Low Calorie Main Dish Recipes

"When I was a child, my family used to eat this at least once a week due to the fact that it is inexpensive and a little goes a long way. We also added fresh herbs or sometimes whole kernel corn. Its even better the next day and it freezes well."

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Ingredients: pepper, elbow macaroni...

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Ingredients: dried basil, eggs, escarole...

"Really healthy soup, good to use when there's no time to spend in the kitchen!"

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Ingredients: cracked black pepper, fresh spinach...

"These are wonderful and are almost too healthy to be true. Lots of calcium, protein, fiber, etc. I usually eat them without any topping and just keep popping them in my mouth! Yum. But a good jam will do them nicely as well."

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Ingredients: cottage cheese, egg whites...

"Barely nutritional meal suitable for all miscreant children."

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Ingredients: water, whole wheat bread...

"Herby, spicy shrimp with a kick, in a buttery-beer "sauce". Fast, easy and delicious, serve as an appetizer, or a dinner over rice or with lots of crusty French bread to soak up all the tasty, herbalicious sauce!"

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Ingredients: dried basil, shrimp...

"This is my own version of Panera Bread's black bean soup. It tastes a lot like it, and I love it! Use vegetable stock to make it vegetarian."

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Ingredients: cornstarch, cumin, onions...

"Sometimes you just don't have all day to make Vietnamese soup! You can have this made and in your hands in 15 minutes!"

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Ingredients: cellophane noodles, fresh basil...

"I loved it when Mom used to make this for us! I have no idea if she originally made it for Dad, who had been in the army, or if she just liked it because it tasted good and was a budget stretcher. A traditional favorite, good ol' SOS. Note: the title of this recipe specifies that it is made ground beef, rather than chipped beef; "authentic"..."

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Ingredients: beef bouillon powder, cayenne powder...

"The only way to eat fresh tomatoes! In anticipation of the impending tomato harvest, I share with you a family secret. This is the reason we look forward to the end of summer, to the time when our gardens and our friends gardens are bursting with little red-skinned treasures. When I tell anyone about this, besides my brother and sister -- we learned..."

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Ingredients: pepper, peanut butter, salt...

"We've all heard how anti-oxidants fight cancer, save eyesight, and prevent clogged arteries. Turns out lutein, a delicious 7 mg dose of which is supplied with each serving of this recipe, is even more beneficial than beta carotene. It delays lung aging and combats arthritis to boot! Who knew improving your health could be so quick and easy, and taste..."

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Ingredients: diced tomatoes, kale...