406 mocktail recipes

Strawberry-banana Jell-O salad with banana pudding, whipped topping, fruit cocktail, and walnuts. A fluffy retro picnic salad that's more dessert than side.

Beef short ribs marinated overnight in barbecue sauce, cocktail sauce, and white wine vinegar, then wood-smoked low and slow until tender. Includes charcoal, electric, and gas smoker instructions.

Fruit salad is always welcomed by kids and wwomen, this vanilla fruit salad is a good flavour!

Whole wheat couscous with brown lentils, fresh tomatoes, basil, and Parmesan simmered in vegetable juice. A low-fat vegetarian one-pot meal with hearty protein and bright Italian flavors.

Seafood cocktail salad with shrimp, avocado, honeydew, cantaloupe, orange, and strawberries on lettuce, dressed with a tangy cocktail-sauce-and-salad-dressing mix. A light summer main course.

Skidaddle cookies fold canned fruit cocktail and chopped walnuts into a brown-sugar drop cookie batter for a soft, fruity vintage cookie. A pantry-staple drop cookie that bakes in 12 minutes.

Taffy apple cookies: tender shortbread cookie balls dipped in melted caramel and rolled in crushed peanuts, with a toothpick stick so each one looks like a miniature caramel apple. A fun, nutty fall treat, no apple required.

Make delicious friendship cake with these homemade brandied fruit starter, it's going to impress everyone who has a taste of it.

A moist meatloaf made with ground beef, onion soup mix, cream of wheat, and V-8 juice. Glazed with ketchup halfway through baking and finished with a second pour of V-8 for extra flavor.

Raisin pecan bread pudding loaded with fruit cocktail and a vanilla-butternut custard. A nostalgic Southern bread pudding that uses up stale bread in 90 minutes.

Ham steak cabbage soup with V-8, tomato, celery, and onion, simmered slow into a hearty hug-in-a-bowl. Low-calorie, low-carb pantry-friendly soup that tastes like a much bigger pot of stew.

Frozen fruit salad with vanilla pudding, whipped cream, pineapple, pecans, and fruit cocktail. Make-ahead dessert that serves 10, perfect for holidays.

Light and lean baked red snapper fillets topped with a simmered vegetable sauce of celery, onion, and green pepper in vegetable juice. A quick low-calorie seafood dinner that's ready in under 45 minutes.

A traditional Danish Smørrebrød spread with smoked salmon, shrimp, roast beef, ham, blue cheese, eggs and fresh fruit on rye bread. A stunning no-cook platter that feeds 12.

One-pot whole wheat couscous with brown lentils, fresh tomatoes, basil, and Parmesan in a vegetable juice broth. A filling low-fat vegetarian dinner for two, ready in about an hour.

Pistachio ambrosia salad mixes canned fruit cocktail, pineapple and mandarin oranges with pistachio pudding, sour cream and whipped topping. A retro potluck dessert in every shade of green.