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Premeditated Leftovers™

Prep-Ahead Meals, Cooking Tips, and Frugal Living


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

10 Make-Ahead Breakfast Recipes

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Making a few of these make-ahead breakfast recipes will give you a week’s worth of homemade breakfasts and free up more time for other things. Everyone says breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but it is also the hardest to find time for. Most of us are just trying to get where we needRead More

Sheet Pan Scrambled Eggs

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This Sheet Pan Scrambled Eggs recipe was created as part of a sponsored post for Collective Bias and Horizon. The recipe and all opinions are mine alone.  Please tell me I am not the only one who is not ready for the lazy days of summer to end! I have enjoyed leisurely mornings with myRead 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.