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Cinnamon Caramel Apple Puppy Chow Snack Mix- Enjoy the sweet flavors of cinnamon and caramel apple in this crunchy puppy chow recipe. It's sure to be a hit!

Cinnamon Caramel Apple Puppy Chow Snack Mix

October 22, 2015 by Ann 2 Comments

This Cinnamon Caramel Apple Puppy Chow Snack Mix is a great treat for the holiday season. It’s a delicious blend of your favorite flavors in a crunchy treat that is great for enjoying with your family, or bagging up and giving as a gift to friends and family. Every holiday party has the classic snackRead More

Salted Caramel Rice Krispies With Pumpkin Fudge Topping- These rice krispie treats are divine. Pumpkin, caramel, and chocolate give them quite the makeover!

Salted Caramel Rice Krispies with Pumpkin Fudge Topping

October 21, 2015 by Ann 2 Comments

These Salted Caramel Rice Krispies with Pumpkin Fudge Topping are amazing!  What more could you ask for when you have all of these favorite items together in one place?  Rice Krispies are a childhood favorite, but the addition of some salted caramel, pumpkin, and chocolate make this recipe one that will have you fighting theRead More

Pumpkin Spice Chai Latte Recipe

Pumpkin Spiced Chai Latte

October 21, 2015 by Alea Milham Leave a Comment

This pumpkin spice chai latte recipe combines the flavors of pumpkin spice lattes and chai lattes for a delicious fall treat. It wouldn’t be fall without a Pumpkin Spice Chai latte or two or three! Pumpkin spice is one of my favorite things about fall and I enjoy Chai Lattes year-round, so I had toRead More

How to Make a Substitute for Condensed Tomato Soup - This quick and easy Substitute for Condensed Tomato Soup can be used to replace tomato soup in recipes.

Substitute for Condensed Tomato Soup

October 21, 2015 by Alea Milham 54 Comments

Whether your pantry is bare or you have dietary restrictions, if you need a substitute for condensed tomato soup in a recipe, you will find that this quick and easy condensed tomato soup recipe works very well! Are you ever disappointed with a product after you read the ingredient list? Yeah, me too! Even whenRead More

Broiled Zucchini Pizza Bites Recipe

Broiled Zucchini Pizza Bites

October 20, 2015 by Alea Milham Leave a Comment

This broiled zucchini pizza bites recipe is a delicious way to use up your zucchini from the garden! My kids will eat anything if I make a pizza flavored version of it. And I’ll be honest, I have milked this weakness of my kids to get them to eat more vegetables. I have even usedRead More

Pumpkin, Blueberry, and Date Smoothies- Fall is the perfect time to whip up this delicious smoothie for a healthy dose of pumpkin, blueberries, and dates.

Pumpkin, Blueberry, and Date Smoothie

October 19, 2015 by D Durand Leave a Comment

In an attempt to live and eat better we try a lot of things. We exercise, sweat, and experience pain. The likes of which can be purely torturous. We even subject ourselves to odd foods and ignore cravings the body craves like an addiction. We’ll even have a measure of success, and we feel asRead More

homemade snickerdoodle fudge recipe

Homemade Snickerdoodle Fudge

October 19, 2015 by Alea Milham 8 Comments

This easy Snickerdoodle Fudge recipe is a Cinnamon Fudge topped with Cinnamon Sugar, and it’s even more delicious than snickerdoodle cookies! Snickerdoodles are my favorite cookie, so when I saw Snickerdoodle Fudge at a fudge shop I had to try it. I was disappointed in the store-bought fudge and decided that I needed to tryRead More

Pumpkin Spice Bark Candy Recipe - This quick and easy pumpkin spice bark only takes 4 ingredients and can be made in 15 minutes! Perfect for fall parties.

Pumpkin Spice Bark Candy

October 18, 2015 by Alea Milham 16 Comments

This quick and easy Pumpkin Spice Bark Candy Recipe only uses 4 ingredients and can be made in 15 minutes! I was picking up a few things at Walmart last week and happened to discover some Pumpkin Spice Morsels. I decided I needed to pick some up to try in recipes. I think they would beRead More

Snickerdoodle French Toast Sticks- If you are a fan of Snickerdoodle cookies, try this yummy french toast stick recipe for your next breakfast or brunch!

Snickerdoodle French Toast Sticks

October 15, 2015 by Jody 1 Comment

My kids love french toast and I have to admit that I do too. Sometimes for special occasions like you know, a Tuesday, I like to dress it up and get a little fancy with the flavors. This past weekend it was Snickerdoodle- delicious and crunchy French toast sticks that didn’t even need any syrup!Read More

Homemade Cajun Seasoning Recipe

Homemade Cajun Seasoning Mix

October 15, 2015 by Alea Milham 2 Comments

My family loves Cajun spiced dishes, so I use my Homemade Cajun Seasoning Mix in a variety of recipes. Use can use this Cajun Seasoning Recipe as a rub on fish, to add flavor to  roasted vegetables, or to season rice and beans. You can even use this Cajun spice mix to add flavor to homemade chips, roastedRead More

10 Amazing Butternut Squash Recipes- Here are 10 butternut squash recipes to inspire you this fall as well as easy instructions for homemade squash puree.

