American recipes costing less than $0.5 per serving

Banana Nut Appetizer

These quartered slices of fresh bananas with mayo and pecans make a delicious appetizer course for your holiday meal or dinner party.

In-a-Pinch Cranberry Sauce made from Dried Cranberries

I serve turkey year round but forget to keep canned cranberry sauce on hand; even when I do it's hard to use up…

Yogurt Cool Whip Fruit Dip

Thick and Chewy Gingerbread Cookies

Source: Cooks Illustrated Because flour is not added during rolling, dough scraps can be rolled and cut as…

16 Bean Soup

Classic Romanoff Sauce for strawberries

for comparison here is a classic Romanoff sauce to serve on strawberries, close to the version served at La…

quick "Romanoff" sauce for fruit

a lighter, quick and easy play on the classic Strawberries Romanoff sauce. this version is 16 calories per 29…

Hot Rice Cereal

Hot Rice in Milk; Toast, Margarine & Jelly; Orange Juice; Hot Tea. Economy breakft.

Greek Salad Dressing and Bread Dip

Greek salad ingredients in the form of a dressing for salads (Romaine, mesclun mix, and tomato/cucumber salad),…

Cranberry Cole Slaw

Are you craving crunchy freshness right about now? When meltingly tender slow-cooked stews and soups predominate. They are welcome, but sometimes…

Pineapple Upside Down Cup Cake

make 1 or a dozen~~they are GREAT for breakfast, lunch or a desert!!! Love em!!! Try new flavors!! Baked one at a time in a CUP!!!

Homemade Peanut Butter

Homemade Peanut Butter - 4 ingredients and less than 10 minutes

Healthy Coffee Latte Shake

Quick way to get some vitamins into my picky daughters. They love this.

Mom's No Bake Cookies

My mom used to make these all the time when my sister and I were young. She used to help her mother make them for the family when she was a kid.…

Creamy Fresh Herb Salad Dressing

I have a small herb garden in the summer and frequently make this for my customers.