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Premeditated Leftovers™

Prep-Ahead Meals, Cooking Tips, and Frugal Living


Tomato Soup Cake

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This old-fashioned tomato soup cake recipe tastes like a spice cake. You can cook this vintage cake recipe in a loaf pan or in a cake pan. First let me say, this cake tastes much better than it sounds! This recipe originated in the late 1920s or early 1930s. It was enormously popular throughout theRead More

Easy Applesauce Bundt Cake

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This semi-homemade applesauce cake is made by doctoring a plain white or yellow cake mix. What do you do when you want to make a cake, but you don’t have a lot of time? make a bundt cake. They are elegant and you can get away from putting a simple glaze on top and callingRead More

Easy Triple Chocolate Bundt Cake

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Two weeks ago I gave a dinner party for 15 and on the day of the party we had 80+ wind gusts that did significant damage to my back yard and the pasture fences. Instead of making the elaborate homemade dessert that I had planned for the party, I was being blown about trying to makeRead More

Easy Pumpkin Pie Spice Bundt Cake

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I found a recipe for a pumpkin pie spice bundt cake using a box of spice cake mix in a from a homeschool friend. I didn’t have any spice cake mix on hand, so I modified the directions to make it work with the yellow cake mix I had in my pantry. The Pumpkin PieRead More

Easy Sugar Cookies and Butter Cream Frosting

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Decorating Sugar Cookies is a traditional holiday activity. Below are tips to make decorating cookies a little easier. Tips for Decorating Sugar Cookies How to Make Colored Sugar: Put plain white sugar in bowls and then add a couple drops of food color to make colored sugar. I also make colored coconut in this manner.Read More

Easy Homemade Fudge

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One of my earliest memories is of my Dad making this fudge at the holidays. My Dad handed over the recipe and the responsibility for making fudge to me when I was in my teens. It is quite easy to make. Like my peanut butter fudge recipe, the marshmallow cream simplifies the process and makesRead More

Peanut Butter Fudge and Peanut Butter Tip

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Peanut butter fudge is one of our favorite candies, but as much as we enjoy it, we have a friend who declares it her absolute favoritist candy EVER. Before I visit her, she asks if I will be bringing her some peanut butter fudge…and the correct answer is “Yes, of course!” I keep trying to convince herRead More

Scotcheroos Peanut Butter Rice Krispie Treats

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Scotcheroos Peanut Butter Rice Krispie Treats combine the flavor of Scotcheroos with the ease of making Rice Krispie Treats. Scotcheroos are made with Rice Krispies, peanut butter, chocolate chips, and butterscotch chips. Like Rice Krispie Treats, Scotcharoos are a no-bake bar recipe. The difference is Scotcheroos are made by heating corn syrup and sugar toRead 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.