Kid friendly picnic recipes with 400 or fewer calories costing less than $1.5 per serving

Apple, Date, Cinnamon Cookies

Very moist and delicate cookies will a low sugar content.

Orange Sauce (for cooked carrots)

Are you tired of serving plain carrots? This is an excellent sweet sauce you can serve on top of cooked…

Light Strawberry Mousse

An easy, light, fluffy, creamy, strawberry mousse dessert to end an elegant meal.

Pineapple Heaven

My boyfriends grandmother introduced me to this recipe. I adore it! It is so simple, even your children can help.

Fruit Cocktail Cake

This is a delicious, moist cake recipe made with fruit cocktail. It will become one of your favorite fruit cakes, trust me.

Cheddar Burger Appetizers

Herbed Dip

This is my favourite low calorie, fat free, savoury, all purpose dip. You can use it on baked potatoes or as a chip dip or as a dip for fresh…

Bernice's Vegetable Dip

An excellent, creamy, tangy, zippy dip to serve with fresh vegetables.

Greek Artichoke Salad

A greek inspired zesty, tasty and quick to make salad for a picnic or a potluck.

Colourful Slaw

An eye catching slaw using green and red cabbages, yellow and red peppers and orange carrot for colourful salad to bring to a BBQ or a potluck.

Homemade Chocolate Milk Shakes

A frugal way to make a homemade chocolate milk shake when you don't have any ice cream on hand. You will not believe how delicious these shakes are!

Jam Oat Bars

A delicious easy fall dessert.

Peanut Butter Cookies

Easy, delicious peanut butter cookies. The kids love them and can make them on their own, they're so easy.

Cucumber Salad (vinegar style)

My mom's been making this since we were little, it so refreshing in the summer time. It's basic and simple and great at picnics and bbq's and with…

Caramel Pudding

The Amish call it caramel pudding but most people call it butterscotch pudding.