American side dishes recipes with 500 or fewer calories costing less than $1.5 per serving

Cauliflower Cake

This is such a great way to eat your veggies. It would be so easy to change to suit your tastes too!

Corn Cilantro Rice

This rice dish is a little sweet from the corn and a little tangy from the cilantro. It goes great with your favorite tacos or even something like…

Corn Maque Chou

This corn dish is a hybrid of Cajun and Native American cooking. It's best to use fresh corn, but canned or frozen corn along with creamed corn can…

Fresh Corn and Asiago Cheese Bread Pudding

OK, there are some gut bomb ingredients here, but put aside the diet for now. Besides, you look great and you…

Coach's Favorite Baby Lima Beans

I have a dog park buddy (former basketball coach) I cook for, and he brought me this recipe a lady in his…

Homemade Beets

Easy prep recipe for beet lovers. Better than canned!

Summer Squash & Tomato Saute

Lemon-Pepper-Garlic Overnight Refrigerated Pickles

The easiest and best homemade pickles! We love these.

Band Booster hot dog sauce

great at the game or at home

GREEN BEANS WITH A LITTLE SPICE

THIS RECIPE WE DO WITH HOME GROWN BEANS. GREEN BEANS WITH TOMATOES HOT SAUCE THE RECIPE WE HAVE LISTED.

Zucchini Fritters

A fun and different way to eat your vegetables

Fat Free Sweet Potato Souffle

If you live in the Carolinas you are pretty much required to love sweet potatoes. And generally they’re pretty healthy but to make them really tasty…

Homemade Cole Slaw

A perfect side for burgers and sandwiches.

German Potato Pancakes

I loved these “pancakes” when I was a child and visited my grandmother’s house. My mother made them occasionally, but they were always a staple at…

Roasted Vegetable Succotash

Of all traditional Thanksgiving dishes, succotash is the most likely one that was served at the first feast. Introduced to colonial cooks by the…