Recipes costing less than $2.5 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…

Weight Watchers Kale Spinach and Apple Smoothie

A quick note in her original recipe she called for pears and almond milk. Thanks to Joy the Baker Points:…

Garlic Hummus

Some recipes call for too much tahini. Others try too hard and call for red bell peppers or sun-dried tomatoes. I prefer to keep it simple:…

Hung Shao Sauce

A barbecue sauce, popular in parts of China and Korea.

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…

Homemade Juiced Juice

Because of oxidation, juice is at its peak immediately after you've extracted it. If you have a juicer, use it because the potency of the vitamins…

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…

Salsa

Hot Rice Cereal

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

Homemade Self-Rising Flour

Some cookbooks, particularly southern ones, list self-rising flour as an ingredient. Make up a batch of your own and keep it on hand.

Greek Salad Dressing and Bread Dip

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