American recipes with 300 or fewer calories costing less than $2.5 per serving

Super 8 Sugar Cookie

Easy sugar cookie, with several variations, including coconut, peanut butter, date/nut, cinnamon and more.

Peanut Butter Cookies

Easy, delicious peanut butter cookies. The kids love them and can make them on their own, they're so easy.

Cinnamon Sugar Donut Holes

My second favorite thing after a donut is of course the donut hole. The perfect, one mouthful bite of deliciousness! This recipe is a basic recipe…

Carrot Raisin Cookie Bars

I love baking from scratch - sometimes the more ingredients the better. Other times not so much. This cookie bar recipe uses a cake mix to cut…

Orange Chipotle Vinaigrette

This recipe is adapted from one by Julie Campoy in her book Julienne. I made some changes to it. I added garlic, used more honey and reduced 50%…

Amazing Zucchini Pie

I came by this recipe from the Parents Action for Children web site, and as the name suggests, it is indeed “amazing.” Rather like a brunch quiche,…

Festive Peeps Christmas Cupcakes

Cranberry Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

Date and Nut Quick Bread

Date and Nut quick bread is quite an old fashioned favorite, it could be relished plain with tea/coffee or slathered with spoonful of fresh cream.…

Chocolate Tapioca Pudding

Take old-fashioned tapioca pudding to a grand level for a special Valentine dessert - add chocolate! Be patient as you cook the pudding, it can…

Classic S'mores

Old Fashioned Pastrami

Pastrami ought to be made with a cut of beef that is covered by a fair amount of external fat. One can trim off the excess fat before the beef is…

Shredded Brussel Sprouts

If you've never had shredded brussel sprouts before, you're in for a treat! These are really tasty. They have less of the bitter taste you get…