen Mixed Vegetables · 12 ozx2$1.29600 g$2.28$0.30
1 cup sour cream, non-fatCHECK THISKroger® Fat Free Sour Cream · 16 oz$1.99240 ml$1.05$0.94
1/2 teaspoon dried oreganoCHECK THISSmart Way™ Oregano Leaves · 0.63 oz$1.251 g$0.07$1.18
1/2 teaspoon dried basilCHECK THISKroger® Basil Leaves Shaker · 0.43 oz$1.991 g$0.16$1.83

potatoes drives this basket at $7.49, 49% of the total. The next biggest lines are frozen mixed vegetables ($2.58) and non-fat sour cream ($1.99). $8.96 of the basket - 59% - 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.

A simple primavera sauce mixed with frozen vegetables takes baked potatoes to a new level.

This recipe is credited to a partner program (Food and Health Communications, Inc.), so we don't reprint its directions - read them on the archived original.

Food and Health Communications, Inc.. MyPlate took its recipe pages offline in 2026 - the original lives on at the Internet Archive. More on this: What dinner actually costs in 2026.
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