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Plan your Leftovers
By Monica Resinger
Using leftovers not only saves money by using up foods that you have on hand,
therefore decreasing shopping trips, but it can also save time. The most
obvious way you can save time using leftovers is that the dish is already
cooked
and all you have to do is warm it up the next evening for a meal. This,
however, can get boring. Another, more exciting way to use leftovers is to
plan your
leftovers.
To plan your leftovers means to plan on cooking more of something in your
current meal to use for an upcoming planned meal. For example, if you are
having
roast beef, mashed potatoes and gravy, and roasted vegetables for dinner
tonight, you could plan on cooking double the amount of roast beef that your
family
normally eats so you can use the extra in tomorrow night’s dinner which is
planned to be open faced, hot roast beef sandwiches and green salad. You could
even go the extra length and make double the amount of mashed potatoes and
roasted vegetables to make potato pancakes and pasta salad with sliced roasted
vegetables to go with the open faced hot roast beef sandwiches. You would have
most of your upcoming meal already prepared for you.
Of course, this takes a little time to plan, but cooking this way will save
you a lot more time than what it took to plan it and as a bonus, you‘ll be
saving oodles of money! Planning will ensure that you have the right
ingredients
on hand for your planned meals.
To plan your leftovers, you just need to think about the way you use your
leftovers. You could sit down with a notebook and pen and write down all the
ways
in which you use leftovers and ad to it when you find new ideas. Make a few
pages for each different type of leftover such as 'chicken', 'beef',
'potatoes', 'bread', 'vegetables', 'pasta', etc. If you'd like to skip this
part or
need more ideas for what to do with your leftovers, check out the e-book ‘The
Leftover Recipe E-book’ here: http://homemakersjournal.com/leftovers.htm
Once you have written down all the ways you use leftovers, you can then plan
your meals for the week in either your notebook (this is a great idea because
you can use it over and over again) or on a calendar. Say you want to have
chili and cornbread this week. Plan on making a double batch of chili to use
the
next night for chili dogs (or maybe even a triple batch so family members can
use some for lunches). Once you have your menu planned, then you’ll need to
make a shopping list to ensure you have all ingredients needed.
Have fun with it and save lots of time and money!
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