Corn Chowder - $1.95 a serving

Makes 7 servings · american · easy · USDA MyPlate Kitchen (public domain)
$13.64
basket total, in-store
$1.95
per serving (7 servings)
-$2.67
cheaper 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 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
1/2 cup onion (chopped)Jumbo Yellow Onions · 1 lb$1.1980 g$0.21$0.98
1/2 cup celery (chopped)Sleeved Celery · 1 ctSIZE UNREAD - 1 PKG ASSUMED$2.5950 g$2.59-
1 tablespoon margarineCHECK THISBlue Bonnet Vegetable Oil Sticks · 16 oz$1.3914 g$0.04$1.35
1 unknown medium potato (peeled and diced)Russet Potato · 1 lb$0.891$0.41$0.48
2 cups low-fat milkSimple Truth Organic® 1% Lowfat Milk Half Gallon · 1/2 gal$4.69480 ml$1.19$3.50
1 can low-sodium corn (drained, 15 1/4 ounces)Del Monte No Salt Added Golden Sweet Whole Kernel Corn · 15.25 oz$1.89432 g$1.89$0.00
1 can low-sodium cream style corn (14 3/4 ounces)CHECK THISKroger® Canned Cream Style Golden Corn · 14.75 oz$1.00418 g$1.00$0.00

low-fat milk drives this basket at $4.69, 34% of the total. The next biggest lines are celery ($2.59) and low-sodium canned corn ($1.89). $6.31 of the basket - 46% - 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 corn chowder recipe that uses low-sodium, canned corns and low-fat milk.

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

Recipe provided by DelMonte.com.. 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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