Mexican Pozole Soup - $3.66 a serving

Makes 10 servings · mexican · involved · USDA MyPlate Kitchen (public domain)
$36.63
basket total, in-store
$3.66
per serving (10 servings)
-$0.96
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 pantry staples excluded. 1 match is 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
2 pounds lean beef (cubed)CHECK THISKroger® Natural Fresh Choice Beef For Stew Meat BIG DEAL! · 2 lb$20.00907 g$20.00$0.00
1 tablespoon olive oilSimple Truth Organic® Extra Virgin Olive Oil · 16.9 fl oz$8.4915 ml$0.25$8.24
1 unit onion (large)Jumbo Yellow Onions · 1 lb$1.191$0.29$0.90
1 unit garlic clove (finely chopped)Organic Garlic · 1 ct$0.991$0.99-
1/4 cup cilantroCilantro · 1 ctSIZE UNREAD - 1 PKG ASSUMED$0.9910 g$0.99-
1 can stewed tomatoes (15 ounces)Kroger Tomatoes Stewed Tomatoes · 14.5 oz$1.00425 g$1.00-
2 ounces tomato pasteKroger® Tomato Paste · 6 oz$0.9957 g$0.33$0.66
1 can hominy (1 lb. 13 ounce)Kroger White Hominy - 15.5oz can · 15.5 ozx2$1.49822 g$2.79$0.19

lean beef drives this basket at $20.00, 55% of the total. The next biggest lines are olive oil ($8.49) and canned hominy ($2.98). $9.99 of the basket - 27% - 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 (National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), Delicious Heart Healthy Latino Recipes/Platillos latinos sabrosos y saludables), so we don't reprint its directions - read them on the archived original.

National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), Delicious Heart Healthy Latino Recipes/Platillos latinos sabrosos y saludables. 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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