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If MTV’s Cribs ever visited our house I would have to dash over to block their cameras from filming the fridge. No meticulously organized shelves full of Vitamin Water and Heineken here. At any given moment, we’ve got half a dozen little Tupperware containers of last night’s roast chicken, steamed veggies for the baby, half a block of Gruyère, that hummus experiment – a random assortment of odds and ends just begging to be combined into a new meal. Like, say…panini?
In conjunction with the launch of the Windows Phone 7, the folks at Microsoft are coordinating with me and 57 other food and lifestyle bloggers (see the official rules for a list of all the participating bloggers) to give away their new smartphones to our readers and challenged us to write a post on the theme of “doing more with less”. I’ll share with you how I turned leftover cornbread and pulled pork into Pulled Pork Cornbread Panini with Caramelized Onions and Pepper Jack in a minute. First, here are the details on the giveaway.
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- Leave a comment on this post, sharing your favorite way to use up leftovers.
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We’ve talked before about repurposing leftovers into tasty panini. It’s one way I “do more with less” when it comes to cooking. You can see all of the different panini I’ve grilled from leftovers here. That actually reminds me that it’s almost time to give you my annual set of Leftover Thanksgiving Turkey panini recipes. It gets more and more challenging to come up with new ideas each year…what ever will I make? I digress.
If the above photo looks familiar it’s because I’m featuring this Cornbread on my other blog, Cooking On the Side, right now. I’d toyed with the idea of making cornbread panini in the past, but it wasn’t until I came across this post on Healthy Food for Living that I became convinced it would actually work. My version with pulled pork and caramelized onions (more leftovers!), along with pepper jack cheese, reminded me a bit of tamales. My initial concern was that the whole thing would crumble on the panini press, but they actually held together well. That said, when it came to actually eating them this was a knife-and-fork affair. 🙂
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Pulled Pork Cornbread Panini with Caramelized Onions and Pepper Jack
Since we’re using leftovers, this is more of a guideline than a real recipe. The bottom line is: cornbread makes tasty panini. Have fun experimenting with it!
INGREDIENTS:
- Cornbread (you can find a classic recipe on Cooking On the Side)
- Pepper jack cheese (2 slices for every piece of cornbread)
- Pulled pork (this Perfect Pulled Pork recipe on Kevin & Amanda’s Recipes is excellent)
- Caramelized onions (this slow cooker method is convenient; alternatively, I’ve included another method below)
DIRECTIONS:
Preheat the panini grill to medium-high heat.
Split your cornbread pieces in half lengthwise, creating a top and bottom. Lay a slice of cheese inside the bottom half (this will help keep some of the moisture from seeping into the bread). Top it with pulled pork, caramelized onions and a second slice of cheese. Close the sandwich with the top half of cornbread.
Grill for 3 to 4 minutes until the cheese is melted and the cornbread is toasted. Be careful not to apply too much pressure to the sandwich so it remains intact. Grab some knives and forks, serve immediately and enjoy!
Caramelized Onions
In a skillet over medium-high heat, add 4 tablespoons of olive oil and 4 thinly-sliced medium onions and stir vigorously to avoid scorching. Season with salt and pepper. Continue stirring until the onions have a deep brown color. Reduce the heat and continue to cook until the onions are soft, 30 to 45 minutes.
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While I have never something as cool as this Panini with leftovers, I’ve always loved mixing together random leftovers to make a lovely pasta.
Oh wow… your cornbread panini puts mine to shame ;). The pulled pork and caramelized onions sound amazing!
Mm, definitely some kind of panini or quesadilla!
What a great giveaway! I like to use meat leftovers in my vegetable soups that I make for weekday lunches.
I might have to make some pulled pork just to give this a try. I’ve got cornbread in the freezer. I usually turn leftover meats into something Mexican.
How about this? Leftover garlic toast, thick, rich Bolognese sauce, (include the leftover spaghetti if you like,) shavings of parmigiano-reggiano, all grilled on the panini press, but not pressed down too hard.
A little mixed green salad with lemon juice and good olive oil to accompany and you have a great leftovers panini!
I love using either leftover steak or chicken to make quesadillas. I have also made chicken panini’s, thanks to you!
With a teenage son in the house we don’t have many leftovers. On the rare occasion when we do, I will usually just reheat them for lunch or make them into a sandwich.
