Kid friendly recipes with 200 or fewer calories costing less than $2.0 per serving added by professional chefs

Chocolate Oatmeal Nut Muffins

Get your chocolate fix in an oatmeal nut muffin - and call it health food! Moist and tasty. Use your preferred nut in place of walnuts - pecans,…

Pumpkin Praline Muffins

A crunchy caramel-pecan topping crowns these moist and delicious muffins. Perfect for holiday breakfasts or snacks. I've made these several times…

Avocado salsa

Enjoy on the side or as a dip

Skinny and Delicious Cornbread Breakfast Casserole

Perfect for the weekend...It’s so hearty and includes the fabulous Denver omelette flavors of eggs, ham, bell…

Pineapple Rice with Green Soybeans

This colorful rice side or vegetarian entrée is a healthy and novel departure from same-old, same-old steamed…

Aaron's Guacamole

This recipe was supplied by my granddaughters boyfriend. Some of the structure was edited by myself

Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Mini Cakes

Mini-cakes with oatmeal, buttermilk, bananas and mini-chocolate chips......what’s not to like here? These make…

Valentine Sugar Cookie Cutouts

Perfect cookie dough for sugar cutouts, here made into Valentine hearts.

Basic Pickling Brine

I think pickling is the easiest preservation method for saving your garden harvest. I learned a simple recipe for brine this weekend at a…

Moroccan Tomato & Green Pepper Salad

Time to put those Preserved Lemons to work in the kitchen - they've been developing their totally unique and…

Irish Spuds (St. Patrick's Day Cookie)

Chocolate and chewy, Irish Spuds are a unique cookie for St. Patrick's Day. The stiff chocolate-oatmeal dough…

creamy chicken korma

Chicken Thighs w/ Artichoke and Feta

This was so easy and full of flavor.

Magical Bars Made Skinny

They’re super rich and decadent. And just six ingredients layered right in the pan. Each delectable bar has 133 calories, 6 grams of fat and 4…

CCB Salad

with cucumber carrot and beetroots this is one healthy and easy to make salad