Eggs Foo Young - $12.74 a serving

Name: Eggs Foo Young
Yield: 2 servings
Ingredients: 2 unknown eggs; 1 cup bean sprouts, fresh; 1/2 cup chicken, cooked and diced (or beef); 1 teaspoon dried minced onion; 1 can mushrooms, stems and pieces (drained); 2 teaspoons oil; unknown Sauce Ingredients:; 1/2 cup water; 2 teaspoons soy sauce, low-sodium; 2 teaspoons cornstarch

Makes 2 servings · asian · easy · USDA MyPlate Kitchen (public domain)

$25.49

basket total, in-store

$12.74

per serving (2 servings)

+$8.12

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). 2 pantry staples excluded. 3 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 says	We found	Package	Uses	Costs	Left over
2 unknown eggs	Vital Farms® Pasture-Raised XL Eggs · 12 ct	$7.49	2	$1.25	$6.24
1 cup bean sprouts, fresh	La Choy Bean Sprouts · 14 oz	$1.99	100 g	$0.50	$1.49
1/2 cup chicken, cooked and diced (or beef)CHECK THIS	Private Selection® Classic Seasoned Whole Roasted Chicken Hot - Available 11am-7pm · 32 oz	$7.99	70 g	$0.62	$7.37
1 teaspoon dried minced onionCHECK THIS	Smart Way™ Minced Onion · 2.01 oz	$1.25	3 g	$0.07	$1.18
1 can mushrooms, stems and pieces (drained)	Pennsylvania Dutchman® Mushroom Pieces & Stems · 8 oz	$2.99	225 g	$2.97	$0.02
2 teaspoons soy sauce, low-sodium	Kroger® Less Sodium Soy Sauce · 10 fl oz	$1.49	10 ml	$0.05	$1.44
2 teaspoons cornstarchCHECK THIS	Kroger® Pure Corn Starch · 16 oz	$2.29	6 g	$0.03	$2.26

Where the money goes

cooked chicken breast drives this basket at $7.99, 31% of the total. The next biggest lines are eggs ($7.49) and canned mushrooms ($2.99). $20.01 of the basket - 79% - 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

Private Selection® Classic Seasoned Whole Roasted Chicken Hot - Available 11am-7pm · about 837 g left, $7.37 of value
Vital Farms® Pasture-Raised XL Eggs · about 10 left, $6.24 of value
Kroger® Pure Corn Starch · about 448 g left, $2.26 of value
La Choy Bean Sprouts · about 297 g left, $1.49 of value
Kroger® Less Sodium Soy Sauce · about 286 ml left, $1.44 of value
Smart Way™ Minced Onion · about 54 g left, $1.18 of value

Ingredients

2 unknown eggs
1 cup bean sprouts, fresh
1/2 cup chicken, cooked and diced (or beef)
1 teaspoon dried minced onion
1 can mushrooms, stems and pieces (drained)
2 teaspoons oil
unknown Sauce Ingredients:
1/2 cup water
2 teaspoons soy sauce, low-sodium
2 teaspoons cornstarch

Directions

This recipe is credited to a partner program (University of Maine Cooperative Extension bulletin #4333, Thrifty Recipes: Main Dishes), so we don't reprint its directions - read them on the archived original.

University of Maine Cooperative Extension bulletin #4333, Thrifty Recipes: Main Dishes. 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.

Similar priced dinners

Build my cheapest week Price this at my store