10 Amazing Butternut Squash Recipes

October 13, 2015 by Christine T Leave a Comment

When fall rolls in I start seeing different squashes and gourds pop up in the stores and farmer’s markets and I get excited about the cooler weather. There is something so warm and inviting about this season that no other season has! Being that I am not a huge squash fan, I will admit IRead More

Pork Roast and Acorn Squash Recipe with orange Cinnamon Glaze

Pork Roast and Acorn Squash

October 12, 2015 by Alea Milham 5 Comments

This pork roast and acorn squash recipe is cooked in an orange-cinnamon glaze. A couple years ago, I bought incorrectly marked seeds and accidentally planted acorn squash when I thought I was planting pumpkins. The plants were incredibly productive. I had tons of acorn squash and limited experience with preparing it. After butchering several ofRead More

How to make Crisco frosting.

Crisco Frosting

October 9, 2015 by Alea Milham 88 Comments

Here is our classic white Crisco Frosting recipe, which is sometimes referred to as Vanilla Crisco Frosting. Did you know you can make frosting with Crisco shortening? It may sound weird, but it is true. Crisco frosting was quite popular in the 1960s and 1970s. It was an easy way to make icing when youRead More

Sweet Buffalo Dip- This homemade buffalo dip is a great way to spice up veggies or chicken. Give it a try for an easy dipping sauce that is sweet and tangy.

Sweet Buffalo Dip

October 9, 2015 by Jody Leave a Comment

I have a confession to make- I have a childish side that insists that I have a dip for nearly everything I eat from meat to veggies. Is that a childish thing?  I love most foods even more with some kind of creamy or chunky dip infusing extra flavor into it. If it has aRead More

Vanilla Depression Cake- This vanilla cake became famous during the depression when staples like milk and eggs were scarce. It is delicious and inexpensive.

Vanilla Depression Cake

October 8, 2015 by Ann 59 Comments

This vanilla depression cake recipe is sometimes called Crazy Cake because it is made without eggs, milk, or butter. This Vanilla Depression Cake is something that many will remember grandma making when they were a kid. This delicious cake is famous for being so easy to make during the Great Depression when things like milk,Read More

Iced Pumpkin Sugar Cookies-These cookies take a bit of preparation, but are a delicious and beautiful choice to create for your upcoming holiday events!

Iced Pumpkin Sugar Cookies

October 1, 2015 by Ann 8 Comments

These Iced Pumpkin Sugar Cookies are adorable.  They are pumpkin-shaped sugar cookies coated in icing and then topped with elegant scrolls of orange icing. Everyone loves these Iced Pumpkin Sugar Cookies since they taste wonderful and look so beautiful.  Iced cookies aren’t as hard to make as you think, and this recipe will help you toRead More

How to Make Traditional Toffee Recipe and Tutorial with step by step pictures

Easy Homemade Toffee

September 28, 2015 by Alea Milham 28 Comments

My family loves my Homemade Toffee recipe. In fact, they like it so much that when I make Christmas candies to share with our friends the first batch of this toffee doesn’t make it out of the house. Toffee makes a great gift. It has the wow factor because everyone thinks it is difficult toRead More

These Oreo & White Chocolate Covered Apples are a great addition to your holiday treats table. They are easy to make, delicious for everyone to enjoy, and of course they display beautifully.

Oreo & White Chocolate Coated Apples

September 28, 2015 by Ann Leave a Comment

Do you love Oreos?  If so, then this fun and easy recipe for Oreo & White Chocolate Coated Apples is going to blow your mind.  How can you make an Oreo cookie healthy?  By adding it to an apple of course!  This is a fun recipe that will please everyone in your family including the kidsRead More

Homemade Pesto Sauce Recipe is a great way to use up basil from your garden

Homemade Pesto Sauce

September 27, 2015 by Alea Milham 6 Comments

Are you in a rush to do something with your herbs before the first freeze arrives? I mass harvest all of my outdoor herbs before the first freeze hits and kills off many of my plants. I dry many of my herbs to use throughout the year. I also freeze some of my herbs. However,Read More

How to Dry Herbs including how to prepare fresh herbs, air drying herbs, how to dry herbs in a microwave, oven drying herbs, and how to store dried herbs.

How to Dry Herbs – 4 Methods to Dry Fresh Herbs

September 27, 2015 by Alea Milham 4 Comments

I enjoy growing herbs and being able to use fresh herbs in recipes throughout the summer. However, once the herbs begin to bolt or colder temperatures threaten the plants with a freeze, I know it is time for me to give up my fresh herbs and dry the herbs, so I can use the dried herbs all winter long. ThereRead 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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