I took like to use leftover meat/poultry/shrimp for either quesadillas or enchiladas or soup.
I like to make a roast in the crockpot or oven and turn the leftovers into my version of beef and cheddar sandwiches with onion soup mix, melted American cheese and Western dressing.
Leftovers from meals are usually lunch the next day. Bits and pieces of meat and veggies usually go into fried rice.
I make soup or stir it all into omelettes.
I usually just re-heat for lunch the next day…boring. But I also like to use them in soups and sandwiches. This panini looks SO good. I can’t wait to make it. Mmm hungry.
Leftover from a wrap special where I work: Roasted eggplant (brushed with a little oil, s & p)
Layer your sandwich with eggplant, feta cheese, and a lemon garlic aioli. Grill all together. It’s a different flavor and it’s great!
well of course the leftover turkey at thanksgiving becomes turkey sandwiches, turkey soup, turkey pot pies, turkey congee. we even freeze the bones to make more turkey soup later.
I ususally just heat up leftovers and eat as is.
I like to use leftover meat for the next days breakfast. I either do frittatas or breakfast scrambles or baked potatoes with eggs inside!
I almost always double receipes. Many times tastes better as the flavor improves the second day and saves me from cooking every single day, but still being able to have home cooked meals for my family.
i live alone so i have to do all the cleanup by myself (boo!) so i make most my recipes into one-bowl/one-pot recipes 🙂
It may sound crazy, but whenever I have left over mashed potatoes, I make a delicious chocolate cake from a recipe that my mom used to make.
Leftovers are always great for lunches, but I often make new meals throughout the week using a few of the ingredients I prepared early. Who doesn’t love fajitas with leftover steak and chicken or twice baked potato cakes!
I like to turn leftover steak into french dips.
I had a leftover roasted chicken breast. I shredded it, sliced some brie, caramelized some onion and made a delicious panini sandwich on Focacia bread. Dijon mustard on the foccacia, a slice of brie, some onions, another slice of brie, top with the foccacia. Yumm, it was delicious.
What I do with leftovers depends on what they are. My favorite way to re-use them is to just serve whatever it is (chicken, beef, veggies, etc…) over brown rice. Love it!
Soups, for sure. Also fried rice-type concoctions that may take on an Asian character, or Mediterranean, or Southwest, or whatever, depending on what I have left over. I also freeze leftovers for a quick meal later.
My favorite way to do more with less is if I find some cake mix hidden away in the cupboard that hasn’t been used yet. Mix cake mix and sprite (yes, sprite) together and bake for a delicious, light, and airy cake. My favorite is strawberry, though yellow cake mix is also good!
I find soup is a great way to use leftovers.
I love to use any leftover roast chicken or turkey to make chicken/turkey salad combined with whatever I like in my pantry or fridge, like mango chutney, wasabi, greek/regular plain yogurt, mayo, apples, pears, grapes, dried fruit, carrots, celery, pickles, mustards, BBQ/hot sauce, salsas, etc. (but, of course not all of these ingredients all together!)
ahh that is funny, my fridge is the same way… so many leftovers so little desire to eat them. your site always makes me hungry, melted cheese gets me every time.
happy holidays,
Chef Louise
Being Asian we eat rice every single day so I always have leftover rice and make fried rice with it.
I am subscriber to your other blog COTS and just subscribe to this one. Love your panini ideas and using cornbread is great.
This sounds like a great panini.
As for leftovers: when I make something that involves noodles I cook extra for an easy meal later in the week.
It’s pretty easy to use up leftovers in my house….if there ARE any! Most dishes make a wonderful break from the typical PB&J, etc for my 6 kids at lunch time.
Hi, I like to make sandwiches also. Or, if I have rice and meat, then a fried rice is always easy and good. I would love the phone! Thanks, J.
I like grilled sandwiches made with leftover meats and what ever cheese is open. Sometimes I add carmalized onions or a nice ripe tomato. I don’t want Cribs in my house either, because they would not find anything to their liking in my frig either.
I have my leftovers for lunch the next day while they’re still pretty fresh.
That looks soooo yummy. I like using leftovers to make sandwiches, or if there is meat, some sort of stew or soup base. Thanks! 🙂
Lots of left overs go good in an egg scramble or as filling for a burrito. Really, the do!
I recently learned from my Chinese tutor how many things you can throw into ramen (or udon if you want it a little fancier) to make it better tasting and good for you: leftover cooked meat or fish of any kind, greens, mushrooms…yum!
