Kroger Standard Meal Plan
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BUDGET RATIONALE
Why these meals: This week's plan is built around what's on sale at Kroger, so you get five different proteins across five nights: chicken on Monday, smoked sausage on Tuesday, ground beef burgers on Wednesday, turkey on Thursday, and lobster tails on Friday. Asparagus is the one vegetable that appears twice, on Monday and Thursday, so a single 2 lb purchase at $7.98 covers both dinners. The Butterball turkey is $2.56 for 2 lbs, but it needs a night to thaw, so move it to the fridge on Wednesday and Thursday's roast will be mostly hands-off. Tuesday's sausage and pepper skillet and Wednesday's pan-seared burgers keep the middle of the week quick, which leaves Friday free for the Wild-Caught Lobster Tails at $24.00 for 4 tails.
5-DAY MEAL PLAN
Monday
Meal: Skillet Chicken Breast with Asparagus
Description: Boneless chicken breasts are pan-seared until golden, then served with sauteed asparagus. A quick, lean weeknight dinner with simple seasoning.
Sale items used: Fresh Heritage Farm Boneless Chicken Breasts or Wings, Asparagus
Prep time: 25 minutes
Serving note: 2 lbs boneless chicken breasts and 1 lb asparagus.
Recipes:
- Chicken and Asparagus Skillet Dinner
- Garlic Butter Chicken and Asparagus Recipe (One-Pan)
- Garlic Butter Chicken and Asparagus Skillet
Tuesday
Meal: Smoked Sausage Ropes with Mini Sweet Pepper Saute
Description: Sliced Hillshire Farm Smoked Sausage Ropes are browned in a skillet with Kroger Mini Sweet Peppers. Serve over Ben's Original Ready Rice for a fast one-pan dinner.
Sale items used: Hillshire Farm Smoked Sausage Ropes or Cocktail Smokies, Private Selection Snacking Tomatoes or Mini Seedless Cucumbers or Kroger Mini Sweet Peppers, Ben's Original Ready Rice or Campbell's Cooking Sauce
Prep time: 20 minutes
Serving note: 2 packages of sausage ropes (4 people), 1 pack mini sweet peppers, 2 Ben's Original Ready Rice.
Recipes:
- Sweet and Spicy Sausage and Mini Rainbow Peppers Recipe
- Smoked Sausage, Sauerkraut & Sweet Peppers Sauté
- Smoked Sausage with peppers and onions
Wednesday
Meal: Pan-Seared Ground Beef Burgers with Avocado
Description: Kroger 85% Lean Ground Beef is shaped into 4 patties and pan-seared, then served on Ball Park Buns with sliced Medium Avocados. Top with Kroger Cheese.
Sale items used: Kroger 85% Lean Ground Beef (1 lb package), Ball Park Buns or Nature's Own Perfectly Crafted Buns, Medium Avocados, Kroger Cheese
Prep time: 25 minutes
Serving note: 1 lb ground beef (4 patties), 1 package buns, 2 avocados, 1 Kroger Cheese.
Recipes:
- Avocado Burger Recipe
- Avocado Burger
- California Avocado Burger
Thursday
Meal: Oven-Roasted Butterball Turkey with Asparagus
Description: A 2 lb piece of Butterball Turkey, Frozen is thawed and roasted in the oven until cooked through, then sliced. Served with roasted asparagus.
Sale items used: Butterball Turkey, Frozen, Asparagus
Prep time: 75 minutes
Serving note: Assume 2 lbs turkey, thawed in the fridge overnight; roasting is mostly hands-off, so thaw ahead and start early. Uses 1 lb asparagus.
Recipes:
- Pan-Roasted Turkey with Asparagus
- Mom's Roasted Turkey with Butternut Squash and Asparagus
- Smoked Turkey Wrapped Asparagus Recipe
Friday
Meal: Pan-Seared Lobster Tails with Salad Kit
Description: Wild-Caught Lobster Tails are split and baked or pan-seared with butter and served with a Dole Salad Kit. A special end-of-week dinner.
