Minimize food waste by planning a leftover night or using similar ingredients for different meals!

Meat

Take any meat (cooked or uncooked) and vegetables you have on hand and sauté them up in a pan with your favorite sauce (soy sauce, teriyaki, etc.) and toss over brown rice, quinoa, pasta, cauliflower rice or whatever you have on hand

A homemade roasted chicken or store bought rotisserie chicken can be used for different meals throughout the week

• Toss it over a salad one night
• Eat it with roasted vegetables and either a sweet potato or regular potato on the side
• Use it for chicken tacos
• Make homemade chicken salad (using celery, grapes, nuts, plain Greek yogurt)
• Use the chicken for white chicken chili

Leftover fish can be used in a variety of ways as well.

• Fill a tortilla with any flaky fish and combination of vegetables to make fish tacos
• Top a salad with tuna, salmon, shrimp
• Use to make salmon or tuna patties

Vegetables 

• Leftover vegetables can be chopped up and put together in a soup – add meat, beans or pasta to bulk it up
• Use leftover vegetables and/or meat to make a quiche, omelet or frittata.
• Use leftover vegetables to make veggie and meat or black bean quesadillas

Pasta 

• Add meat and vegetables to any leftover pasta and add either a white or red sauce and bake
• Take leftover spaghetti noodles along with vegetables and beat egg, pour into muffin and bake

Fruit

• Toss any fruit into a smoothie
• Bananas – use as a sweetener in different dishes – muffins, banana bread, ice cream (https://tasty.co/compilation/banana-ice-cream-4-ways), etc.

Bread

• Stale bread can be used to make breadcrumbs or croutons

If you don’t have enough leftovers for a dinner meal, use the leftovers for lunch the next day

• Wrap leftover meats and veggies in a tortilla or stuff it into a pita pocket
• Top a salad with leftover meats and vegetables.  Can add fruit and nuts as additional toppings.