Cheese Stuffed Potatoes - $2.72 a serving

Makes 4 servings · american · easy · USDA MyPlate Kitchen (public domain)
$10.89
basket total, in-store
$2.72
per serving (4 servings)
-$1.90
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 2026-07-19 at Kroger - Kroger On the Rhine (ZIP 45202). 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
4 medium baking potatoesRusset Potato · 1 lbx3 est.$0.894$2.35$0.32
1 cup cottage cheese, low-fatBreakstone's Low Fat 2% Milkfat Small Curd Cottage Cheese · 16 oz$2.99225 g$1.48$1.51
2 tablespoons 1% milkKroger® 1% Lowfat Milk 32 fl. oz. Bottle · 1 qt$2.7930 ml$0.09$2.70
2 tablespoons onion, choppedJumbo Yellow Onions · 1 lb$1.1930 g$0.08$1.11
1/4 teaspoon paprikaCHECK THISSmart Way™ Ground Paprika · 2 oz$1.251 g$0.02$1.23
Where the money goes

low-fat cottage cheese drives this basket at $2.99, 27% of the total. The next biggest lines are 1% milk ($2.79) and baking potatoes ($2.67). $6.86 of the basket - 63% - 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

These potatoes are light and fluffy on the inside and baked twice to give a crunchy crust.

Ingredients
Directions

This recipe is credited to a partner program (Pennsylvania Nutrition Education Network), so we don't reprint its directions - read them on the archived original.

Pennsylvania Nutrition Education Network. 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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