revolving door dinners... take 2- don't ever go hungry!

A few months back I wrote about not throwing away any food. ANY. Throwing away food is throwing away money. Could you imagind dollars and cents going into the garbage? Yikes.  It is the same thing. Anyhow I wrote before about "revolving" door dinners. That's what I call the way we cook and eat dinner inn our house,. Everything that isn't ate will show up again in some way  throughout the week. For example Here is this weeks meals in our home ( as you can see I am looking ahead to the weekend)

wednesday: steaks in mushroom gravy, rice and mixed-veggies in garlic sauce. ( steaks are usually out of our price range but they had a big sale)
Thursday: "rice hash" - which was the last steak shredded and mixed with diced onions and the leftover rice and fried with a bit of margarine in it. Near the end I added a can of corn to this. I heated up the leftover mushroom  gravy and poured this over the top of the rice hash. Also we had collard greens. Collard greens that were brown in bits so they were giving them away for free and no one would take them! We did and just cut off the brown bits. We also got 10 ripe bananas that became two loaves of banana bread and two banana custard pies. We had one pie for dessert that night.
Friday: canned beef sauteed with half a chopped onion and sprinkled with worchestshire which became the filling for hot beef sandwiches. Mashed potatoes with this and of course beef gravy over top and fresh snap beans with seasoning, other banana pie for dessert.

( looking ahead now...)
Saturday: spam burgers with some day old buns we have, tater tots and salad
Sunday: leftover turkey from earlier in the week becomes the meat for potpie, we will use new veggies as well as leftovers from throughout the week in these two potpies. We made extra pie dough and refrigerated it- this will be the lower crust and instead of a traditional upper crust we will use stuffing on top. This will make for some extra substance and a little crunch. I have been saving bread heels and I think I have enough to make some chocolate bread pudding. :)

for monday: if we have leftover tater-tots we will have tater tot casserole and use up the rest of the salad from before. ( i will be sure to make extra for this purpose.)

- What else do we do? we eat oatmeal. Any leftovers go into the bread machine and become oatmeal bread, which cuts down on the price of the bread( have you seen the price of flour lately!)

Or the leftover oatmeal can go on top of fruit and baked for a dessert or put into meatloaf or cookies or meatballs or made into oatmeal pancakes. This is so much more economical than eating dry cereal. And better for you too..

Please message me if you have any good leftover ideas as well. Me and my family  say THANK YOU!!!

Here are some good sites when you are out of ideas as well:

1. recipe goldmine leftovers- lots of good ideas

2.beans r us- read this article. at the bottom there is a pinto bean pie!

join this group:

The Tightwad Times- It is a spin-off of the tightwad gazette.

When in doubt you can always add the leftovers to broth and cook up some soup or chop up the meat with some pickles and mayo and have some "salad sandwiches".  There is a place for everything! Be creative. - Mrs. B

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08:47, Saturday, May 3, 2008 .. Posted by gabbie427

These are some great ideas. We try to do the same thing here in this house. Now if I could just get hubby warmed up to the idea of eating such leftover redo meals.

God's Blessings,
Amy Jo