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Premeditated Leftovers™

Prep-Ahead Meals, Cooking Tips, and Frugal Living


White Chocolate Chip Cookies with Coconut and Sunflower Seeds

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White Chocolate Chip Cookies with Coconut and Sunflower Seeds I love cookies. Who doesn’t?  Lately, I have been fixated with cookie creations. Maybe it was the recent round of holidays that got my creative cookie juices flowing like a major crack in the Hoover Dam. Yes, it started with those Postcard Gingerbread Cookies and the Mini Chocolate ChipRead More

How to Harvest and Roast Sunflower Seeds

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The early fall months are the time of year where sunflowers peek above everything else growing in your garden. Their tall and gracious stems send them straight to the sky, putting on a brief and colorful show before the weight of their seeds begin to pull them back down. If you have a sunflower orRead 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.