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Premeditated Leftovers™

Prep-Ahead Meals, Cooking Tips, and Frugal Living


Homemade Seasoned Taco Meat

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Making homemade seasoned taco meat is easy. Even better, this taco meat recipe is a hit with my family! You will probably find all the spices you need to make the taco meat seasoning in your spice cupboard. Taco Tuesday is a very real thing in our house. However, my family is perfectly willing to eatRead More

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

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.