Leftover grilled chicken -> BBQ chicken pizza. yum.
If I have leftover rice, I use that to make stuffed peppers a couple days letter.
For food thats heavily seasoned… we love to get creative with inventing new taco flavors! We always have some corn tortillas in the fridge ready to encase our new creations.
I like to use my leftovers to make random pizzas. Pretty much any combo tastes good when scattered over homemade crust (I keep a couple in the freezer at all times) and topped with gooey cheese!
Leftover veggies make a great addition to my Pizza Paninis! I love using my leftover sauce from spaghetti night with some mozzarella and any leftover veggies or meats to make great supreme pizza paninis.
I plan to have leftovers. I use them in soups and cassroles and for hash.
Leftovers at our house usually turn into lunch for someone.
Wow that looks amazing!!! I hardly ever have leftover actually, but when I do, they just become lunch.
I love the idea of using cornbread for this….I never would’ve thought of that.
I like to use leftovers for lunch, break up the sandwich cycle!
Your recipes never cease to amaze me… WOW! This is the type of recipe that cornbread was MADE for.
One of our favorites is fajita leftovers. We take all that extra chicken, peppers and onions and turn it into a cajun pasta by adding spices and sour cream. Sooo good.
I use up alot of leftovers in quesadillas and this panini looks great can’t wait to try it..
I like to also make leftover soups. leftover chicken, tomatoes in chicken tortilla soup.
with left overs depending on what it is i like to make fried rice mixtures or something with noodles. for example if i have a lot of veggies and meats left over from the previous nights i like to get some flat noodles and stir fry up a dish, easy and you get rid of the left overs. One thanksgiving we had so much left over especially mashed potatoes i made potato dunkers which consisted of mashed potato, turkey, and some of the left over green beans and corn. once i mixed the stuff together i rolled it in flour and some bread crumbs and deep fried it.
I like to make sandwiches out of leftover meat, especially breakfast sandwiches!
my favorite way to use up leftovers is to put them in my girls’ lunches the next day. they love it especially if it’s my cincinnati chili.
Last night’s French bread to this morning’s French toast. Classic, and perfect.
I turn leftover grilled salmon (if there’s any left!) into a salmon spread the next day.
we have leftover night. Seriously it’s on the menu. Basically whatever you find in the fridge goes (the kids have a slightly smaller selection). Nothing too creative, no need to call up Martha. we thought it was original but recently my daughter is into the Incredibles and they have leftover night. If it’s good enough for the Incredibles…
I will make a stew or soup with my left overs. Easy, throw them in a pot and add broth, serve with salad and a rolls.
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The great thing about most of the leftovers in my fridge is that they can be combined into a soup or a casserole. Talk about an easy dinner.
Wraps! I make homemade wrap bread and stuff the leftovers into my husband’s lunch!
I like taking leftover meats or veggies from the night before and making a big healthly salad with them!
Pretty much anything can go into chili. The other day, I made a chili to use up some carrots, onions, and zucchini that were on the verge of softness, plus a Bubba Burger that had been sitting lonely in the freezer for ages.
I usually throw leftovers into a soup or casserole.
My favorite way to use leftovers after a holiday is to take all of the savory items included with a turkey dinner and make a mashed potato casserole.
I almost always make sure I have enough for 4-6 additional servings for meals I make. Then I seperate them, freeze them. Easy lunch for my wife and myself easily.
i think my favorite left over would be braised pork.
i love using the left over braised pork to make sandwitches, just a nice soft slice of bread and slightly reheated pork yummmmm.
I love using leftovers in soups or casseroles. I particularly like using barbeque chicken in a delish chicken salad.
I love kaffir limes. I use them to clean my stove, deep clean my hair, in curries… amazing
It depends on the leftovers i guess, i cook a lot of chicken and veggies, if i have leftovers i like to make a kind of stir fry the next day
I love to make homemade corn tortillas for tacos, enchiladas, and tinga. If there’s any leftover, my husband cuts and bakes them up with nacho fixings for his “after the kids are in bed” snack. : )
Refrigerator stew. The kids hate it, but it gets rid of the leftovers!
I buy a rotisserie chicken on Monday and use it in increasingly-small bits as the week goes on. By Thursday, it goes into the pot to make soup or chicken stock.
