Low-Calorie Recipes

This dish was always a favorite at Mammaw's house. Cabbage is fried with onion and bacon in this simple quick side dish. Terrific with cornbread.

This easy recipe for tilapia only takes a few minutes to prepare, uses few ingredients, and is flavorful.

The perfect meal! Preparation Time: 20 minutes. This recipe is from The WEBB Cooks, articles and recipes by Robyn Webb, courtesy of the American Diabetes Association.

These are roasted potatoes at their best - plain and simple. Red potatoes are tossed with olive oil, and salt and pepper, and then roasted to perfection.

Fresh green beans with a robust bacon, onion, and garlicky flavor.

My mother-in-law gave me this quick and easy recipe for the sweetest, tastiest corn cobs!

Wonderful roasted cauliflower, my 11 year old son loves this! Add more spices and herbs to suit your taste.

Russet potatoes are blended with roasted garlic, butter and milk. This recipe is a standard.

This simple black bean side dish works well with Mexican or Cuban meals.

Makes even tough asparagus, tender and tasty! Try using vinaigrette dressing in place of the butter too.

This is an easy recipe that can be prepared in a slow cooker for a great hot meal at the end of the day. Serve with hot cooked spaghetti noodles.

The smell of hot buttery turnips always reminds me of the holiday season when my grandmother prepared this dish for the family. Originally submitted to ThanksgivingRecipe.com.

This yummy, sweet and sour German red cabbage is easy to make!

The special thing about this recipe is that it's so simple. Fresh asparagus with a little oil, salt, and pepper is cooked quickly over high heat on the grill. Enjoy the natural flavor of your veggies.

My family's favorite vegetable. They are great for the holidays, too!

The 'no smell' fish recipe that is the ONLY one I make for my family (I hate fish, they LOVE it!). Take foil packets to table for service, and keep them around for the discarding of bones and skin. Then when dinner's done, haul those babies to the outside trash.

A classic recipe for collard greens that uses smoked turkey to add some flavor. Greens are simmered in chicken stock, then spiced with a dash of red chile flakes.

Quick and easy to prepare, and the kids love it too!

Make easy and quick meals with canned venison in stews, soups, sandwiches, or just heat and serve with rice, potatoes, or noodles and vegetable. The meat can be warmed and eaten as is or used in stews, chili or hot dishes or in sandwiches. Use the scaling feature to scale this recipe to the number of pounds of venison you have to can.

Easy and delicious pasta with chicken. Serve with crusty bread and salad for a quick dinner. Use as much or as little pesto sauce as you like. Using homemade pesto will taste even better, but it adds to prep time. Enjoy!

These baked apples taste simply great on a cold winter evening or any other evening. Plus the house smells just divine while cooking them.

Great on a summer's day with fresh corn and mashed potatoes.

Every time my family and I go to a Chinese buffet we make a bee line for the green beans! This is a simple and tasty re-creation of that much loved side dish, goes well with any Asian meal. Make sure to slice the garlic, don't use a garlic press. Oyster sauce can be found in the Asian section of your grocery store, at an Asian grocery store, and online.

You will never want to eat frozen veggie burgers again. These are so easy, and you'll be proud to have created such a vegetarian delight.