Sale items used: Wild-Caught Lobster Tails, Dole Salad Kits
Prep time: 25 minutes
Serving note: 4 lobster tails (2 pairs), 1 Dole Salad Kit.
Recipes:
- The Best Lobster Salad
- Pan-Seared Lobster Tail with Tropical Fruit Salsa
- Pan-seared Lobster Tail
🛒 Shopping List
SHOPPING LIST
Buy on sale:
- Fresh Heritage Farm Boneless Chicken Breasts or Wings (2 lbs): $3.98
- Asparagus (2 lbs): $7.98
- Hillshire Farm Smoked Sausage Ropes or Cocktail Smokies (x2 packages): $5.98
- Private Selection Snacking Tomatoes or Mini Seedless Cucumbers or Kroger Mini Sweet Peppers (x2 packs): $6.00
- Ben's Original Ready Rice or Campbell's Cooking Sauce (x2): $2.98
- Kroger 85% Lean Ground Beef (1 lb package) (x1): $5.99
- Ball Park Buns or Nature's Own Perfectly Crafted Buns (x1): $3.49
- Medium Avocados (x2): $1.54
- Kroger Cheese (x1): $2.99
- Butterball Turkey, Frozen (2 lbs): $2.56
- Wild-Caught Lobster Tails (4 tails, 2 pairs): $24.00
- Dole Salad Kits (x1): $3.67
Pantry staples needed:
- Salt, pepper, olive oil, butter, garlic, lemon, dried herbs
🏷️ All sale items this week
SALE ITEMS FOUND
Meats on sale:
- Fresh Heritage Farm Boneless Chicken Breasts or Wings: $1.99/lb with card
- Boneless New York Strip Steaks: $11.99/lb with card
- Kroger 85% Lean Ground Beef (1 lb package): $5.99 each with card
- St. Louis Style Pork Ribs Bone-In: $2.99/lb with card
- Deli Kitchen St. Louis Style Ribs, Fully Cooked: $14.99 each with card
- Kroger Chicken Party Wings or Kroger 80% Lean Beef Burgers: $9.99 each with card
- Tyson Frozen Chicken: $6.99 each with card
- Pork Butt Bone-In or Boneless Pork Half Loin: $1.99/lb with card
- Wild-Caught Lobster Tails: 2 for $12.00 with card
- Wild-Caught Snow Crab Clusters: $11.99/lb with digital coupon
- Simple Truth Organic Grass-Fed 85% Lean Ground Beef: $20.00 each with card
- Butterball Turkey Roast (3-day sale): $10.00 each with card
- Butterball Turkey, Frozen: $1.28/lb with card
- Simple Truth Natural Turkey Burgers: $9.99 each with card
- Eckrich Smoked Sausage or Smithfield Lunch Meat: $5.00 each with card
- Hillshire Farm Smoked Sausage Ropes or Cocktail Smokies: $2.99 each with digital coupon
Deli and prepared on sale:
- Oscar Mayer Deli Fresh Lunch Meat, Family Pack: $6.49 each with card
- La Terra Fina Dip: $3.99 each with card
- Fresh Baked Cookies: $3.00 each with card
- Private Selection Fresh Baked Butter Croissants or Bakery Fresh Glazed Donuts: $5.00 each with card
- Private Selection Detroit Style Pizza: $12.00 each with card
- Guillermo's Salsa: $3.99 each with card
- Armour Lunchmakers: 5 for $5.00 with card
Produce on sale:
- Medium Avocados: $0.77 each with card
- Strawberries or Blackberries: 2 for $5.00 with card
- Private Selection Snacking Tomatoes or Mini Seedless Cucumbers or Kroger Mini Sweet Peppers: 2 for $6.00 with card
- Kroger Seedless Grapes or Simple Truth Organic Grapes: $4.99 each with digital coupon
- Kroger Honeycrisp or Envy Apples: $5.99 each with card
- Asparagus: $3.99/lb with card
- Dole Salad Kits: 3 for $11.00 with card
- Jumbo Blueberries: $5.99 each with card
- Fresh-Cut Fruit Bowls: $5.00 each with card
- Adorbs Seedless Mandarins (3-day sale): $4.99 each with card
Dairy and eggs on sale:
