Kid friendly American appetizers & snacks recipes with 500 or fewer calories with photo

Roasted Picante Salsa

Easy to prepare chunky salsa for dips and other dishes.

Skinny Sliders with Caramelized Onions, Yum!

Minimizing is the new super-sizing and these little sliders are terrific. No need to heat up the barbecue…

Apple Dumplings

YUMMYLICIOUS!!! That's the word that 1st comes to mind. And when you factor in the ease of the recipes & the inexpensiveness of it, that makes it…

Sweet and Sour Dipping Sauce

Try this sauce with fried shrimp, bbq chicken wings, chicken fingers or nuggets. Copycat recipe.

Caramel Candy Popcorn

Pretzel Dogs

The perfect lunch for a picnic in the backyard. Source: http://www.rhodesbread.com/recipes/view/pretzel-dogs

Milky Way Popcorn

A great popcorn to share at any party. It is covered in chocolate, caramel and Milky Way candy.

Cheddar Bay Drop Biscuits

In searching for an easy biscuit recipe, I happened on this one somewhere and fooled with it a bit. It's super easy and takes little time to…

Easy Baked Fudge for a Large Group

Five minute prep recipe for delicious fudge.

Homemade Peanut Butter

Homemade Peanut Butter - 4 ingredients and less than 10 minutes

nutella banana brownies

so moist and so good

Smoked Bacon Potato Salad

If you have your smoker going, smoke the bacon for a while before you cook it. I typically use hickory, so I buy hickory bacon and put it in the…

Sweet Pepper Poppers

Welcome to our month of tailgating goodies! We love jalapeno poppers at our house and bacon AND cheese and when I was recently doing my weekly food…

Zucchini Cheese Squares

I just made this recipe for a party originally for an appetizer, but instead, we ended up using it as a side dish. It's delicious. But, the best…

Drechter Koocha (Funnel Cakes)

This is an early funnel cake recipe.