Serving Leftovers
My family hates leftovers and is one of the reasons I don’t cook as often since I can’t stand to throw out food. I can’t eat all the leftovers by myself and the same meal gets old the third time around in a week.
My husband doesn’t mind leftovers as long as they look different than from the first meal. I have learned that when I have leftover chicken to make chicken salad. When I have leftover roast beef that I need to make barbecue roast beef. My mother-in-law always took leftover mashed potatoes and would fry them in butter - making a potato cake for breakfast. So he will eat leftovers but they just need to be served differently.
Vegetables can be thrown together in a soup. Those are the best soups anyway that contain all the favorites of the family.
There are many dishes that can be made with leftovers. So when you are meal planning, consider which foods you may have plenty of after dinnertime. Then you can use it to make something to serve later.
So how do you serve leftovers? Do you have to dress them up or does your crew willingly eat whatever is put in front of them?
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