Baked Fish with Corn Crust - $10.58 a serving

Makes 2 servings · american · easy · USDA MyPlate Kitchen (public domain)
$21.16
basket total, in-store
$10.58
per serving (2 servings)
+$5.96
dearer than the $4.62 median dinner

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). 2 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 saysWe foundPackageUsesCostsLeft over
1 unit nonstick cooking sprayKroger® Nonstick Canola Oil Cooking Spray · 8 ozSIZE UNREAD - 1 PKG ASSUMED$2.991$2.99-
1 cup corn flakes cereal (crushed into crumbs)Kroger® Corn Flakes Toasted Cereal · 18 oz$1.9928 g$0.11$1.88
2 units fish fillets (about 6 ounces of either trout, flounder, or other white fish)CHECK THISKroger® Wild Caught Alaskan Cod Fillets · 16 oz$12.00340 g$8.99$3.01
1 cup 1% milkKroger® 1% Lowfat Milk 32 fl. oz. Bottle · 1 qt$2.79240 ml$0.71$2.08
2 teaspoons margarineCHECK THISBlue Bonnet Vegetable Oil Sticks · 16 oz$1.399 g$0.03$1.36

fish fillets drives this basket at $12.00, 57% of the total. The next biggest lines are nonstick cooking spray ($2.99) and 1% milk ($2.79). $8.33 of the basket - 39% - 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 whole new way to eat fish! Bake fish with crushed corn flakes instead of bread crumbs.

This recipe is credited to a partner program (Recipe adapted from Food.com), so we don't reprint its directions - read them on the archived original.

Recipe adapted from Food.com. 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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