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Premeditated Leftovers™

Prep-Ahead Meals, Cooking Tips, and Frugal Living


Easy Ways to Meal Prep Lunches

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Use these easy ways to meal prep lunches to make your lunches for the week on Sunday evening. Making a week’s worth of lunches save you time on busy mornings and reduce your temptation to pick up fast food. Turkey Taco Bowls from Prep-Ahead Breakfasts and Lunches There are a lot of resources out thereRead More

Meal Prep Tips to Help You Start Meal Prepping

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Use these meal prep tips to learn how to start meal prepping. It includes tips for fitting prep-ahead meals into your busy schedule. What is Meal Prep While many associate meal prep with a counter of pre-made salads and broiled chicken breasts, meal prep is more than just that. Meal Prepping is simply making some,Read More

Beginner’s Guide to Meal Prep

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Meal prepping saves you time and money on cooking meals each week. It can make your life much easier! To get started, check out the tips and tricks in this Beginner’s Guide to Meal Prep. Meal Prepping is popping up all over! From magazines to books and blogs, meal prepping is really blowing up. IfRead More

10 Make-Ahead Lunch Recipes

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Try these 10 make-ahead lunch recipes to make your week less stressful and eat home cooked meals on the go! Between balancing work and school, it is hard to find time to cook homemade meals. It is even harder to eat healthy lunches every day. Packing a lunch each morning is just not realistic for meRead 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.