Grocery math,
honestly done.
DishBudget treats your grocery budget like the fixed number it is. Pick your Kroger-family store, plan a few dinners, and every line on your list has a real price from that store's shelf behind it. No averages, no guessing.
- Recipes
- 42
- Ingredients priced
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- Store brands
- 20
From ZIP code to dinner in eight steps.
- 01Setup
Set your store.
Create a free account, drop your ZIP, and pick any Kroger-family store nearby: Kroger, Fry's, Ralphs, King Soopers, Smith's, Fred Meyer, QFC, Harris Teeter, and more. Every price you see comes from that store's shelf.
85254Find storesFFry's Food #6420.4 mi · N Tatum BlvdRRalphs #6421.0 mi · N Tatum BlvdKKroger #6421.6 mi · N Tatum BlvdQQFC #6422.2 mi · N Tatum Blvd - 02Browse
Find a recipe.
42 budget dinners you can filter by under $2, 20 minutes or less, meat-free, soups, and more, or search by an ingredient you already have. Every recipe is written with real package sizes, so there's no imaginary "½ jar of tahini" math.
$1.63/servingTex-MexBlack Bean & Sweet Potato Skillet35 minServes 4 Add to plan - 03See prices
Real prices, from the right products.
Each ingredient is matched to your store's live catalog: regular and sale price, stock, and a photo. We make sure the match is the actual ingredient, not something that just shares its name, and price onions and meat by weight instead of rounding up to a whole pound.
Black beansBush's Best · 15 ozSale$1.49$1.19Yellow onion0.6 lb × $1.49/lbBy weight$0.89 - 04Save more
Swap smarter.
When a store-brand version beats the name brand, we point it out. One tap swaps it in and every total updates.
Bush's Black Beans$1.49Swapped to Kroger$0.89 - 05Cook cheaper
Skip what's in your pantry.
Save the staples you keep on hand once. Every recipe and every plan leaves them out, and recipe cards show the lower price. You can still untick anything else you already have on a single recipe.
Olive oil · in your pantry$6.49Basket total$14.62After pantry$8.13 - 06Plan
Plan the week.
Add a few dinners to this week's plan and get one shopping list, sorted by aisle. Shared ingredients are combined, so three recipes that each use a little garlic mean one bulb, not three, and the plan shows what that saves over shopping each recipe separately.
Sloppy Joes Beef & Bean Chili Black Bean SoupGarlic1 bulb · $0.843 recipes: Sloppy Joes, Chili, Black Bean SoupYellow onion1.8 lb · $2.683 recipes, weighed onceSharing ingredients saves $4.20 this week - 07Shop
Shop your way.
Send the list to your store's own site (frysfood.com, ralphs.com, kroger.com, and so on) one product at a time, print a clean tick-box list to take to the store, or copy it to your phone.
Open next: Ketchup on frysfood.comGround beef$7.29Hamburger buns$1.49Ketchup$1.99Copy listPrint list - 08Cook
Cook it, then rate it.
Check off steps as you go and keep your screen awake while you cook. Mark it cooked when you're done. Reviews only come from people who've cooked the recipe, and they can share what they actually paid.
Brown the beef and drain the fat.Add onion and pepper, cook 5 min.3Stir in the sauce and simmer.Cooked!“Paid $11.40 at Fry's. Doubled the onions.”
Two numbers. Both honest.
Most recipe sites show a “cost per serving” that assumes you already own a spice cabinet. We don't. Every recipe gives you two clear numbers: what you'll pay at the register, and what the dish itself costs per plate.
Basket total
Every whole package you'll buy. Weighed items by the pound.
Recipe cost / serving
What the recipe uses of each package ÷ servings.
Example: Slow Cooker Salsa Chicken, using DishBudget's reference prices. Your store's live prices will differ a little. Plan a few dinners together and the basket shrinks further, because packages you share between recipes are only bought once.
Built to stay honest.
Prices come straight from Kroger's product catalog for your store. Each lookup is kept for 15 minutes, so pages load fast without going stale.
Before price decides, a match has to actually be the ingredient: the item's name has to appear in the product, and known look-alikes are ruled out.
Every ingredient is checked against the store's own brands (Kroger, Simple Truth, Private Selection) for a cheaper version.
Before a recipe is published, every ingredient must match a real product at our reference stores, and its card price must equal what its ingredients add up to.
We never sell your data. Your store choice stays in your browser, and signing in saves only your favorites, pantry, meal plan, and reviews.
Browse recipes and estimated prices without one. A free account unlocks live prices at your store, plus your pantry, meal plan, favorites, and reviews.