Brunswick Stew - $2.14 a serving

Name: Brunswick Stew
Yield: 8 servings
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon vegetable oil (or cooking oil of choice); 1 medium onion, chopped; 2 cups chicken broth, low-sodium; 2 cups boneless chicken or turkey, cooked, and diced; 2 cups tomatoes, low sodium canned or cooked; 2 cups lima beans, cooked (or canned, low-sodium); 2 cups whole kernel corn, canned, low-sodium (or cooked)

Makes 8 servings · american · easy · USDA MyPlate Kitchen (public domain)

$17.14

basket total, in-store

$2.14

per serving (8 servings)

-$2.48

cheaper than the $4.62 median dinner

What it costs at Kroger - Kroger On the Rhine

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. 2 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 says	We found	Package	Uses	Costs	Left over
1 medium onion, chopped	Jumbo Yellow Onions · 1 lbSIZE UNREAD - 1 PKG ASSUMED	$1.19	1	$0.29	$0.90
2 cups chicken broth, low-sodium	Kroger® Less Sodium Fat Free Chicken Broth · 32 oz	$1.59	480 ml	$0.84	$0.75
2 cups boneless chicken or turkey, cooked, and dicedCHECK THIS	Kroger® Frozen Fully Cooked Boneless Skinless Diced Chicken Breast · 22 oz	$7.99	400 g	$5.12	$2.87
2 cups tomatoes, low sodium canned or cookedCHECK THIS	Hunt's No Salt Added Diced Tomatoes · 14.5 ozx2	$1.59	480 g	$1.86	$1.32
2 cups lima beans, cooked (or canned, low-sodium)	Kroger Lima Beans - 15oz can · 15 oz	$2.19	400 g	$2.06	$0.13
2 cups whole kernel corn, canned, low-sodium (or cooked)	Kroger® Whole Kernel Canned Golden Corn · 15.25 oz	$1.00	340 g	$0.79	$0.21

Where the money goes

boneless cooked chicken drives this basket at $7.99, 47% of the total. The next biggest lines are canned low sodium tomatoes ($3.18) and canned lima beans ($2.19). $6.18 of the basket - 36% - 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.

What carries into next week

Kroger® Frozen Fully Cooked Boneless Skinless Diced Chicken Breast · about 224 g left, $2.87 of value
Hunt's No Salt Added Diced Tomatoes · about 342 g left, $1.32 of value
Jumbo Yellow Onions · about 344 g left, $0.90 of value
Kroger® Less Sodium Fat Free Chicken Broth · about 427 ml left, $0.75 of value
Kroger® Whole Kernel Canned Golden Corn · about 92 g left, $0.21 of value

This hearty stew makes 8 servings or you can double it for a crowd. Skip the trip to the grocery store by using fresh leftover cooked chicken or turkey that ...

Ingredients

1 tablespoon vegetable oil (or cooking oil of choice)
1 medium onion, chopped
2 cups chicken broth, low-sodium
2 cups boneless chicken or turkey, cooked, and diced
2 cups tomatoes, low sodium canned or cooked
2 cups lima beans, cooked (or canned, low-sodium)
2 cups whole kernel corn, canned, low-sodium (or cooked)

Directions

This recipe is credited to a partner program (Healthy Futures Virginia Cooperative Extension), so we don't reprint its directions - read them on the archived original.

Healthy Futures Virginia Cooperative Extension. MyPlate took its recipe pages offline in 2026 - the original lives on at the Internet Archive. More on this: Why chicken dinners cost more than you would guess.

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