One Bag Bluegrass Bake! - $35.15 a serving

Name: One Bag Bluegrass Bake!
Yield: 1 servings
Ingredients: 4 ounces trout fillets or any local flaky fish, like salmon; 1 tablespoon grated lemon zest; 1/2 lemon, thinly sliced; 1 tablespoon lemon juice; 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil; 1/2 red or yellow bell pepper, julienned; 1/2 cup zucchini, peeled and julienned; 1 garlic clove, peeled and minced; 2 sprigs thyme; 1/2 cup navy or white beans, rinsed and drained

Makes 1 servings · american · easy · USDA MyPlate Kitchen (public domain)

$35.15

basket total, in-store

$35.15

per serving (1 servings)

+$30.53

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). 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 says	We found	Package	Uses	Costs	Left over
4 ounces trout fillets or any local flaky fish, like salmon	Simple Truth® Wild Caught Mahi Mahi Fillets · 12 oz (340 g)SIZE UNREAD - 1 PKG ASSUMEDSUBSTITUTE	$10.49	113 g	$10.49	-
1 tablespoon grated lemon zest	Fresh Large Lemon - Each · 1 each	$0.85	1	$0.85	-
1/2 lemon, thinly sliced	Fresh Large Lemon - Each · 1 each	$0.85	1	$0.85	-
1 tablespoon lemon juice	Fresh Large Lemon - Each · 1 each	$0.85	1	$0.85	-
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil	Simple Truth Organic® Extra Virgin Olive Oil · 16.9 fl oz	$8.49	15 ml	$0.25	$8.24
1/2 red or yellow bell pepper, julienned	Fresh Red Hothouse Bell Pepper · 1 ct	$1.67	1	$1.67	-
1/2 cup zucchini, peeled and julienned	Zucchini · 1 lb	$1.79	120 g	$0.47	$1.32
1 garlic clove, peeled and minced	Kroger® Whole Garlic Bulbs · 5 ct	$2.49	1	$0.50	$1.99
2 sprigs thyme	Soli Organic™ Living Thyme · 1 ctx2	$2.99	2	$5.98	-
1/2 cup navy or white beans, rinsed and drainedCHECK THIS	Kroger® Navy Beans · 16 oz	$1.69	120 g	$0.45	$1.24

Where the money goes

trout fillets drives this basket at $10.49, 30% of the total. The next biggest lines are extra virgin olive oil ($8.49) and fresh thyme ($5.98). $12.79 of the basket - 36% - 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

Simple Truth Organic® Extra Virgin Olive Oil · about 485 ml left, $8.24 of value
Kroger® Whole Garlic Bulbs · about 4 left, $1.99 of value
Zucchini · about 334 g left, $1.32 of value
Kroger® Navy Beans · about 334 g left, $1.24 of value

“My family likes to go camping and hiking a lot,” says Will. “My mom and I were trying to think of some healthy choices for lunch instead of hotdogs and hamburgers on the grill. So we came up with this one-bag bake that included seasonal veggies and local fish. We used an aluminum foil pouch and placed it in our campfire. It was a hit with our whole family! All we needed was our one bag and a fork! Now we make it at home all the time! Super yummy!!!”

Ingredients

4 ounces trout fillets or any local flaky fish, like salmon
1 tablespoon grated lemon zest
1/2 lemon, thinly sliced
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
1/2 red or yellow bell pepper, julienned
1/2 cup zucchini, peeled and julienned
1 garlic clove, peeled and minced
2 sprigs thyme
1/2 cup navy or white beans, rinsed and drained

Directions

This recipe is credited to a partner program (The 2016 Healthy Lunchtime Challenge Cookbook), so we don't reprint its directions - read them on the archived original.

The 2016 Healthy Lunchtime Challenge Cookbook. 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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