American main dish recipes with 300 or fewer calories costing less than $2.5 per serving

V8- MEATLOAF & GLAZE

Delicious Meatloaf using V8 vegetable juice and old fashion rolled oats Great with Meat Loaf Glaze (see recipe) MEATLOAF GLAZE: 3 tbsp. brown…

Skinny Party Turkey Meatloaf

I call this party meatloaf because it’s fancy enough to serve for company but you really don’t have to wait for company to make this yummy meatloaf.…

Therese's Barbecue Rub

This is a fantastic BBQ Rub just in time for the spring and summer bbq season it is great on chicken and ribs . The recipe makes about 3 Cups of…

Beef Stew With Guinness

It’s Winter, it’s March, it’s almost St. Patrick’s Day and that means Irish food, Irish beer, wearing of the green and since there is still a real…

Homestyle Ham Loaf

An old comfort food from childhood. This is a healthy and economical dinner pared with mashed potatoes and green beans and a wonderful sandwich…

Cabbage Rolls

Cabbage rolls, cabbage burgers, bierocks, there are likely as many names as there are recipes for one of my childhood favorites. Alessa and I…

Spinach Brownies

They look like brownies, but they're not sweet!

Slow Poke Jambalaya

Chicken breast with mushroom sauce and stuffed spinach

1.Sprinkle chicken breast halves with salt and pepper on each side. 2.Preheat a large non-stick skillet over…

Skinny Lemon Glazed Chicken, Sweet and Sassy

This spectacular sweet and spicy lemon glazed chicken will make your taste buds sizzle! Studies show eating…

No Peek Stew

One of the Cheater Recipes. I'll give you the basic and then tell you that I added a few things: carrots, celery, 1/2 a can of water (would've added…

Chicken Bundles Italian

Chicken Taco Pita Pizza's

Tuna Tomato Frittata

I had always wanted to try making a frittata but not having a skillet with an oven resistant handle I never had. Then the other day it occurred to…

Spinach Calzone

My last recipe for our month of healthy alternatives to favorite foods is one that created itself. Using ingredients that I had on hand I came up…