Harvest Chili - $5.52 a serving

Makes 6 servings · american · easy · USDA MyPlate Kitchen (public domain)
$33.11
basket total, in-store
$5.52
per serving (6 servings)
+$0.90
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). 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 saysWe foundPackageUsesCostsLeft over
6 cups vegetable stock, low sodiumSimple Truth Organic® Low Sodium Vegetable Broth · 32 ozx2$1.991440 ml$3.16$0.82
2 cups pumpkin, cannedCHECK THISLibby's 100% Pure Canned Pumpkin · 15 ozx2$2.99480 g$3.38$2.60
2 cups navy beans, cannedCHECK THISKroger® Navy Beans · 16 oz$1.69480 g$1.69-
1 cup black beans, cannedKroger® Black Beans · 15.25 oz$1.00240 g$0.56$0.44
1 cup Great Northern Beans, cannedSimple Truth Organic® Low Sodium Great Northern Beans · 15 oz$1.25240 g$0.71$0.54
1/2 teaspoon cuminMcCormick Ground Cumin · 1.5 oz$3.491 g$0.08$3.41
1/2 teaspoon onion, minced, driedCHECK THISSmart Way™ Minced Onion · 2.01 oz$1.251 g$0.02$1.23
1/8 teaspoon white pepperKroger® Ground White Pepper Shaker · 1.87 oz$3.991 g$0.04$3.95
1/8 teaspoon garlic powderKroger® Garlic Powder Shaker · 9.25 oz$4.991 g$0.01$4.98
12 ounces ground turkey or porkKroger® 93/7 Lean Fresh Ground Turkey - 1 LB · 1 lb$5.49340 g$4.12$1.37

canned pumpkin drives this basket at $5.98, 18% of the total. The next biggest lines are ground turkey ($5.49) and garlic powder ($4.99). $19.36 of the basket - 58% - 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.

This recipe is credited to a partner program (Woods Hollow Chidren's Center (Recipe for Healthy Kids Competition)), so we don't reprint its directions - read them on the archived original.

Woods Hollow Chidren's Center (Recipe for Healthy Kids Competition). 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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