American recipes with 500 or fewer calories costing less than $1.0 per serving with photo added by professional chefs

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Pepperoni Pizza Dip

A dip that pizza lovers will love. Serve with breadsticks, baguette pieces, or one of the new pita chips, or other fun crackers on the market.…

My Skinny Recipe for Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte

Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte is a staple for coffee lovers each autumn. It’s smooth, sweet-yet-spicy flavor is…

Red Cabbage Coleslaw

Think outside the box for your next slaw with this creamy deep red cabbage version. The dried cranberries are camouflaged by the cabbage color and…

Easy Tex-Mex Refried Bean Dip

Inexpensive, easy prep recipe that guests will love. I sometimes use this recipe to make quesadillas, too.

Breakfast Muffins

A light, flaky biscuit topped with egg, sausage, and cheese - in a convenient muffin.

Sour Cream Yeast Dinner Rolls

A minimum knead recipe for delicious, slighty sweet, soft rolls that kids will love, too.

Cookie Butter Blondies

I am so in love with Cookie Butter, I want to incorporate it into everything I make for the rest of my life. Okay, maybe not, but it wouldn’t be the…

Marinated Cheese Dip

Try this with crackers, or warm French bread slices.

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…

Quick & Easy Fruit Compote with Vanilla Sauce (and a no-added sugar or low-sugar variation)

A fruit compote on the table in 15 minutes? Here's a dessert kids (and…

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…

New Best Angel Biscuits

Wonderfully moist and light when first out of the oven. Butter and honey never had such a great companion.

Festive Broccoli Salad for a Large Group

I prepare this during the holidays, but it's also a great potluck salad. From "Southern Living" magazine,…

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…