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Premeditated Leftovers™

Prep-Ahead Meals, Cooking Tips, and Frugal Living


How to Maintain Friendships as an Adult

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Making and maintaining friendships gets harder as we get older. Here are some tips on how to maintain friendships as an adult that will help you build up old and new friendships. It seems like such a simple thing. For most people, friendships naturally form and take on their own meanings. There are private jokes betweenRead More

How to Avoid Negativity in Your Daily Life

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These tips on how to avoid negativity will help you feel happier throughout the day. When in order to find happiness in our daily life, we need to eliminate the negativity that we are experiencing. It is incredibly hard to find a place of peace when you are feeling overwhelmed by negative things, people, andRead 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.