If I have leftover sauerkraut after cooking with it, I call up my pal Saul, and we make ruben sandwiches. Great way to use leftovers with Sauerkraut Saul!
I just put all of my leftovers into a blender and chug them until I am satisfied. Mmmm leftover smoothie, so smooth 😉
Leftovers make for an easy to prepare lunch the next day.
I started bringing in left overs to give to my poor college student staff. Those kids eat like hell most of the time, so any time I can feed them some home cooking, I take the opportunity. Plus I find it easier to cook for 5+ people than to cook for 1-2.
Doing more with less sometimes means working on the go. Which is where my laptop and a good smartphone comes in handy. Go windows phone
I use my leftovers in sandwiches.
Sometimes I freeze them for later also, especially if I make a stew of soup.
I also use my leftovers in sandwiches, but as I am not a cold food lover, paninis fit the bill for me!
I think I need a sandwich press. Paninis are delicious and a great way to use leftover meat.
Our leftovers always somehow turn into Mexican. Example, leftover pulled pork last week was mixed with peppers and onions and became Carnitas. 🙂
my family really enjoys to use leftover porkchops in a green chili stew. and it saves time for mom too =)
I try to use left overs on a pizza! I have a bread machine that I make the dough with, and try to make up a pizza with the leftovers in the fridge…it can get pretty interesting sometimes!
I don’t usually prepare more food than needed for a given meal, but if so I usually wrap it and give it to one of the homeless that live nearby.
If I have leftover pasta and meat, I toss it in to a baking dish and do a pasta bake
We love using up leftovers! My favorite way is to use leftover steak ( that is a rare occurance) and make scrambled eggs with steak bites in the morning!
i love using wax paper for everything, lining dishes, easily move sifted flour, so useful
I always, always, always make leftovers to take for lunch the next day. My lunch is always the envy of the lunch room which mostly consists of microwaved frozen meals.
By using Quick Steps in Microsoft Outlook, I do more and do it quicker.
Turning stale bread into bread pudding. I consider it a culinary miracle.
I find that lots of leftovers make a good start for a soup.
I like to use leftovers to make soups, especially this time of year. Throw stuff together and let it all simmer on the woodstove all day.
When I make bacon, I lay it out in slightly-overlapping strips on a foil-covered cookie sheet and pop it in the oven while I cook the rest of the meal. It’s not quite the same as the pan-fried version, but there’s no way I would ever want to make regular bacon with all the oil pops and stove-wipedowns.
Talking of leftovers, I’ve started making 2 flank steaks instead of one when I grill. (I tend to grill over a covered surface for only flank steak to keep it more tender). It is just as easy to marinate 2 steaks as opposed to 1, and then its steak sandwiches, steak salads, etc over the next couple of days.
using leftover roasts or stews in sandwiches and pastas
I’ve been packing leftovers right into divided Lock-and-Lock containers for my daughter and I to use for work/school/traveling from Musical Theater rehearsal to ballet class. It is so nice to just reach into the refrigerator in the morning and grab a meal that is ready to go!
Tin foil is such a life saver! I use it to line my pans so when I’m baking, I don’t have to soak the pans over night to get them clean.
Whenever I get mail, I am typically very disappointed. It is usually junk mail, with the occasional “suspicious package.” What I usually do is keep a sort of “incinerator” out back to burn all of my junk mail. Great way to do less with more!
I always try to make a little extra than I think we’ll eat so there’s leftovers for lunch tomorrow! I think I need to overestimate a little more though, because my husband always eats more than I think he will, and there’s nothing left! 🙁 ha ha.
Every night that we have leftovers, we package them up into lunch-sized containers as we are cleaning up the kitchen, and they are ready to grab and go for lunches the next day….and the day after that sometimes. We also have a hungry pre-teen who needs some energy before practice, which is also before dinner, so these portioned leftovers are perfect for him to quickly re-heat before he runs out the door to practice.
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I pack leftovers for lunch and I freeze them for lunch a week or two later.
If would be fine to let the leftovers crumble up, top with cheese, broil a bit for melted browned cheesy goodness and serve it up as a hash/casserole. Not as pretty for presentation but you can’t have everything.
I make frittatas with whatever I can find in my fridge- cheese, veggies, meats, just toss it in and bake for a easy way to use leftovers!
