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

Arroz A La Mexicana

Zucchini Santa Fe

This fast side is great with the green chilies. It gives this recipe a great zip.

Orange Sauce (for cooked carrots)

Are you tired of serving plain carrots? This is an excellent sweet sauce you can serve on top of cooked…

Potatoes With Parsley and Garlic - Pommes Parsillade

These are the fantastic potatoes you've probably had in a french bistro...the ones that weren't pommes frites…

Homemade Nutella

Creamy Chocolate Hazelnut Spread you can make at home

Incredible, Skinny Roasted Garlic Mashers

This recipe is it! These are one of my favorite ways to make mashed potatoes. And for garlic lovers, a dream…

Steamed Green Beans with Lemon & Dill

Delightfully easy and refreshing, these lemon-laced green beans compliment chicken, pork, beef or vegetarian…

Cardamom Carrots

This side of sweet carrots with a hint of cardamom blend well. They're particularly nice during the holiday's, served up with poultry.

Orange Marjoram Carrots

It can be hard to come by a vegetable dish both children and adults enjoy. You'll appreciate this recipe because it found that middle ground.…

Homemade White Butter

You must be wondering why you should bother with making your own butter. There are actually several reasons! First, it's really easy and also you…

Lemon-Pepper-Garlic Overnight Refrigerated Pickles

The easiest and best homemade pickles! We love these.

Zucchini Fritters

A fun and different way to eat your vegetables

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…

Avocado salsa

Enjoy on the side or as a dip