Vegetable-Beef Soup - $3.18 a serving

Name: Vegetable-Beef Soup
Yield: 8 servings
Ingredients: 1 can beef (about 24 ounces); 1 cup whole grain rotini (uncooked, other pastas can be used instead); 1 unknown large onion (chopped); 4 cups water (for soup); 1 cup kidney beans (cooked); 1 can low-sodium carrots (drained, about 15 ounces); 1 can low-sodium corn (drained, about 15 ounces); 2 cans low-sodium tomatoes (diced, undrained, about 15 ounces)

Makes 8 servings · american · easy · USDA MyPlate Kitchen (public domain)

$25.47

basket total, in-store

$3.18

per serving (8 servings)

-$1.44

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). 1 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 says	We found	Package	Uses	Costs	Left over
1 can beef (about 24 ounces)	Keystone All Natural Beef · 28 oz	$15.79	680 g	$13.53	$2.26
1 cup whole grain rotini (uncooked, other pastas can be used instead)	Kroger® 100% Whole Grain Rotini · 16 oz	$1.33	140 g	$0.41	$0.92
1 unknown large onion (chopped)	Jumbo Yellow Onions · 1 lb	$1.19	1	$0.29	$0.90
1 cup kidney beans (cooked)	Light Red Kidney Beans · 15.5 oz	$1.00	240 g	$0.55	$0.45
1 can low-sodium carrots (drained, about 15 ounces)CHECK THIS	Kroger® Canned Whole Baby Carrots · 14.5 oz	$1.09	425 g	$1.09	-
1 can low-sodium corn (drained, about 15 ounces)	Del Monte No Salt Added Golden Sweet Whole Kernel Corn · 15.25 oz	$1.89	425 g	$1.86	$0.03
2 cans low-sodium tomatoes (diced, undrained, about 15 ounces)	Hunt's No Salt Added Diced Tomatoes · 14.5 ozx2	$1.59	850 g	$3.18	-

Where the money goes

canned beef drives this basket at $15.79, 62% of the total. The next biggest lines are low-sodium diced tomatoes ($3.18) and low-sodium canned corn ($1.89). $4.57 of the basket - 18% - 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

Keystone All Natural Beef · about 114 g left, $2.26 of value
Kroger® 100% Whole Grain Rotini · about 314 g left, $0.92 of value
Jumbo Yellow Onions · about 344 g left, $0.90 of value
Light Red Kidney Beans · about 199 g left, $0.45 of value

Did you know? Protein foods include both animal (meat, poultry, seafood, and eggs) and plant (beans, peas, soy products, nuts, and seeds) sources. Enjoy this delicious soup with canned beef.

Ingredients

1 can beef (about 24 ounces)
1 cup whole grain rotini (uncooked, other pastas can be used instead)
1 unknown large onion (chopped)
4 cups water (for soup)
1 cup kidney beans (cooked)
1 can low-sodium carrots (drained, about 15 ounces)
1 can low-sodium corn (drained, about 15 ounces)
2 cans low-sodium tomatoes (diced, undrained, about 15 ounces)

Directions

This recipe is credited to a partner program (Recipe adapted from Commodity Supplemental Food Program Cookbook), so we don't reprint its directions - read them on the archived original.

Recipe adapted from Commodity Supplemental Food Program 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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