I am going to use some of the ham to make a breakfast casserole and some corn chowder. Not sure about the mashed potatoes. Maybe Shepherd's Pie? I have a great vegetarian recipe for that.

Trish

Heck yeah! One of the joys of cooking is to see how I can morph leftovers into another meal without feeling like we're eating "leftovers"

I hear ya, Angelaid. I almost always plan one or two meals from a big dinner.
I made Aug. potatoes for dinner, Sunday, then cut up some ham into them and added left over broccoli to make a sort of scalloped potato & ham hot dish on Monday. Today for lunch we will have grilled ham-cheese and tomato sandwiches. I'll cut the rest of the meat off the ham bone and freeze it, along with the ham bone for soup another time. Dottie

I made rice pudding earlier, had rice left over, so last night had fried rice with a chicken fritter, and mixed vegetables. I also like to make potato patties out of left-over mashed ones. My Easter eggs will be salad, or creamed eggs on toast. Any ham left over is always tossed into the food processor and made into sandwich fixings, with the bone definitely headed for soup.

Everyday! The pork roast became green chili, then smothered nachos and huevos rancheros. :0) Yum!

That's such a good way to economize, stretch the food we pay for.

My store had a cooked turkey breast for $5. We ate turkey one evening, and yesterday I recycled the bones and leftover meat into turkey soup.

I use planned leftovers all the time.

If we have a roast, for example, the next night we might have quick BBQ beef sandwiches (sauted onions, diced roast beef, bottled BBQ sauce) the night after that, we may have Baked Potatoes stuffed with BBQ and topped with cheese.

Cream dried beef on toast? Second time around it appears as scalloped potatoes or a macaroni casserole.

Stew can rerun as Shepherd's pie

The vegetables leftover from a vegetable and dip platter turn into a stirfry the night after we have a party. Leftover dip is a good topping for baked potatoes.

It's become something of a challenge to me, to see how varied I can make the meals I make with leftovers. It's fun to come up with new ways to use them.

Nope! All the ham has been eaten on sandwiches and the leftover mashed potatoes will probably be heated up and eaten with whatever we have for dinner tonight.I just cleaned out the fridge so it's nice and clean for another week.

I morph my leftovers into something new and hopefully creative all the time. I really hate the thought of throwing food away, and will try to use every last bit rather than waste it.

I always make planned-overs, and they are usually different from the first meal.

Easter's left-over roast lamb was eaten the second night just as the first, because it really was just that darned good, LOL.

But now the rest is divided up into freezer dishes - one for lamb curry with couscous and vegetables, one for shepherd's pie, and one small one for pita sandwiches. That one is for tomorrow's lunch. It will probably be 2 or 3 weeks before we have the other lamb dishes.

I think it's silly to heat up the oven for any kind of a meal without making enough for more than one. It just requires a bit of creativity and planning.

I absolutely hate when I hear someone saying "Oh, we NEVER eat leftovers!" More stupid they!

I do it all the time. We live in the country and keeping fresh fruit and veggies is a challenge. So if we have hamburgers one night I will cut up the left over lettuce, tomatoes, onions and if we have avacados I cut them up too and use them on tacos. I find I am trying to spread things like that so we don't waste fresh goodies. Plus it's just the two of of so usually we have left overs once and then I make something else out of that.