I love using chicken broth to take shortcuts during the holidays and food. Its inexpensive and adds tons of flavor to any dish
Since money is a little tight these days, I always love having lunch in the park with a couple of friends rather than going to a movie and a restaurant afterwards. We’re basically getting to spend more time with each other more without all the money!
How to use leftover spaghetti and meatballs: they are always better the second night after you have let the sauce and pasta sit together thus, using leftovers!
Calendars are a huge help. And the Outlook Quickstep is a great shortcut tool that helps me quickly create some of my common tasks, appointments, and emails while on the go. The win phone 7 will be a great mobile tool to aid in this
I make extra potatoes whenever I make baked potatoes, they’re great as homefries or as an idaho sunrise the next day!
I got rushed/lazy and got a pre-cooked chicken this week. Now I’m being all thrifty and domestic by making chicken soup. Mmmmmm, homemade…
Freezing extras for later use, especially when you don’t feeling like cooking on another day.
Usually leftovers end up being my lunch. Being an at home mom it’s nice to have a little variety and not just sandwiches all week.
We use up leftovers by eating them for dinner the next night. I’m so lucky that my family is all okay with this. Less cooking, less cleaning and less money. Yay!
I always plan our dinner meals two weeks at a time. I also plan for there to be leftovers to take to lunch the next day.
I also sometimes feed (nutritionally appropriate) leftovers to my rat. Yes, really.
I make my husbands lunch everyday. What ever we have for dinner the night before is recycled into his lunch for the next day. Saves money by him not having to pay for another meal and the leftovers are sure to be used up, and do not go to waste. Kathy Jagger
My husband uses our George Foreman grill for everything–meat, sandwiches, you name it! He’s the king of doing more with less! We love our George Foreman. 🙂
I’ll be able to get more done with less by consolidating my devices when I get a Windows Phone.
I use Photoshop Elements instead of the full PS suite–and I still am able to do just what I need to do!
We recently made a pot pie out of extra steak we had. We tossed in frozen veggies and it was a cheap, but definitely filling meal!
I always make extra for my husband to take to work with him for lunch.
My favorite way to stretch my food budget is to use leftovers in omelets or rolled up in warmed tortillas. More for less!
Leftover vegetables get reincarnated into fried rice; I add chicken or shrimp or whatever else I have on hand and it’s an easy quick meal that cleans out the fridge at the same time!
Trading! If I made a meal that worked out extremely well, I sometimes swap the leftovers with a friend who had a similarly good experience.
I do more with less by spending my time wisely with family, friends, and loved ones.
i love trying new thing adding stuff to egg or a making sandwich
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I started using Mint.com, and it was shocking to see how much I was spending on workday lunches. I’ve been trying to pack my lunches more this year. I got this cute little box (http://www.amazon.com/Fit-Fresh-Lunch-Colors-Vary/dp/B000FNCS5M) which makes it fun and convenient to pack the night before and run out the door in the morning.
My husband loves putting leftover meat with cheese and toasting it into a quesadilla.
My husband and I and even our daughter who works full-time and goes to school at night have leftovers for lunch just about every day.
for some weird reason, when i cook, it has to be for an army, but i’m never actually cooking for an army, it’s usually 3-8 of us eating with pounds of leftovers. i like to freeze them or take them for lunch or give them to a fussy neighbor or a friend i haven’t seen in a while, i do believe it’s the thought that counts. i do like to take all kinds of leftovers for lunch that whole week as well, but it gets boring when you’re eating chili everyday of the week, so chili dogs, nachos, tacos, anything to mix it up, mexican bake, etc.
I usually end up making a pasta or a risotto dish with leftover meats and veggies. Last night, it was singapore macaroni with a few leftover chicken thighs and broccolini. I didn’t hear any complaints! 🙂
If I do happen to make more than we can eat, I just put the rest in the freezer so it doesn’t go bad! Then, easy dinner in a week or two when we’re not sick of the meal anymore. 🙂
I’m all about doing more with less by using free tools such as the Google calendar to organize my day, week, month, year…need I go on!!!
I freeze any leftovers for later in the week or the next week. Keeps the kids from eating the same thing day after day.
Any leftover meat (or tofu) forms the basis of a curry or stir fry the following day
I am loving aluminum foil as an insulation material these days, helps me shape cakes, and keep things warm 🙂
I freeze any excess leftovers to use on a day when I am rushed and have no time to cook.
