American summer recipes with 200 or fewer calories costing less than $1.5 per serving

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Pumpkin Cranberry Nut Granola

Pumpkin Cranberry Nut Granola

Need a last-minute food gift or host gift idea? This makes, bakes, cools and can be bagged within an hour! Use as a topping on yogurt, ice cream,…

Salad Foodie
Dec 2013
Professional
1 vote
5129 views
Spinach-Romaine Lettuce Salad

Spinach-Romaine Lettuce Salad

This was a 'gourmet' salad from Bon Appetit, 1978. It now is a favorite in my recipes. Sliced red onions and/or feta cheese make good additions to…

Julia Ann Souders
Aug 2015
Intermediate
1 vote
3246 views
Banana Cherry Custard Muffins

Banana Cherry Custard Muffins

Banana Cherry Custard Muffins are the perfect quick breakfast or guilt-free healthy, 4 ingredient, sweet, lo-calorie snack!

Culinary Envy
Jan 2017
Advanced
1 vote
3031 views
Lemonade Syrup Base

Lemonade Syrup Base

When there's several lemons to either use up or lose out, make Lemonade Syrup Base. This recipe is from Sunkist and I have made it for years and…

Salad Foodie
Jul 2011
Professional
3 votes
8921 views
Sinful Saltines

Sinful Saltines

Saltine Crackers at their finest...sweet, salty, crunchy and gooey. Wow!

Andra Kiser
Jul 2012
Intermediate
2 votes
7390 views
Apple Muffins ( no butter)

Apple Muffins ( no butter)

These apple muffins are moist and mildly sweet. Oil is substituted for butter.

A Cook at Heart
Nov 2013
Intermediate
1 vote
3741 views
Apple Bacon Cheddar Crostini

Apple Bacon Cheddar Crostini

Great fall appetizer, party food or fun snack.

Denise Sherin
Aug 2014
Advanced
1 vote
4213 views
Grilled Cajun Steaks

Grilled Cajun Steaks

Grilled Cajun Steaks is an easy and quick 21 minute recipe that you'll want to consider for your outdoor grilling rotation. Beef strip steaks with a…

RecipeKing
Jun 2015
Intermediate
1 vote
2766 views
Top of the Line Banana Nut Bread

Top of the Line Banana Nut Bread

This bread is light and tender yet firm,, and has a mixture of flavors appealing to the taste buds. I began…

J. Gino Genovesi
Apr 2013
Professional
1 vote
7148 views
Cardamom Carrots

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.

Robyn Savoie
Feb 2014
Advanced
1 vote
6641 views
Chocolate Chip Zucchini Cookies

Chocolate Chip Zucchini Cookies

Zucchini cookies much like pumpkin cookies tend to have a cake-like texture rather than crisp or crunchy from the extra moisture of the vegetable.…

Salad Foodie
Oct 2020
Professional
1 vote
763 views
Jalapeno Poppers with Cilantro Ranch

Jalapeno Poppers with Cilantro Ranch

Baked not fried, mmm...

Mary Joseph
Jan 2011
Advanced
2 votes
4113 views
Giggling Gourmet's "Don Quixote's Boca de Fuego!" Hot Sauce

Giggling Gourmet's "Don Quixote's Boca de Fuego!" Hot Sauce

For those that like it hot: Here's a hot sauce personal favorite of my own design that I have been working on…

Giggling Gourmet
Apr 2012
Advanced
2 votes
8365 views
Chef Gino's Peanut Blossom Cookies

Chef Gino's Peanut Blossom Cookies

Peanut Blossoms were developed by Freda Smith from Gibsonburg, Pa. in a National Pillsbury Bake-Offf…

J. Gino Genovesi
Dec 2013
Professional
2 votes
5192 views
Winter Berry Jam With Texas Ruby Red Grapefruit

Winter Berry Jam With Texas Ruby Red Grapefruit

Enjoy this vibrant deep purple, sweet tart jam with toast, bagels, muffins; even as a topping for vanilla ice…

Robyn Savoie
Feb 2014
Advanced
2 votes
5419 views