Quick and easy kid friendly boil recipes with 200 or fewer calories costing less than $3.0 per serving with photo

Creole Pralines

Better than a cookie (sorry bakers, but this is a Creole group) and with the true taste of New Orleans, Creole Pralines are one of the signature…

Garlic Ginger Green Beans

These are an excellent, healthy side dish to any grilled meat. I highly recommend them with the Chinese BBQ chicken recipe below, but honestly…

Easy Chicken Posole

This is a super easy and tasty recipe you can whip up in 20 minutes! You can use the meat from a standard rotisserie chicken for this soup. I got…

Creamy potato and leek soup

This creamy potato-leek soup is a snap to prepare: the secret lays in instant mashed potatoes.

Quick vegetable soup with kohlrabi

This all-vegetable soup is tasty, quick, healthy and easy to make.

Croatian roux soup

Very old recipe for a soup still popular in the northwestern parts of Croatia.

Arroz A La Mexicana

Everyday vegetable soup

This soup with collard greens and baby spinach can be made with any combination of fresh or frozen vegetables.

Quick & Easy Fruit Compote with Vanilla Sauce (and a no-added sugar or low-sugar variation)

A fruit compote on the table in 15 minutes? Here's a dessert kids (and…

Soup with millet and carrot

This is a deliciously healthy and vegetarian soup, easily thrown together.

Buckwheat and green pea soup

This thick, simple and colorful soup, packed with hearty goodness, is made in a flash.

Pineapple Rice with Green Soybeans

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

Lemon~Dill and Capers Rice Side Dish

Works so well with Baked Chicken,

Warm cream of cucumber soup

Cucumbers are wonderfully pureed into a silken-textured soup that’s good warm or cold.