Main dish recipes with 500 or fewer calories costing less than $3.0 per serving

Smokey Greens and Black Eyed Peas with Biscuits

Black-eyed peas (the food, not the band) combined with delicious kale are melded together into a flavorful dish…

Skinny Turkey Chili

Nothing beats a delicious and hearty chili on a cold day. Having friends over? Why not set up a chili bar where everyone can top their own. This…

Skinny Thai Chicken and Peanut Noodles

I love any kind of Asian noodle dish, especially a Thai one that includes peanut butter. Good news too: Peanut…

Chicken teriyaki 400pp@4oz chix

Frittata with asparagus

Light, tasty and flavorful, ideal for springtime supper or lunch.

Lighten Up with this Easy Turkey and Apple Meatloaf



This is a light, flavorful twist on a classic meatloaf. To make it skinny, I’m using ground turkey and adding…

Paella Wannabe

I had all of the ingredients I needed although I had to change things up a little from the traditional paella. I used brown rice instead of bomba or…

Apricot Pork and Beans

Pork and beans – an “All American” side dish that I gave a little tweak to recently. We love the white Great Northern beans and I used them in this…

Make Ahead Pesto Polenta Lasagna

This recipe is from allrecipes.com, submitted by Fiffen. It is a super simple do ahead dish. All it requires is…

Salmon Loaf

Fish Mornay

The popular French seafood dish, baked in a microwave.

judys Spanish Dish

this is very good! My sister got the recipe from a friend and then rearranged it with different ingredients and it was great!!

Hearty Chicken Vegetable Soup with Dumplings

A quick to make, hearty and healthy dinner for a cold winter night. This recipe begins with a rotisserie…

Vegetarian Black Bean Burger

Great food for you veggie-heads!

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…