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Premeditated Leftovers™

Prep-Ahead Meals, Cooking Tips, and Frugal Living


How to Prepare and Eat Clover

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Use these tips on how to prepare and eat clover to add this common plant to your diet. Do you love the sight of clover blossoms popping up in your yard? Clover blossoms come in all sorts of colors from soft pink to purple, to white and are quite pleasing to the eye. But didRead More

Red Clover Tea Recipe

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You can use clover flowers to make this red clover tea recipe. My husband would prefer a weed-free lawn, but indulges my desire to allow the dandelions and clover to coexist with the grass. We do not put chemicals on our lawn, so that we may enjoy our weeds. 🙂 Red clover is a sourceRead 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.