Recipes under $3

Comeback Sauce

This creamy, tangy, sweet, and savory Comeback Sauce is great for dipping, drizzling, smearing, and smothering all of your favorite foods.

A hand dipping one oven baked steak fry into ranch dressing

Oven Baked Steak Fries

$1.05 recipe / $0.53 serving

These incredibly crispy, thick cut, Oven Baked Steak Fries are seasoned to perfection with steak seasoning for maximum flavor in every bite!

Cottage Cheese Crab Bowl

$1.21 each

This Cottage Cheese Crab Bowl is the perfect light, fresh, and filling lunch for summer. It also meal preps well, so pack a few to take to work for lunch!

No Knead Focaccia Bread

$1.31 recipe / $0.11 serving

This hearty no knead focaccia bread recipe is incredibly simple to make and is perfect for sandwiches, soup, pizza, or just snacking!

A hand dipping a fresh strawberry into the fruit dip on a fruit platter

Honey Vanilla Cottage Cheese Fruit Dip

$0.94 recipe / $0.24 serving

Cottage cheese is whipped up into a silky smooth texture, sweetened with honey, and flavored with vanilla in this deliciusly sensible dessert fruit dip.

Overhead view of a plate with three rice pancakes, a cup of coffee and orange on the side

Leftover Rice Pancakes

$0.71 recipe / $0.36 serving

Use your leftover rice from the night before to make these quick and easy Rice Pancakes for breakfast. Reduce food waste and keep your budget in check!

Piece of pepperoni pizza being pulled out the side of the pizza

No-Yeast Pizza Dough

$0.92 recipe / $0.23 serving

This quick and easy no yeast pizza dough only takes 15 minutes to make and is a great substitute for the classic when ingredients are in short supply.

Sesame Tuna Salad

$3.09 recipe / $1.55 serving

This fun spin on canned tuna is savory, sweet, and nutty. Sesame Tuna Salad is great on crackers, sliced cucumber, in lettuce wraps, or on salad greens.

A pot full of sesame rice with a bowl of sesame rice on the side, both garnished with green onion

Simple Sesame Rice

$1.11 recipe / $0.28 serving

Adding just a few ingredients to your rice can really make your meal pop. Try this Simple Sesame Rice with any of your Southeast Asian inspired meals.