American bbq party recipes with 300 or fewer calories costing less than $2.0 per serving

Carrot Cake Sandwich Cookies

*Using shortening instead of butter produces a thicker more ‘cake-like’ cookie. Don’t use margarine or butter substitutes!

The Best Barbecued Chicken With an Amazing Homemade Sauce

What makes this chicken de-licious is the fabulous homemade sauce! It’s sweet and a little spicy. You’ll…

Bacon Stuffed Shell Salad

This recipe takes pasta salad to a big flavor level. Great to make ahead and serve for a simple luncheon. Serve with fresh seasonal fruit.

Super Simple Chewy Banana Granola Bars

These are super easy to make. We often have Granola cereal in because we add it to our yogurt for homemade…

Old-Fashioned Peanut Butter Crisscross Cookies

Peanut butter cookie recipes abound, but none of them came close to rekindling memories of the favorite from my…

Guacamole Tex-Mex

Super simple - fast - packs just enough punch. It will be the best you ever tasted. Bring on the cervesas, margaritas - and lots of quality…

Garden Salmon Loaf

Pinwheel Tortilla Roll-ups

Perfect party appetizer

Crock Pot Baked Potato Recipe

I would have never dreamed how easy these were, delicious and fun to make the toppings for. Just think, baked potatoes ready in a crock pot? The…

Bread and Butter Pickles

These bread and butter pickles are so delicious that people who don't like pickles like these. I've really got this recipe down, so if you like to…

Potluck Apricot Cobbler

An old-fashioned cobbler makes a hit with crowds and one of my favorite cobbler fruits is apricots. These perky golden first fruits of summer have…

Apple Pie Dip

Apple Pie Dip-is a delicious, easy and quick (22) minute recipe for a dip which tastes exactly like apple pie. This is a great dip for any holiday…

Incredible Rum Punch

This simple recipe was a HUGE hit at our last pool party. Once the guys got a sip of it, they finished off their beers and started drinking the…

Sloppy Sloppy Joes

These get really sloppy, but taste really good. The aroma brings everyone running to the table long before it is finished cooking.

Oprah's Moscow Mule

This is the recipe for the Moscow Mule cocktail Oprah served up while camping in Yosemite. Mix it up and make a toast to Oprah!