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Quick and Easy Leftover Recipes

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200 Quick and Easy Leftover Recipes - Tips and Ideas to Save Money on Groceries and Avoid Food Waste

One of the easiest ways to save money on groceries is to ensure your food doesn’t go to waste. You can use your leftovers to create an easy lunch if you have an extra serving or two of leftovers. If you have lots of different leftovers, but in small quantities, you can create a leftover buffet for your family, letting everyone fill their plate with their favorite leftover dishes. But what do you do when you have a lot of one particular item leftover from dinner? I like to use leftovers to create quick and easy meals. Since the leftovers are already cooked it cuts down on the prep time of the “encore meal”.

Before I share the leftover recipes, I want to share a few tips for working with leftovers. Here is information on how to store leftovers and here are tips for reheating leftovers. You want to ensure you are not over cooking your leftovers or you will lose nutrients.

Quick and Easy Leftover Recipes

Leftover Chicken Recipes

Leftover Ham Recipes

Leftover Fish Recipes

Leftover Steak Recipes

Leftover Roast Recipes

Leftover Turkey Recipes

Leftover Chili Recipes

Leftover Rice Recipes

Leftover Coffee Recipes

Leftover Bread Recipes

Leftover Mashed Potato Recipes

Leftover Spaghetti Sauce Recipes

Leftover Barbecue Chicken Recipes

Holiday Leftover Recipes

Leftover Halloween Candy Recipes

Thanksgiving Leftovers Recipes

Leftover Easter Ham Recipes

Leftover Candy Cane Recipes

How to Use Leftover Bones to Make Broth

Don’t toss your meat bones! You can use them to add flavor to beans or soups when you cook them. You can also use them to make broth. If you don’t have time to make broth as soon as you clean the meat from the bones, freeze the bones and then use them to make broth at a later time.

How to Make Beef Broth in a Slow Cooker

How to Make Chicken Broth in a Slow Cooker

How to Make Turkey Broth in a Crock Pot

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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.

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