Portuguese Kale Soup - $3.34 a serving
$20.03
basket total, in-store
$3.34
per serving (6 servings)
-$1.28
cheaper 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). 3 pantry staples excluded. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 cup onion, chopped | Jumbo Yellow Onions · 1 lb | $1.19 | 160 g | $0.42 | $0.77 |
| 1 clove garlic, minced | Kroger® Whole Garlic Bulbs · 5 ct | $2.49 | 1 | $0.50 | $1.99 |
| 1/2 cup Carrot, sliced | Carrots · 1 lb | $1.69 | 65 g | $0.24 | $1.45 |
| 2 Chicken bouillon cubes | Knorr Chicken Cube Bouillon · 8 ct / 3.1 ozSIZE UNREAD - 1 PKG ASSUMED | $1.19 | 2 | $1.19 | - |
| 3 pounds Potatoes,cubed | Kroger® Gold Potatoes · 5 lb | $7.49 | 1360 g | $4.49 | $3.00 |
| 4 cups kale, chopped | Kale Lettuce Bunch · 1 ctSIZE UNREAD - 1 PKG ASSUMED | $1.49 | 260 g | $1.49 | - |
| 1/4 pound Turkey kielbasa sausage, sliced (low-fat) | Butterball Fully Cooked Polish Style Turkey Sausage · 13 oz | $4.49 | 113 g | $1.38 | $3.11 |
Where the money goes
potatoes drives this basket at $7.49, 37% of the total. The next biggest lines are turkey kielbasa ($4.49) and garlic ($2.49). $10.32 of the basket - 52% - 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
- Butterball Fully Cooked Polish Style Turkey Sausage · about 256 g left, $3.11 of value
- Kroger® Gold Potatoes · about 908 g left, $3.00 of value
- Kroger® Whole Garlic Bulbs · about 4 left, $1.99 of value
- Carrots · about 389 g left, $1.45 of value
- Jumbo Yellow Onions · about 294 g left, $0.77 of value
Ingredients
- 1 cup onion, chopped
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 1/2 cup Carrot, sliced
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 8 cups water
- 2 Chicken bouillon cubes
- 1/4 teaspoon hot pepper flakes (optional)
- 3 pounds Potatoes,cubed
- 4 cups kale, chopped
- 1/4 pound Turkey kielbasa sausage, sliced (low-fat)
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
Directions
This recipe is credited to a partner program (New York CACFP), so we don't reprint its directions - read them on the archived original.
New York CACFP. 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.
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