Bean Soup - $1.18 a serving

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 pantry staples excluded. Prices change without notice - this is what we paid attention to on that date, not a quote.

tomato sauce drives this basket at $2.67, 28% of the total. The next biggest lines are dry pinto beans ($1.99) and rotini pasta ($1.99). $4.64 of the basket - 49% - 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.

• Barilla Rotini Pasta, Quality Non-GMO and Kosher Certified Pasta · about 419 g left, $1.84 of value
• Goya Pinto Beans · about 254 g left, $1.11 of value
• Jumbo Yellow Onions · about 344 g left, $0.90 of value
• Contadina Tomato Sauce · about 200 ml left, $0.79 of value

This is a delicious way to use dried pinto beans. Prepare this soup with pinto beans and with or without meat.

• 1 cup dry pinto beans (soaked and drained)
• 4 cups low sodium chicken broth
• 4 cups water
• 2 cups tomato sauce (tomato juice, or canned crushed tomatoes)
• 1 onions (chopped, or 2)
• 1 teaspoon dried oregano or basil (if you like)
• 1/4 cup uncooked pasta (rotini, dry)

This recipe is credited to a partner program (Recipe adapted from University and Connecticut Cooperative Extension and U.S Dry Bean Council), so we don't reprint its directions - read them on the archived original.

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