What You Can Substuide Ingredients With Recipes

A delicious stroganoff that requires minimal pre-processed ingredients. No canned soups here!

Quick and nutritious, this zesty take on pasta salad is a family favorite. Garnish with fresh herbs and black olives.

5 Bean Salad or Dip Style

Very simple and healthy chili recipe to make. Just throw all ingredients together and cook for one hour. You can adjust the amount of jalapenos and chili powder to make it more spicy if you would like.

Great on a cold winter evening can be used as a side dish or dessert

I'm currently sick and needed a quick and easy soup to make that wasn't canned because the canned soups seem too heavy for me to finish.

Cheap on calories only

Great on a cold winter night!

Very tasty version of Shepards Pie

I just throw this together for breakfast or a snack. You could use light canned pears or another canned fruit, sometimes I also use fresh pears. Also you can use fat free cottage cheese, or lower fat cottage cheese.

Dried beans really aren't that much more work than canned, and they taste better too.

A unique way to enjoy canned tuna.

A low fat/low sugar alternative to canned cream corn.

This can be made with any ground meat, even with canned tuna

Very simple recipe using canned soup, sour cream, chicken, broccoli and crackers

This is so easy and delicious. I love it on cold days. It also freezes and re-heats very well.
I garnish with a little fat free sour cream and some of the Light tortilla chips (garnishes not included in nutritional info).

This makes a hearty and filling soup!

To use in place of canned cream soups in casseroles or as a base for
your own soups. It is much lower in fat and salt than the canned versions. The trick is to have it made up ready to use.
*Note* For my bouillon cubes, 1/2 cube = 1 tsp. bouillon granules. 12 tsp. =1/4 cup

This is something my mother cooked in the 1960s and 70s. It's a variation on hamburger hotdish, and an easy stove-top recipe. Embellish at will with sour cream, chiles, spices.

A basic hearty low-fat Turkey Chili with a splash of Lime and a hint of Cilantro for a fresh and slightly zesty flavor.

Keep summer's freshest green beans around a bit longer by making quick refrigerator pickles.

Prepare ahead in a slow cooker

I put lots of veggies in my chili. You can make this with lean ground turkey to make it even healthier!

Soooooo good!!!

A very easy dish to fix in crockpot.

Tuna salad