Menu For A Month Recipes

Alfredo is back on the menu!

There's no need to buy pumpkin pie spice. You can easily make your own at home. And it makes a great hostess gift for any fall event! Feel free to double or triple this recipe!

We have this soup at least once a week in the colder months of the year.

This pumpkin smoothie is a sweet and healthy treat perfect for cooler months.

Vanilla Wafer Cookies are chewy and irresistible and they're a wonderful way to round out a penny-pinching menu.

Use left over chicken
Quick. My version of semi-homemade

These muffins incorporate multiple grains and fruits and lower sugar content to make a heavier, heartier muffin worthy of being called a good breakfast!

Forget buying packets of seasonings. They're expensive and often full of salt. Save sodium and money by making this easy herb blend. Use it in sauces, soups, stews, on meats... anywhere you want to add Italian flavor without fat or sodium!

A great protein and fiber packed snack alone, or use as a topping for salads and soups.

This salt-free spicy Cajun rub is delicious on grilled shrimp! You can also use it to give your jambalaya an extra kick.

We take this to Holiday parties and on camping trips. Dress up the jar, and it makes a great Holiday gift.

Excellent relish with turkey

I love to use unsweetened cocoa powder in rubs for pork. It offers a great depth to the flavor.

Want to know the secret to great chili? Start with great spices--and skip the packets at the supermarket, which are full of sugar and salt. Make your own to save money and skip the salt.

If you love fajitas, but are watching your sodium intake, try this salt-free rub! It lends a complex flavor to meat without the high sodium counts traditionally found in Mexican dishes.

A refreshing vegetarian pizza to eat on a hot day -- or to remind you of summertime during the winter months.

Very quick and easy to make. My whole family loved it - including a picky 20 month old!

This is a fantastic, healthy, and hearty salad -- especially during the summer months, as it can be served warm, room temperature, or cold.

As delicious as it is nutritious, this quick and easy hearty low-fat vegetable soup hits the spot in cold fall and winter months!

Not the healthiest meal in the world, but my family loves them - so I make them once a month.

Fresh and juicy during spring and summer months, strawberries are delicious when combined with tender spinach, creamy goat cheese and crunchy toasted almonds.

At just 260 calories per serving, this hearty stew will carry you straight through the winter months!

Make a batch of dough early in the month, then bake up these simple cookies as needed.

Panzanella is an Italian salad that can be found on trendy bistro menus in the hot summer months. This salad was invented when times were tough, as a way to use up stale bread.

A healthy snack (only 1.7 g of fat and 139 cal) with only fresh ingredients. Fresh pumpkin puree and cranberries.

from Pinch of Yum

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