Chicken Curry - $7.80 a serving

Name: Chicken Curry
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 2 cups Onion, medium, chopped; 2 cloves garlic; 2 pounds chicken, boneless, skinless; unknown vegetable cooking spray; 1 1/2 cups chicken stock; 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes; 1 tablespoon curry powder; 2 cups Tomatoes, chopped; 1/3 cup peanut butter; 1/2 cup Plain, low-fat yogurt (optional)

Makes 4 servings · indian · medium · USDA MyPlate Kitchen (public domain)

$31.20

basket total, in-store

$7.80

per serving (4 servings)

+$3.18

dearer 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). 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
2 cups Onion, medium, chopped	Jumbo Yellow Onions · 1 lb	$1.19	300 g	$0.79	$0.40
2 cloves garlic	Kroger® Whole Garlic Bulbs · 5 ct	$2.49	2	$1.00	$1.49
2 pounds chicken, boneless, skinless	Heritage Farm® Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts · 1 lbx2	$2.89	907 g	$5.78	$0.00
unknown vegetable cooking spray	Kroger® Vegetable Oil Nonstick Cooking Spray · 6 oz	$2.79	-	$2.79	-
1 1/2 cups chicken stock	Swanson® Unsalted Chicken Stock, 32 oz Carton · 32 oz	$3.49	360 ml	$1.38	$2.11
1 teaspoon red pepper flakes	Simple Truth Organic® Crushed Red Pepper Shaker · 1.19 oz	$3.99	3 g	$0.35	$3.64
1 tablespoon curry powder	Simple Truth Organic® Ground Curry Powder Shaker · 1.66 oz	$3.99	8 g	$0.68	$3.31
2 cups Tomatoes, chopped	Fresh On the Vine Red Tomatoes by the Bunch (4-5 tomatoes per bunch) · 1 lb	$2.49	360 g	$1.98	$0.51
1/3 cup peanut butter	Kroger® Creamy Peanut Butter · 40 oz	$4.99	86 g	$0.38	$4.61

Where the money goes

boneless skinless chicken breast drives this basket at $5.78, 19% of the total. The next biggest lines are peanut butter ($4.99) and red pepper flakes ($3.99). $16.08 of the basket - 52% - 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® Creamy Peanut Butter · about 1048 g left, $4.61 of value
Simple Truth Organic® Crushed Red Pepper Shaker · about 31 g left, $3.64 of value
Simple Truth Organic® Ground Curry Powder Shaker · about 39 g left, $3.31 of value
Swanson® Unsalted Chicken Stock, 32 oz Carton · about 547 ml left, $2.11 of value
Kroger® Whole Garlic Bulbs · about 3 left, $1.49 of value
Fresh On the Vine Red Tomatoes by the Bunch (4-5 tomatoes per bunch) · about 94 g left, $0.51 of value

Ingredients

2 cups Onion, medium, chopped
2 cloves garlic
2 pounds chicken, boneless, skinless
unknown vegetable cooking spray
1 1/2 cups chicken stock
1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
1 tablespoon curry powder
2 cups Tomatoes, chopped
1/3 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup Plain, low-fat yogurt (optional)

Directions

This recipe is credited to a partner program (New York CACFP), so we don't reprint its directions - read them on the archived original.

New York CACFP. 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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