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Premeditated Leftovers™

Prep-Ahead Meals, Cooking Tips, and Frugal Living


Iced Pumpkin Sugar Cookies

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Everyone loves these Iced Pumpkin Sugar Cookies since they taste wonderful and look so beautiful.  Iced cookies aren’t as hard to make as you think, and this recipe will help you to recreate a beautiful fancy look for a favorite cookie for the holidays.  Pumpkin cookies are great for Halloween, Thanksgiving, and throughout the fall months.Read More

Christmas Sugar Cookie Recipe

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I have tried a lot of Christmas Sugar Cookie Recipes over the years, attempting to find the perfect flavor and a dough that is easy to work with.  This recipe for sugar cookies is wonderful.  The cookies are crisp, but not hard and the flavor is wonderful!  The dough is easy to roll out and it holdsRead 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.