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Leftovers On Purpose -LOP- is about how I make meals ahead and store in my freezer :). It includes ideas for feeding daycare toddlers, as well as what I do to keep Weight Watcher's Point-friendly items available for myself. The same ideas would work for feeding a busy family.
Not really anything new, but something I haven't done in a long time.Since I don't have access to my kitchen during child care hours, I'm always looking for things I can make ahead and this came to mind today.I hard boiled six eggs.I then peeled them (read full article)
Not really anything new, but something I haven't done in a long time.Since I don't have access to my kitchen during child care hours, I'm always looking for things I can make ahead and this came to mind today.I hard boiled six eggs.I then peeled them (read full article)
mom2priceboys left a comment on my Spaghetti Eggs post saying that she does the same thing with rice. What a wonderful idea, I just had to give it a try.I heated a bit of butter in a skilled and added just over a cup of cooked rice. I put in three (read full article)
mom2priceboys left a comment on my Spaghetti Eggs post saying that she does the same thing with rice. What a wonderful idea, I just had to give it a try.I heated a bit of butter in a skilled and added just over a cup of cooked rice. I put in three (read full article)
I don't think I've made spaghetti sauce the same way twice, lol. I started adding tomato sauce or some sort of canned tomatoes to jarred spaghetti sauce to stretch it. Now, I like the stretched sauce better than straight out of the jar. Today I had (read full article)
I don't think I've made spaghetti sauce the same way twice, lol. I started adding tomato sauce or some sort of canned tomatoes to jarred spaghetti sauce to stretch it. Now, I like the stretched sauce better than straight out of the jar. Today I had (read full article)
Easy heat up.......This is the easiest way to heat up veggies for toddler lunches. I open a can of veggies, pour about half the water out of the can, and put in the mini crock pot. Sometimes I add a pat of butter and a sprinkle of seasoning salt, b (read full article)
Easy heat up.......This is the easiest way to heat up veggies for toddler lunches. I open a can of veggies, pour about half the water out of the can, and put in the mini crock pot. Sometimes I add a pat of butter and a sprinkle of seasoning salt, b (read full article)
This is my favorite thing to do with leftover spaghetti.I melted a pat of butter in a frying pan. Added a handful of cooked spaghetti, then added four eggs (I'm feeding 5 toddlers). I scrambled them up just like normal.Because I have no access to my (read full article)
This is my favorite thing to do with leftover spaghetti.I melted a pat of butter in a frying pan. Added a handful of cooked spaghetti, then added four eggs (I'm feeding 5 toddlers). I scrambled them up just like normal.Because I have no access to my (read full article)
The rice cooker is an easy way to boil liquid. I put in a can of vegetable broth and turned it on "Cook". When the broth was boiling I turned it down to "Keep Warm" and put in 2 cups of Couscous. I let it set for 5 minutes.Easy and fast! I really (read full article)
I'm always writing down a recipe here and a recipe there, sometimes printing a recipe I find interesting. When things get busy, I stack the recipes to file or try later. I was going through a pile of recipes, putting them in the proper place to fil (read full article)
This is a photo of my leftover food from Chili's. I knew I wanted to eat it for lunch, so about an hour before, I dumped the doggie bag into the mini crock pot. An hour later, everything was heated through and it came out pretty good. The fries wer (read full article)
How much is a serving size? Have you ever read the label and figured it out, or if you're like me, you just put some in a bowl or eat out of the bag and don't care much about a serving size.Well, lately, I've been on a quest to eat healthier and to (read full article)
Something that is NEVER seen in our house--a beer. Hubby got it to make beer-battered fish, which was quite good, then there was left-overs. I remembered a recipe I saw on the Food Network: Quick Fix Beer BreadIngredientsCooking spray2 1/4 cups all (read full article)
Have you ever bought a store brand or off brand of dishwasher soap, then realized it wasn't going to work? I'm sure the Sun-Sations brand of dishwasher soap (photo below) works for someone somewhere, but when I put it in my dishwasher the dishes cam (read full article)
Brown 'N Serve sausage is not usually something I buy, but there was a great sale on them, so I got a few. After getting it home, I had to try--would it work in my mini crock pot? I put them all in, first thing in the morning with a 'lid-full' of wa (read full article)
I do this often for the toddlers.....plop two or three frozen burritos in my mini crock pot first thing in the morning. By lunchtime, they are defrosted and warm. For the toddlers, I use my pizza cutter to cut them into 6 or 8 pieces each. It's a (read full article)
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