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Premeditated Leftovers™

Prep-Ahead Meals, Cooking Tips, and Frugal Living


Shrimp Salad Recipe with Wild Rice and Greens

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With football season just around the corner, here’s a mouth-watering appetizer to serve at your game day party. Planning a baby shower? This appetizer is not only fancy, but easy to make. Try this Wild Rice and Shrimp Salad with Greens at your next shin-dig! Not too often does shrimp appear in our fall food line-up, butRead More

10 Delicious Salad Recipes

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These delicious salad recipes are perfect for easy weeknight dinners or for meal prepping lunches. I am not sure what the weather is like where you live, but we have been having record high temperatures. It is so hot I don’t want to eat, let alone turn on the oven and cook. I just wantRead 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.