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spin off - disguise leftovers and change them into different meal

17 years ago

Trying to plan meals better and looking for helpful ideas on disguising leftovers.

We have some dietary restrictions: We don't eat pork, I'm deathly allergic to shellfish, we don't mix dairy and meat. Not all meals need to meet dh's requirements which are gluten free; dairy free; tomato, pepper and potato free; soy and derivative free; no refined sugars.

So give me your suggestions:

eg roast chicken => taco soup and chicken salad

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rachelellen
17 years ago
Gosh, it would be easier if you were to post a few of your regular meals that result in leftovers. My husband calls me the leftover queen because I rarely want to eat leftovers as they are, but must make them into something new.

As for leftover roast chicken...chicken crepes, chicken soup, chicken melt sandwiches, enchiladas, chicken pot pies...
ruthanna_gw
17 years ago
If you Google "leftover recipes", you'll find entire websites devoted to the topic and can search for ones your family would like.
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hawk307
17 years ago
Love2:
There are a lot of leftovers that you don't have to consider to be leftovers.
They don't have to be disguised. !!!

For instance if you had some Steak or part of a Roast to use.
I brown the meat for stew anyway. So maybe you can look at it in a diffent light.
As meat prepared for 2 meals. ( one later )

Like you planned it this way, to save time.

How's that sound ? They are not really leftovers.

Omelets or Chicken Salads ? Think the same way.

They are not leftovers.
Like " Used Cars " they are now " Pre owned "

Think of a good name for Leftovers like PreCooked.

Maybe you'll get some good names
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shaun
17 years ago
I saw a sign on a used car recently that said, "Recently Loved" cute huh?
shaun
17 years ago
Ack, not "recently", it said, Previously Loved. Gosh..! hahaha
pkramer60
17 years ago
Forget the word "leftover" and call it pre-planned.

I am not much help, as I have big bowl fo yellow rice left from the other night.

Previously Loved- I like that better!
annie1992
17 years ago
I had a lawyer in the office who used to call leftovers "Used Food", but I don't think that's probably going to be helpful, LOL.

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Terri_PacNW
17 years ago
Well not mixing dairy and meat would be impossible here. LOL

I'm making white chicken chili with leftover chicken today.
I like Chicken salad on crackers more than bread.

One of our favorite "leftover" chicken uses is. Rice, broccoli chicken casserole. I use a white sauce, that I add cheese to. (I bet you could use rice milk, and no cheese.)
Leftover rice, fresh or frozen broccoli, cooked chicken chunks, shreds, or bits, and pour the white/cheese sauce over it. Bake at 350 covered for about 45-60 minutes. Until hot and bubbly in the middle..
Terri_PacNW
17 years ago
Cheesy Uncheese Sauce

Here is a link that might be useful: cheesy uncheese
jimster
17 years ago
fish => fish salad sandwiches (use tuna salad recipe)

fish => fish cakes (use salmon patty recipe)

rare steak => steak salad (green salad topped with sliced cold steak)

beef => hash (Mmmmm)

rice => fried rice (plan for a large amount of leftover)

almost anything => pizza topping

Jim
loves2cook4six
Original Author
17 years ago
Thanks everyone. I didn't mean to post and run but heck, life got busy, what can I say. Thanks for all the suggestions, ideas and even the funny bits. Love them all.

I am going to try planning some of the meals for next week and will be including these suggestions.

I'll let you all know how it turns out.

THANKS
mitchdesj
17 years ago
shaun, lol, recently loved, too much info perhaps .
velodoug
17 years ago
I grilled a couple of strip steaks on Sunday. DW and I had the larger one with baked potatoes and steamed green beans for dinner. I sliced the second one very thin and did a quick stir fry with snow peas and mushrooms for dinner on Monday. I served it with brown rice.

That's pretty typical of what we do in the warm weather - grill something nice for Sunday dinner and make another meal or two from the leftovers. Another favorite is to grill a whole chicken and use the leftovers for chicken pot pie, chicken salad, green chili, tacos, etc.

--Doug

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