I read the grocery store weekly ads during my lunch break. That helps me plan out my grocery trip and gives me meal ideas, so I waste less time trying to think “what’s for dinner.”
I put french toast in the waffle iron! SO much faster than the traditional way.
I do more by sleeping less. It is amazing what you can get done in the morning without distractions.
I do more with less by using awesome phone apps. There are many useful, fun, and creative apps out there that help make life a little bit easier to manage.
I try to clean the house during TV commercial breaks.
I get more done by using the Microsoft Outlook junk filters to see less spam.
Unless it was exposed to a lot of heavy dressing, leftover salad becomes a layer in a sandwich the next day – it’s more interesting than plain lettuce
Lots of dinner one night equals lunch the next day! Leftovers are super.
I do more with less by baking from scratch and cooking meals instead of grabbing fast food or eating out. It saves money, but it’s also healthier.
I get my screen more organized with less hassle using Windows 7’s Snaps feature.
I bring snacks with me everywhere, especially while travelling. This helps avoid the low-blood-sugar rush to a regrettable fast-food meal.
I used my extra cornbread for Cornbread and Sausage stuffing for my turkey. It’s going to be a tasty Turkey Day.
Doing more with less means keeping your cars as long as possible especially when they are paid off.
One example of me doing more with less is carpooling with friends to school (when I don’t take the train). Being college students, we’ll save all the money we can and it’s so convenient that I have a group of friends that all live pretty close! It’s fun to see each other in the mornings, ha and eat breakfast on the go. It’d be so awesome to win!
during the holidays i give coupons for watch your kids for 1 hour or clean your house. its cheap and easy and everyone is happy
Happy Thanksgiving! I am thankful for people who put their hearts and soles into blogging for us! I am thankful that the giveaway is a phone as I am in real need of a new one.
I’ve had leftover sushi from a business dinner a few times – I bring that in to work for the night cleaning staff.
Happy Thanksgiving! During the holidays, when I’m camped out on so many deal sites, I make sure to keep an eye out for kid’s books and toys. This helps stretch my giving-to-charity budget so I can donate more to Toys for Tots, school libraries, etc. Amazon has a Flat Stanley boxed set for $7.50 now!
This might be a little too simple, but I do more with less by always having my laptop with me. Nowadays, since I’m in college, it seems like everything is being moved online, from turning essays in to math homework. It definitely helps me do more when I have free time and I have less stuff to carry around!
Last week I had a leftover hard boiled egg from breakfast, and it became part of a tossed salad for dinner.
Having just had the traditional Thanksgiving turkey dinner, I’m looking forward to re-arranging the main ingredients into a panini – turkey, stuffing and whole cranberry sauce – my favorite holiday meal becomes my day after Thanksgiving lunch (and many other lunches as well).
Doing more for less is all about doing dishes before, during, and after thanksgiving dinner. Saves a lot of time the next day.
P.S. happy thanksgiving
I like making more than I need to so I can have lunch to take the next day.
I love using up leftovers by either freezing them to eat as the same meal later or using them up in soups! Theres only 2 of us so I try to plan out what I’ll do with leftovers before I even cook.
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best / easiest way to use up leftovers is soup! anything goes!
doing more with less could mean budgeting and adhering to it. It allows us to save properly and spend wisely
Not this again! If you ask me, leftovers are ill-defined. I prefer to deny their existence because it implies poor planning on my part.
I love trying to incorporate the leftovers into other meals. Like oatmeal for cookies of some sort (which I do not do often).
Whenever we have leftover chicken, especially from broiled or fried chicken, we always turn them into quesadillas and enchiladas. Haha, they are delicious and really easy to do! I hope I win this phone!
My family is from Mexico and it’s almost like a tradition to have left overs for the next day [like a MUST! lol] and we do it for holidays! It’s a saying among Mexicans that left overs (el recalentado) taste better than when it was originally cooked.
freeze even little bits for another day when you have a mood for something different!
Right now I’m making sandwiches. But we also made stock out of our turkey as soon as we had cut it. Not only did we have soup the following day, but the house smelled amazing the entire day!
Almost anything can be added to an omelette. Any leftover meat, most vegetables, any cheese… to the omelette with you!
m and ms are probably my favorite more with less candy. i use them to decorate cakes, i use them in counting games with kids, and they just taste good 🙂
I like to put almost any type of leftovers into a sandwich
One example of me doing more with less is simply turning off and unplugging electronics and appliances. Sometimes people forget and it adds up to the costs. As time goes by, spending a few little seconds on turning appliances off can really make a difference and save more money, more money to spend on stuff I want! I only turn things on when I need to! Phone looks so awesome!
