Quick and easy cocktail party recipes with 500 or fewer calories costing less than $0.5 per serving

Skinny, Mini Mexican Meatball Tostada Appetizers

Delight your guests with these itty, bitty meatballs atop a mini tostada. This is such a yummy and simple…

Easy Candied Pecans

A snack for the gods! Sprinkle atop your favorite greens, blue cheese topped or chicken salad. For holiday entertaining leave the pecans in halves…

Pâté with Bacon & Onion

A "pâté" (pah-TAY) is simply a paste of meat and a fat. It can be super fancy, or, as in this recipe, super simple. Guaranteed to impress your…

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…

Waffle

A lot of debate went into discovering the origins of waffles. For all we know, the answer has yet to be discovered. But we do know where it will end…

Sun-dried Tomato Hummus

This is an easy to make, full of flavor dip.

Jalapeno Corn Muffins

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.

Homemade Chocolate Milk Shakes

A frugal way to make a homemade chocolate milk shake when you don't have any ice cream on hand. You will not believe how delicious these shakes are!

Peanut Butter Cookies

Easy, delicious peanut butter cookies. The kids love them and can make them on their own, they're so easy.

Bacon & Tomato Cups

Orange Iced Tea with Mint and Lime

Last year a friend of mine from Hong Kong got a packet of Chinese tea leaves called "Poli", I am not a tea…

Applesauce Raisin Cookies

Chocolate Dreams

Tropical Snowdrops

The dried fruit can be anything you'd like, that's "Tropical". Cashews are also good to use....