I've been using these sites to look for recipes low in calories and discovered that most “low-calorie” recipes aren’t really low in calories. And many of the big-recipe sites bomb big in that area.

     I’ve also learned that the chicken breasts featured in so many low-calorie recipes come out as dry as cardboard, unless they are thin-sliced into a sauce that bathes them in its juices as it cooks. Ditto lean pork, which I now cook using the same recipes as chicken breasts.

     I started with FOOD DOWN UNDER, which had more than 13,000 in the "low calorie" category. That was when I discovered that some contributors have strange ideas as to what really is low in calories. Despite this, I found about 25 great chicken breast recipes among the 13,000 low-calorie recipes. Each had a sauce that kept the meat moist as it cooked.

     The FOOD DOWN UNDER low-calorie recipes are in alphabetical order according to title. You'll find chicken recipes scattered throughout, but you will of course find a nest of them under the Cs. To check them out, click below, then put "low calorie" in the FOOD DOWN UNDER search box.

http://fooddownunder.com/

     COOKS.COM has 542 "low calorie" recipes, which to them, as with FOOD DOWN UNDER, mostly means LOWER in calories than the usual version, as in "low calorie cheesecake." This is a good place to come if you want a relatively low calorie dessert or salad dressing.

http://www.cooks.com/rec/search?q=low+calorie

     RECIPEZAAR.COM, which I so dearly love, bombed. Totally bombed. They have a chummy group of women who try one another's recipes and write glowing reports on them. BUT they post those recipes in any old section that's handy. After a number of "low calorie" recipes featuring cream and cheese, I departed.

     ALLRECIPES.COM, on the other hand, has a "Healthy Living" section that actually lives up to its name! To most of its contributors, "low calorie" means low in calories, a concept that escaped so many at the other sites. As long as people are allowed to post recipes in any category they choose, you'll always find a minority who think a cup of heavy cream is healthy and low in calories. But in general the Healthy Living section is a healthy find. If you'd like to give it a try, click below. I like it so well I'm working my way through it, copying into my word processing program all the recipes I'd like to try. That way, I'll wind up with a "mini-cookbook" of the kind of healthy recipes Bill and I both enjoy.

     (NOTE from later on: I now use that “mini-cookbook” constantly. Love it!)

http://allrecipes.com/Recipes/Healthy-Living/Low-Calorie/ViewAll.aspx