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Premeditated Leftovers™

Prep-Ahead Meals, Cooking Tips, and Frugal Living


Leftover Taco Meat Recipes

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These leftover taco meat recipes will turn your leftovers into flavorful new meals the whole family will love. If you have ever had leftover taco meat from Taco Tuesday, you know how frustrating it can be. You don’t want to throw it out because meat is getting more and more expensive these days and it’s too wastefulRead More

How to Store and Use Up Leftovers

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Here are tips on how to store leftovers and ways to encourage your family to eat up leftovers. Creating a homemade meal is a great way to save money while providing healthy food for your family. The one thing that comes with every home-cooked dinner that must be dealt with is leftovers. How you decide to dealRead 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.