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Flourless Chocolate Cookies

September 5, 2011 by Alea Milham 8 Comments

This flourless chocolate cookies recipe are chewy and taste like brownies! You can even add your favorite brownie add-ins if you wish. Flourless chocolate cookies are delicious and easy to make. The ingredient list is similar to a meringue cookie recipe except this uses whole eggs instead of just egg whites. The directions are differentRead More

Mixed Berry Pie Recipe

Granola Bar Pie Crust and Mixed Berry Pie

July 5, 2011 by Alea Milham 3 Comments

My daughter’s friend shared the idea of using granola bars to make a pie crust with my daughter. It is an easy alternative to making a graham cracker pie crust or a cookie pie crust and it only uses 2 ingredients: crunchy granola bars and butter. Granola Bar Pie Crust Recipe Yield: 1 – 9in. pieRead More

There Must Be 50 Ways to Frost a Brownie

January 21, 2011 by Alea Milham 17 Comments

I have been quite busy lately and feel like I am being pulled in many different directions. My coping mechanism is brownies with frosting. Many years of stress have led me to perfect several different frostings. I have shared these recipes before (I have even reduced the Mocha Fudge frosting to 140 characters and tweetedRead More

Little Bear's marshmallow Mixed Berry Pie Recipe

Marshmallow Mixed Berry Pie

August 3, 2010 by Alea Milham 25 Comments

This Marshmallow Mixed Berry Pie recipe takes a little bit of time to create, but the effort will be greatly appreciated by your Little Bear! My youngest son formerly spent a large portion of each day pretending to be Little Bear. For many months he even called me Mother Bear instead of mommy. He oftenRead More

a slice of earthquake cake recipe

Earthquake Cake

July 16, 2010 by Alea Milham 12 Comments

Try this easy Earthquake Cake recipe for a delicious and impressive dessert! Doctoring a chocolate cake mix has never been tastier. I am not a huge fan of cake mixes, but I do occasionally enjoy doctoring cake mixes. This doctored cake mix recipe was passed on to me by a friend. I can’t remember why,Read More

old-fashioned no-bake cookies

Chocolate Peanut Butter No-Bake Cookies

June 29, 2010 by Alea Milham 17 Comments

The chocolate peanut butter no-bake cookies are one of my childhood favorites! I usually enjoy baking for my family, but today it was 101 degrees and I did not feel like turning on the oven. Even on hot days, my children require a bit of sugar to keep them sweet, so I made these easyRead More

Lemon Poppy Seed Bundt Cake

Lemon Poppy Seed Bundt Cake

February 25, 2010 by Alea Milham 8 Comments

This is a “healthy” lemon poppy seed bundt cake, sweetened with honey instead of refined sugar (if you decide not to glaze it). While I officially named this Lemon Poppy Bundt Seed, we almost named it Everything but the Kitchen Sink Cake when my two year old pulled up a chair and started throwing thingsRead More

Easy Way to Roll Out Shortbread or Sugar Cookies + Shortbread Recipe

February 12, 2010 by Alea Milham 12 Comments

The great thing about Shortbread, besides the fact that it is made of pantry staples, is that your children can pretend it is Lembas Bread. The bad thing about shortbread is trying to roll it out! After discussing the problems of rolling out shortbread with a friend, I decided to post pictures of how IRead More

sliced tomato soup cake

Tomato Soup Cake

February 3, 2010 by Alea Milham 15 Comments

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 Triple Chocolate Bundt Cake Recipe using a boxed cake mix, pudding, and chocolate chips.

Easy Triple Chocolate Bundt Cake

December 3, 2009 by Alea Milham 12 Comments

This Triple Chocolate Bundt Cake recipe is made with a boxed cake mix, chocolate pudding, and chocolate chips. Two weeks ago I hosted a dinner party for 15. On the day of the party, we had 80+ wind gusts that did significant damage to both my backyard fence and the pasture fences. Instead of makingRead More

Double Chocolate Chip Cookies

October 22, 2009 by Alea Milham 19 Comments

If you like chocolate, here is a recipe for chocolate chip cookies where the batter is chocolate too. Baking this batch of cookies was the most fun I have had baking in years! I had help, lots of help from my youngest son. When I started pulling out the ingredients, Rew pulled out the step-stoolRead More

Pumpkin Pie Spice Bundt Cake Recipe using a boxed cake mix, pumpkin puree, and pumpkin pie spice.

Easy Pumpkin Pie Spice Bundt Cake

October 6, 2009 by Alea Milham 29 Comments

This easy pumpkin spice bundt cake is made by doctoring a packaged cake mix. I found a recipe from a homeschool friend for a pumpkin pie spice bundt cake using a box of spice cake mix.  But I didn’t have any spice cake mix on hand, so I modified the directions to make it workRead More

Tips for decorating sugar cookies plus easy recipes for sugar cookies and butter cream frosting

Easy Sugar Cookies and Butter Cream Frosting

September 25, 2009 by Alea Milham 20 Comments

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

finished classic fudge recipe using marshmallow cream and chocolate chips

Easy Homemade Fudge

July 30, 2009 by Alea Milham 9 Comments

This quick and easy fudge recipe uses chocolate chips and marshmallow cream to simplify the process of making fudge, creating a smooth, sweet chocolate treat with minimal effort. Ideal for homemade holiday candy, Christmas gifts, or simple family desserts, this easy chocolate fudge is perfect for beginners and experienced cooks alike. One of my earliestRead More

Peanut Butter Fudge and Peanut Butter Tip

July 13, 2009 by Alea Milham 10 Comments

Learn how to make this delicious peanut butter fudge recipe easily with our simple fudge recipe and helpful tips for success. 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 IRead More

Scotcheroos Peanut Butter Rice Krispie Treats in a stack.

Scotcheroos Peanut Butter Rice Krispie Treats

June 26, 2009 by Alea Milham 6 Comments

Do you love the combination of rich butterscotch, peanut butter, and chocolate? 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. ButRead More

Cola Cake

Cola Cake

June 16, 2009 by Alea Milham 5 Comments

If you haven’t ever tried cola cake, you’re in for a real treat! When I was growing up, we called this Rocky Road Cake, but I discovered that it was also called cola cake when I lived in the south. It is extremely decadent; after looking at the ingredients you will tell me that IRead More

A Zucchini

Chocolate Zucchini Cake

June 12, 2009 by Alea Milham 3 Comments

Nothing says Chocolate Cake Quite Like a Zucchini! Those of you with a garden know that one zucchini plant can produce so much that it challenges you to find ways to use them.  There are many delicious and nutritious way to serve zucchini; I recommend cooking it in chocolate cake! It is easy to eatRead More

Berries and Cream Pie

Strawberry Cream Pie

May 27, 2009 by Alea Milham 2 Comments

Like most pies, this one takes a little time, but the result is well worth it! This pie is my daughter’s specialty. We frequently ask her to make it for us. We feel a little less guilty about eating pie when it is filled with fresh strawberries. She adapted her Strawberry Cream Pie from aRead More

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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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