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Premeditated Leftovers™

Prep-Ahead Meals, Cooking Tips, and Frugal Living


5 Simple Tips to Reduce Financial Stress

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Improve your finances and ease your mind with these 5 tips to reduce financial stress. Living paycheck to paycheck can put anyone under a lot of stress. When your financial situation is unstable, it can cause you to feel overwhelmed and short-fused and make it hard to cope with other things going on in dailyRead More

6 Ways Rich People Are Frugal

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Even rich people need to be frugal with their money. Check out these 6 Ways Rich People Are Frugal and learn how you can become frugal too! Do you look at rich people and wonder how they manage to keep their wealth?  Just because someone is rich, it doesn’t mean they want to be carelessRead More

Welcome. I'm Alea!

On Premeditated Leftovers I share simple recipes made with whole foods, practical shopping tips, time saving techniques, and meal planning strategies. I also share tips for minimizing food waste, so more of the food that is purchased ends up on the table.

While volunteering as a budget counselor, I realized that food is the element of most people’s budgets where they have the greatest control. I set out to develop low-cost recipes from scratch to prove it’s possible to create delicious meals on a limited budget. Eating well while spending less is about more than just creating recipes using inexpensive ingredients; it’s about creatively combining ingredients so you don’t feel deprived and are inspired to stick to your budget.