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Doing more with less sometimes means reusing grocery bags, or buying the recyclable types and using those. Saves the environment and saves the grocery stores money, which in turn saves you money.
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Also, that pulled pork looks yummy!
I like to make more meals out of leftovers, because why waste?
I recently chopped off 8 inches of hair, all the way up to my jawline. It’s SO much quicker and easier to do my hair now, which leaves more time and patience for all the other million things every morning. Plus, it means I can’t just toss my hair up in a ponytail every single day.
little sampler platters with small bites of lots of different things!
One way we do more with less is with leftovers. Especially during Thanksgiving time. An example would be using ham for lunch sandwiches and using the leftover turkey for quesadillas or my favorite turkey and tortilla soup!
This phone would help keep me organized so that I can do more with less!
I like to use any type of meat leftovers on pizzas
Our family comes from Mexico so, we cannot live without tortillas when we’re eating! That being said, it’s not surprise when there’s tortilla leftovers. If I have enough, I put them under oil to boil so they become crispy and use them as nachos! 😀
I really like spices and herbs. If you buy them in the ethnic food section, especially the hispanic themed aisle they can be only 99 cents a bag! They add flavor to everything including cheap cuts of meat and inexpensive dishes
I’ve had a revelation: my rat won’t eat everything (really): I have learned to discard *certain* things.
We will sometimes use leftover meat to make flautas or taquitos. It’s great especially if you don’t have a lot left. That or enchiladas.
i love to try something different like make it with rice or adding it to the next night meal.
Leftovers? My wife has made some of the tastiest soups with leftovers. Sometimes combinations arise that you never would have thought of but are quite good! That’s one fun way to do more with less!
Doing more with less: I’m on a pantry clean-out kick. No grocery store for me until all those aging boxes of couscous and off-brand pinto beans are cooked and eaten! More pantry space and more room in the grocery budget.
This looks yummy, I really try not to waste food. I love to use my leftover turkey to make soup.
mmmmm, just had some lovely meals with thanksgiving leftovers. firs the thanksgiving blue plate special sandwich, piled with turkey, cranberry, gravy, dressing and mashed potatoes. then the sweet potato-turkey hash. i only wish i had more leftovers!
I’m not super inventive when it comes to using up leftovers but one idea that I’ve liked is making a turkey potpie from Thanksgiving leftovers. It turned out great!
Toss extras on a pizza! You can put extra meats, cheese, or vegetables. Anything goes!
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I like to add rice and cheese to most leftovers- it’s hard to go wrong with that
I keep a ziploc bag in the freezer to put left over onion , celery, other vegetables that I am chopping. I know it is not a huge amount but I hate to waste ti.
My favorite way to use up leftovers are for sandwiches! Whenever there’s any leftover meat (it has to be dry though ahah) we like to put them on sandwiches for lunch the next day!
This is my last shot for the giveaway so here I go! It’s a bit embarrassing but when anyone of my siblings has leftovers, I’m usually the one who eats them all lol We really try not to leave any leftover at all!
On the rare occasions that I have left over mashed potatoes, I make mashed potato soup. It’s simple and quite delicious.
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I like to use the meatballs from spaghetti dinner to make meatball subs or use the sauce to make another red-sauce-based dish (like authentic pasta e fagioli.)
Doing more with less could be decorating the christmas tree as a family. More work done in less time, and lots of family time together.
We like to make quesadillas. I’ve got to try a panini instead next time.
my chinese family loves using turkey leftovers to make congee, chinese-american fusion at its best 🙂
I do more with my glad-ware and save the baggies! Reusable sandwich containers are GREAT.
I use leftovers for lunch all the time. It’s such a relief to not have to think about what to make for lunch!
I freeze lefts over for an rush day.. when it no time to cook and add whats leftover in freezer mix and match what a great dinner in a quick time.
I love to use my leftover cranberry-raspberry sauce and add mayo. Then I put it on my turkey sandwich. Since I make a firmer dressing, I slice it off and put it on my sandwich. I love Paninis so I press my sandwich. This is a great way for me to have turkey and dressing.
I also have my own food truck in New Mexico. I serve this sandwich all year long.