Sautéed Walleye with Tarragon - $12.48 a serving

Makes 2 servings · american · easy · USDA MyPlate Kitchen (public domain)
$24.97
basket total, in-store
$12.48
per serving (2 servings)
+$7.86
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). 2 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 saysWe foundPackageUsesCostsLeft over
2 walleye fillets (4–6 ounces each), thawed and patted dryCHECK THISKroger® Wild Caught Pacific Cod Fillets Frozen BIG DEAL! · 32 ouncesSIZE UNREAD - 1 PKG ASSUMEDSUBSTITUTE$18.992$18.99-
1 teaspoon chopped fresh tarragon or parsley (or 1/2 teaspoon dried)Simple Truth Organic® Tarragon · 0.5 oz$2.495 ml$0.88$1.61
2 tablespoons butterKroger® Salted Butter Sticks · 4 sticks / 16 oz$3.4928 g$0.22$3.27
Where the money goes

walleye fillets drives this basket at $18.99, 76% of the total. The next biggest lines are butter ($3.49) and fresh tarragon ($2.49). $4.89 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.

What carries into next week

This pan-seared walleye recipe uses fresh herbs and lemon to bring out the mild flavor and flaky texture of this omega-3-rich white fish.

Ingredients
Directions

This recipe is credited to a partner program (Recipe adapted from Red Lake Nation Fishery), so we don't reprint its directions - read them on the archived original.

Recipe adapted from Red Lake Nation Fishery. 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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