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April 16, 2009
Make a multi-purpose meal
Challenge Yourself for: 24 Hours
Leftovers get a bad rap: Not only do they increase your kitchen efficiency, they also give you a tasty meal the next day. Today, make extras for dinner tonight with the goal of repurposing the leftovers for breakfast or lunch tomorrow. Bonus points for changing it up: Grilled chicken becomes sliced chicken on a bed of tossed greens; baked veggies get chopped up and added to an omelet. The options are limitless!
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Being single I eat A LOT of leftovers, which suits me fine! Many dishes I prepare taste even better the second or third day. I enjoy having healthy meals readily available when I drag in from work or the gym tired and hungry. The cost savings is an added benefit.
i don’t know what i would eat if i threw away my leftovers. i still have leftover ham from Easter that i’m going to put in my freezer
I didn’t make a multi-purpose meal today but I did make a multi-purpose side dish. We discovered a new salad this week at a tea room we tried. The salad has cashews, sunflower seeds field greens, and cut up red grapes with raspberry dressing. I didn’t have grapes on hand so I substituted orange segments and it still tasted great and we have lots of salad we like for part of our veggies for meals for a few days now! :)
I always use the leftovers from dinner for lunch the next day. I have a menu for the week and plan what meals to make first based on what leftovers we can use from them for meals that I make later in the week.
Leftovers are great to take in your lunch the next day. I always cook just a touch extra. And when going to the grocery store, plan your menu first, with their healthy sale items. Works great for me! Cost effective too for people that spend a little extra to eat healthy.
I live at least a two hour’s drive from any grocery store. Menus are always based on how long the fresh fruits and vegetables will last and when they need to be incorporated into other dishes. Meals become very interesting the closer I get to a shopping trip!
Soups, stews, and chill definitley make great leftovers. If I don’t want to eat it in it’s soup form, I will throw it in just about anything. Not too long ago, I made a hearty vegetable soup using every vegetable available at the time in my fridge. The next day I wanted a hamburger, so I took the solids (veggies) out of the soup, mixed them with 97% lean ground beef, cooked the burgers and used the broth for a dressing. It actually was pretty tasty, although avoid too many carrots in the burger. They will dominate the subtle accent flavors of the mild flavored veggies.
We do alot od muti-purpose foods.I make extra meat loaf then the following day I make spaghetti and use the left over meat loaf in it.
Since our sons are grown and out of the house, I find myself with more leftovers. If I bake chicken, I’ll still make four or five and use the leftovers the next day for stir fry. It also makes the meal planning a lot easier, since one meal can cover two or even three days without a lot of extra work!