Rainbow Bell Pepper Boats with Garbanzo Beans and Kale - $4.43 a serving

Makes 4 servings · mediterranean · easy · USDA MyPlate Kitchen (public domain)
$17.71
basket total, in-store
$4.43
per serving (4 servings)
-$0.20
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. Prices change without notice - this is what we paid attention to on that date, not a quote.

The recipe saysWe foundPackageUsesCostsLeft over
2 cups instant brown rice (cooked)Minute® Gluten-Free Instant Brown Rice · 28 oz$4.99370 g$2.33$2.66
4 medium bell peppers (red, yellow, and orange)Kroger® Tri-Color Bell Peppers · 20 oz$3.994$3.38$0.61
2 cups kale (chopped)Kale Lettuce Bunch · 1 ctSIZE UNREAD - 1 PKG ASSUMED$1.49134 g$1.49-
1 can 15 oz garbanzo beans, unsaltedSimple Truth Organic® Low Sodium Garbanzo Beans · 15 oz$1.25425 g$1.25$0.00
1/2 cup walnuts (chopped)Simple Truth® Halves & Pieces Walnuts · 9 oz$5.9960 g$1.41$4.58

walnuts drives this basket at $5.99, 34% of the total. The next biggest lines are instant brown rice ($4.99) and bell peppers ($3.99). $7.86 of the basket - 44% - 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.

Red, orange, and yellow bell peppers stuffed with garbanzo beans, kale, walnuts, and brown rice make a delicious Mediterranean-influenced vegetarian dish.

This recipe is credited to a partner program (Produce for Better Health Foundation), so we don't reprint its directions - read them on the archived original.

Produce for Better Health Foundation. MyPlate took its recipe pages offline in 2026 - the original lives on at the Internet Archive. More on this: The protein math behind beans and rice.
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