Don't hesitate to serve the same foods two days in a row. If it's a nutritious meal on Monday, it will be the same nutritious meal on Tuesday or Wednesday, and could even taste better. If your family complains, then here is my motto "Take it or Leave it"!
Seriously, you can almost disguise any leftover. When you look into your refrigerator, don't think of the food as leftovers; think of it as the beginning of your next meal - you can build around it and consider it as a head start.
Leftovers Gone Wild
One of the ways to disguise leftovers is to add some fresh ingredients or spices. The leftover stew that's enough for only two might become a hearty soup, enough for four, if fresh tomatoes, mixed vegetables, and noodles or rice is added. Some casseroles, stews, and pot roasts actually taste better the next day, after their flavors have blended. Chili is a prime example, it is always better the next day.
Create your own frozen dinner. Create meal portions of what you have cooked and stored in small freezer bags. Place all of the components in a larger freezer bag. Inside the bag, write on a sticky note or note card what is in the meal. This will allow you for quick home cooked meals when schedules will not allow it. As always you can recycle the large freezer bags for the next round of meals.
You can make anything with leftover vegetables. A combination of vegetables and macaroni, and the last slice of meat, can be put in a pan with a can of soup or broth. This can be a total switch up with what served last night.
Consider having a "lunch swap" at work. Why not get your co-workers involved and bring containers of your leftovers. This way you and your co-workers could have an old fashioned pot-luck lunch.
Happy Cooking!
No comments:
Post a Comment