Mix It Up Sushi - $2.53 a serving
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). 1 pantry staples excluded. 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 says | We found | Package | Uses | Costs | Left over |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 cups brown rice | Kroger® Long Grain Brown Rice · 16 oz | $0.99 | 370 g | $0.81 | $0.18 |
| 1/4 cup seasoned rice wine vinegar | Kroger® Seasoned Rice Vinegar · 12.7 fl oz | $2.49 | 60 ml | $0.40 | $2.09 |
| 1 cucumber, peeled, seeded, and cut into long matchsticks | Organic Cucumber · 1 ct | $1.39 | 1 | $1.39 | - |
| 1 avocado, peeled, seeded, and cut into thin slices | Fresh Large Ripe Avocado · 1 each | $2.50 | 1 | $2.50 | - |
| 1 large broccoli stem, outer layer peeled and stem cut into small matchsticksCHECK THIS | Broccoli Bunch · 1 ct | $4.69 | 1 | $4.69 | - |
| 1/4 small pineapple, peeled, cored, and cut into matchsticksCHECK THIS | Kroger® Canned Pineapple Chunks in Pineapple Juice · 20 ozSIZE UNREAD - 1 PKG ASSUMED | $1.99 | 0.3 | $1.99 | - |
| 1/2 small mango, peeled and cut into matchsticks | Large Mangos · 1 ct | $1.67 | 0.5 | $0.83 | $0.83 |
| 4 ounces softened low-fat cream cheese, cut into large matchsticks | Kroger® Low Fat Neufchatel Cheese · 8 oz | $1.99 | 113 g | $0.99 | $1.00 |
| 8 ounces cooked shrimp, crab, or even imitation crab | Kroger Crab Select Leg Style Imitation Crab Meat · 8 oz | $2.50 | 227 g | $2.50 | - |
- 8 roasted seaweed papers
- 1 small bundle watercress, washed
broccoli stem drives this basket at $4.69, 23% of the total. The next biggest lines are avocado ($2.50) and imitation crab ($2.50). $4.11 of the basket - 20% - 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.
- Kroger® Seasoned Rice Vinegar · about 316 ml left, $2.09 of value
- Kroger® Low Fat Neufchatel Cheese · about 114 g left, $1.00 of value
- Kroger® Long Grain Brown Rice · about 84 g left, $0.18 of value
“Sushi is my favorite food. I like making sushi with my mom. She cuts up all the food and then I can pick what goes inside,” says Indiana. “ We roll it up together and I eat it. When it was time to pick which sushi I thought was best, I couldn't choose! So we used the food in all of them for the recipe. We used brown rice because it is healthy and it tastes great. I think it would be healthy for kids to eat sushi.”
- 2 cups brown rice
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/4 cup seasoned rice wine vinegar
- 8 roasted seaweed papers
- 1 cucumber, peeled, seeded, and cut into long matchsticks
- 1 avocado, peeled, seeded, and cut into thin slices
- 1 large broccoli stem, outer layer peeled and stem cut into small matchsticks
- 1/4 small pineapple, peeled, cored, and cut into matchsticks
- 1/2 small mango, peeled and cut into matchsticks
- 4 ounces softened low-fat cream cheese, cut into large matchsticks
- 8 ounces cooked shrimp, crab, or even imitation crab
- 1 small bundle watercress, washed
This recipe is credited to a partner program (The 2015 Healthy Lunchtime Challenge Cookbook), so we don't reprint its directions - read them on the archived original.
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