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Premeditated Leftovers™

Prep-Ahead Meals, Cooking Tips, and Frugal Living


Homemade Basil Salt

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  I am going to teach you how to make your own Homemade Basil Salt for an elegant addition to recipes and for gifting. Do you have an overabundance of Basil that needs to be harvested before it goes to waste? I have the perfect recipe to use some of it up: Homemade Basil Salt.Read More

Homemade Fajita Seasoning

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My family loves both chicken fajitas and beef fajitas, so I use this homemade fajita seasoning recipe to keep a batch of fajita spice mix on hand to speed up the cooking process. I like to have a jar of fajita spice mix on hand because it saves time. I don’t have to add eachRead More

How to Make Chipotle Seasoning Mix

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You can easily make Chipotle Seasoning Mix using ingredients in your spice cupboard. You may need to pick up ground chipotle peppers, but the other ingredients are probably already in your pantry. I have been seeing Chipotle seasoned items everywhere. Maybe it is because I have had chipotle peppers on my brain, but at theRead 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.