- Simple Truth Cage Free Eggs, 24 ct: $5.49 each with card
- Kroger Milk (3-day sale): $2.49 each with card
- Noosa Yoghurt: $1.99 each with card
- Fage Greek Yogurt: $6.49 each with card
- Fairlife Core Power Protein Shake: $3.99 each with card
- Natural Bliss Creamer or Starbucks Creamer: $3.49 each with digital coupon
- Tillamook Ice Cream: $3.99 each with digital coupon
- Kroger Cheese: $2.99 each with card
Bakery and bread on sale:
- Sara Lee Bread: $2.99 each with digital coupon
- Private Selection Wide Pan Bread or Buns: $3.49 each with card
- Ball Park Buns or Nature's Own Perfectly Crafted Buns: $3.49 each with card
- Dave's Killer Bread Organic Bread or Starbucks Iced Coffee: $4.99 each with card
- Nature's Own Bread or Hormel Spam: $2.99 each with card
- Pillsbury Grands Biscuits, Crescents or Cinnamon Rolls: $1.99 each with card
Pantry on sale:
- Post Cereal: $1.49 each with digital coupon
- Swanson Broth: $1.79 each with digital coupon
- Ken's Salad Dressing or Goodles Mac & Cheese: $2.49 each with card
- Pepperidge Farm Cookies: $3.99 each with card
- General Mills Cereal or Betty Crocker Fruit Snacks: $1.99 each with card
- Nabisco Family Size Oreo or Chips Ahoy Cookies: $3.99 each with card
- Progresso Soup or Barilla Pasta: $1.79 each with card
- Bertolli Pasta Sauce or Rao's Pasta: $1.99 each with card
- Prego Pasta Sauce or Sweet Baby Ray's Barbecue Sauce: $1.49 each with card
- Ben's Original Ready Rice or Campbell's Cooking Sauce: $1.49 each with card
- Keebler Cookies or Hostess Multipack: $2.99 each with card
- Pop-Tarts or Kroger Cranberry Juice Cocktail: $1.99 each with card
- Kroger Coffee: $12.99 each with card
- Gold Medal Flour or Kroger Canola Oil: $3.99 each with card
- Kroger Brown or Powdered Sugar: $2.00 each with card
- Nabisco Party Size Oreo or Chips Ahoy Cookies: $5.99 each with card
- Nestlé Toll House Morsels: $4.99 each with card
- Kettle Brand Potato Chips: $1.99 each with digital coupon
- Clif Bars or Kroger Breakfast Sandwiches: $5.49 each with card
- Lipton Tea or Kind Bars: $6.99 each with card
- Lay's Potato Chips or Fritos: 4 for $10.00 with card
- José Olé Taquitos or Impossible Entrée: $5.99 each with card
- Clif Builders Protein Bars or Built Puff Protein Bars: $9.99 each with card
- Starbucks Coffee: $7.99 each with card
- Snyder's of Hanover Pretzels or Stubb's Sauce: 2 for $7.00 with card
- Totino's Pizza Rolls: $11.99 each with card
Frozen on sale:
- Freschetta Pizza: $3.99 each with digital coupon
- Jimmy Dean Breakfast Sandwiches: $4.99 each with digital coupon
- Screamin' Sicilian Pizza: $5.99 each with card
- Stouffer's or Lean Cuisine Entrée: 4 for $10.00 with card
- Bob Evans Family Size Sides: $4.99 each with card
🛒 Estimated Shopping Cost
Based on sale prices for items in this plan
Some sale prices require the store's loyalty card or a clipped digital coupon. Check the flyer before you shop.
$71.16
for 4 people · $17.79 per person
📍 Disclaimer: Prices and availability are based on the Kroger weekly sales flyer for the week of October 14, 2026. Flyers are sourced from store websites and weekly flyer aggregator sites. Actual prices may vary by location. Always verify prices at your local store. We are not affiliated with Kroger.