Canadian picnic recipes with 400 or fewer calories costing less than $2.5 per serving

Easy Oatmeal Cookies

Fast and easy oatmeal cookies that are thick with chewy edges and soft centers! One bowl to wash, no mixer to drag out.

Triple Berry Skillet Cake

Green tomato muffins

Your green tomatoes will not have time to ripen. Use them to make these delicious, healthy muffins your whole family will love.

Mercedes' green tomatoes cake

This is a great cake recipe to make at the end of summer when green tomatoes are plentiful. This is one of the most delicious cake I have ever…

Macaroni and slaw salad

This recipe comes from my Taste of Home cookbook. It is a delicious, easy to make and my go to salad recipe for potlucks.

Maple-Smoked Ribs

Who does not love juicy, spicy ribs? These ribs melt in your mouth.

Apple, Cinnamon Rice Pudding

Rice pudding with twist. My husband's favourite dessert.

Vegetarian Beet Burger

This vegetarian burger has the unusual addition of 1 tbsp of grated beets, just enough to give the burger a pleasant color. Once cooked, this…

Raw Vegetable Salad for a Crowd

Like many of my recipes, this one has been hanging around since the '70's, and it is always a huge hit. I have never tried to alter it in any way,…

Thai pickled beans or asparagus

I pickled green beans this way last year and we're still enjoying them now. Thai basil is relatively easy to find now, and is wonderful to grow.…

Carolyn's Cheesecake

It is DELICIOUS with fresh fruit!!!

Curried lentil and rice salad

A flavourful, curried lentil and rice salad for healthy conscious cooks.

Colourful Slaw

An eye catching slaw using green and red cabbages, yellow and red peppers and orange carrot for colourful salad to bring to a BBQ or a potluck.

Bernice's Vegetable Dip

An excellent, creamy, tangy, zippy dip to serve with fresh vegetables.

Herbed Dip

This is my favourite low calorie, fat free, savoury, all purpose dip. You can use it on baked potatoes or as a chip dip or as a dip for fresh…