Plan Your Vegan Leftovers
Written by LaTara Ham-Ying on December 24, 2007 at December 24th, 2007
Leftovers don’t have to be boring and they don?t have to be thrown out. Planned leftovers
can be helpful in quick meals. After all, part of meal preparation is already complete!
Here are a few tips for using leftovers:
- Use leftovers in a totally different way from the original meal and vary the way you use them. For example, don’t always use leftover vegan taco meat in tacos. Try it in chili, spaghetti, or make sloppy joes with it.
- Locate new recipes that use foods you often have left over. Some foods are more versatile than others, but whatever the food, put it to good use and use it all before it spoils.
- Use your left overs to make efficient use of family size vegetable packages and other large items. Take those veggies and make a casserole, shepherd?s pie, or a vegetable stew. Freeze the portion you won’t use within a day or two.
- My husband loves to make about 3 pounds of beans in the pressure cooker. The only problem is that I am stuck figuring out what to do with them. This drives me up a wall! So when I know he is going to do this I plan my meals around this huge pot of beans. Bean burritos, bean dip/salsa, bean salad, bean soup…can you think of any more ideas? Now of course some get frozen and that is a part of my plan
Eating leftovers does not have to be boring. Just change up the ingredients a bit and there is not telling what you will get.
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May 13th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
i would like to know how can i start to feed my family of 13 a vegan diet. im a mother of 12 children and have found that eating animal products and drinking milk is not benefical for our health. i would like a sample menu as to what i can cooka nd prepare to start my family on a vegan lifestyle. thanks.