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Budget Stretching - Using Leftovers
Here's a hotch-potch of ways we use leftovers in our home. One of my aims is to throw nothing away. I am not quite there yet - but making progress!!
Many meals such as pasta or quiche become lunches for my husband or oldest son, sometimes I try to deliberately make heaps so we can freeze a few meals for them to reheat at work.
Bread - use as french toast, as 'mousetraps', or leave in just-turned-off oven overnight to dry out and make breadcrumbs in food processor.
Rice/Potato - use as lunch next day, fry onions in butter, add rice or potato and whatever else is around, heat through until browned.
- rice is great for breakfast the next day, heated through with milk or cream and dried fruit.
Casseroles - in squares of flaky pastry as 'turnovers'
- mix with baked beans, chilli beans or lentils and tomatoes and reheat, serve on toast or rice
- yummy in toasted sandwiches
Meat - chop sausages and add to baked beans
- chop bacon into small pieces and freeze for use in muffins, savouries etc
- chicken - add to risotto or fried rice, mix with leftover stuffing and gravy and use as turnover filling
- make butter chicken - stirfry veges, remove from pan, add 2 tins indian tomatoes and reduce down, return veges and chicken to pan, add cream and big knob of butter, serve on rice
- layer meat with potatoes, fried onions and cheese in flat dish, pour over cream and extra cheese, bake in slow oven for 1 1/2 hours
Gravies - freeze and use in soups
Veges - heat and mix couple of eggs through for 'scramble'.
Save every scrap of food, I usually put them in plastic container until frozen, then turn out into big zip lock bag that just sits in the freezer. If this bag starts to overflow, remove contents and heat together. If thick serve on toast, rice or mashed potatoes, if thin serve as soup. This will be a unique - never to be repeated - FREE meal.
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Posted: 8:10 PM, Mar. 12, 2009 |
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