Sausage and Cranberry Rice
Tart cranberries balance rich sausage in a warm, savory one-skillet dinner.
- Per serving
- $1.58
- Serves
- 5
- Time
- 30 min
- Whole dinner
- $7.90
Ingredients
1.5 lbs Hillshire Farm Beef Smoked Sausage
On sale at BJ's: Hillshire Farm Beef Smoked Sausage, 3 lbs.
$8.29$11.291 cup Ocean Spray Cranberries
On sale at BJ's: Ocean Spray Cranberries, 2 lbs.
$3.991.5 cups Rice
pantry3 cups Chicken broth
about $1.251 small Onion
about $0.501 tablespoon Butter
pantryto taste Salt
pantryto taste Black pepper
pantry
Prices are from BJ's the week of October 18, 2026. Sale prices change every week and differ by store.
Steps
- Slice sausage into 1/2-inch rounds. Dice onion.
- Melt butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Brown sausage for 2 minutes, then remove and set aside.
- In the same skillet, toast rice for 1 minute. Add diced onion and cook until soft, about 3 minutes.
- Pour in broth and return sausage to skillet. Stir in cranberries. Bring to a simmer, cover, and cook 15 to 18 minutes until rice is tender and liquid is absorbed.
Why it’s cheap
2 of the 8 ingredients were on sale at BJ's the week of October 18, 2026, led by hillshire farm beef smoked sausage at $8.29 instead of $11.29.
The sale items rang up $3.00 under their regular prices.
Penny Meals prices a dinner by the share of each package you actually cook, adds an estimated shelf price for anything that wasn’t on sale, and counts pantry staples like oil and salt as free. That came to $1.58 a serving, or $7.90 for 5 servings.
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