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Leftover Magic for Families

As for large, busy families, yes, you can certainly freeze the leftovers to have another time, but with a little bit of advanced planning, you can come up with a couple of days of menus in minutes.

Let’s look at what is happening in your house now. You prepare a roasted pork loin and rice for dinner one night. The family wants something else for dinner the following night, so the forlorn and soon forgotten pork loin gets pushed to the back of the refrigerator.

Normally, that’s where it will stay until you clean out the fridge, right? But not anymore. That is a total waste of time, money, and energy. With a bit of forward planning when you shop, and some creativity, you can spin your leftovers into something everyone will want to eat, not throw away.

Eating leftovers the way they were originally served is probably what’s turning family members off from wanting it again the next night. Therefore, don’t expect them to want it again exactly the same way.

Instead, chop that pork loin up into bite sized cubes, and take your leftover rice as well if you have any. In a large skillet or wok, stir fry the leftover rice with a bag of frozen veggies, an egg, and some of the chopped pork loin to make pork fried rice. Add a little soy sauce and you’ve got a whole new dinner for your hungry family.

This is just one way that leftovers can be turned into a new dish with a new flavor. The same can also be done using chicken, seafood, or beef. Stirfry is a great way to use a wide variety of ingredients as well, and best of all, you don’t just have to use rice. You could make the same dish with left-over plain boiled spaghetti, making a great lo mein noodle dish.

Let’s take a look at beef next.

If you have hamburgers leftover from dinner one night, crumble or chop them up until they resemble ground beef again. The meat can be combined with chili powder and taco sauce to make beef tacos.

Or, you could add some kidney beans, chopped peppers and tomatoes, and sauce to create a pot of chili. If you have the imagination, there are an unlimited number of possibilities of what you can do with meats and side dishes from a previous night’s dinner.

Using a little leftover magic can make one meal last for two, three, or even four more days. But, you don’t have to eat it all in the same week. Fix a new meal with the leftovers and freeze it until you are ready to have that particular meat again. On that day, dinner will already be made and all you’ll need to do is heat it up. You will have a great meal in minutes for you and the whole family.

Your family will be amazed at your ability to transform any meal into a new creation they will enjoy. Besides that, you will save money on your grocery bill. Your leftovers won’t end up in the trash can as spoiled food. Try these and similar ideas to expand your family’s palate, and your time and budget.

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Save Time And Money By Planning Your Meals

What do you do when a meal is finished? Most of us wash the dishes and wrap up the leftovers. But what happens to the leftover portions?

Do they get consumed later? Or do they just sit in the refrigerator until they start to smell and either risk eating them, or you finally throw them out?

If you tend to do the latter, how about saving some time and money by learning how to use those leftovers in new ways to surprise your family at dinner time.

Some people like leftovers and some do not. Men really tend to hate leftovers. Many people might eat them one day later, but since we are omnivores (we eat everything!), most people will quickly get tired of eating the same thing over and over.

Yet at the same time, cooking in larger quantities can save time and money too. It is just as easy to prepare dinner for 4 as it is for one if we are talking about many dishes like stews or casseroles. In addition, a lot of the shopping clubs sell meat and many other fresh foods in very large quantities.

Leftover Magic for Singles

So what is a single gal or guy to do? Or the budget conscious mom looking for wholesome meals?

For the single person, the easiest thing is to cook a quantity for 4, and then use plastic food containers for your own TV dinners, or handy lunches to brown bag to the office to save money.

A leftover stew or meatloaf can go a long way if you divide it up into portions. Label your containers and rotate your meals. You might find you can do all your cooking for a month in only a matter of hours if you are organized and plan ahead.

Another way to use leftovers wisely it is to take a main part of the meal, and spin it into other meals you can then freeze, or take for lunch. For example, you can boil a large quantity of spaghetti, and use it with different pasta sauces, home-made, or jarred.

You can also use it as noodles for stir fry, or eat cold as part of a pasta salad. You can even bake it with milk and egg for a custardy noodle pudding.

You can do something similar with rice, making it into a stiry fry, Spanish rice with turmeric, rice and beans, stuffing with wild rice, even rice pudding.

Save Time And Money By Planning Your Meals

From Yogi Bhajan, Master of Kundalini Yoga

Sit cross-legged on the floor with a straight back, or on a chair with spine straight and feet flat.

Bend your right elbow and raise your hand as thoough taking an oath. Raise the first two fingers, and pin down the other two with your pinkie.

Do the same hand position with your left hand’s fingers, but place the tips of the first two fingers on the breastbone in the center of the chest.

Close your eyes. Move the focus of the breath from the nose, to the center of the brow (the third eye) to the heart, and repeat. Practice this for 3-11 minutes.

Inhanle, exhale and then relax at the end, and feel the sense of well-neing flood through you.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Wooden-let it go!

I am sorry, but I have truly given up on Ms. Dain as an author. Nearly all of her supposed love scenes are nonconsensual. Please, can the romance ‘industry’ get away from the bodice rippers of the 70s already? Intelligent modern readers want so much more. The deflowering of women is just not an entertaining topic, and especially not when done with such graphic and down right crass mishandling.

William finds out the heroine is not a virgin, and immediately blames her without ever once stoping to look around him at the ruined mansion he has got thanks to marrying a total stranger. She is just a possession to him like everything else. He just can’t bear the thought of anyone sharing fun with her except him. He doesn’t understand that every time he calls her Cat and falls upon her like a starving man on his dinner, that this is what her attacker used to do to her. He hardly even bothers to try to understand her point of view until it is forcibly shoved under his nose.

William is not quite as Neanderthal as her other heroes but he comes pretty close. Then we have her rapist Lambert going about scot free and trying to reclaim her. He tries to kill her, and at last she fights back for about a minute. Graphic violence ensues, and that includes William being stabbed in both sides with swords and still surviving to kill the villain. PUH-LEEESE.

We never see any commitment warmth or fondness in any of these books, just unremitting doom and gloom, and miserable lives for all her female characters. This was not really characteristic of the period at all and yes, invasion is not pretty, but life does go on, with love and Christian hope and forgiveness. Again, authors should always beware of imposing their modern sensibilities on their historically based characters, because they then lose a lot of the point as to why they would set the book in that time period on the first place.

This is not quite as depressing as some of Ms. Dain’s other books, but the characters are flat and insipid and not people I ever care about even though we are supposed to admire her as a victim. and him for ‘forgivng’ her for having been raped.

I would rather admire my characters for being brave, noble, loving and committed to one another. As most intelligent readers of romance would. Let this one go for sure.

The first thing you can teach ever author who comes to you for editing advice is, “A romance is the hero and heroine falling in love, and working toward a happily ever after ending.” I wish romance writers would remember that.

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