20 Leftovers Meals Recipes Ideas

20 Leftovers Meals Recipes Ideas. Easy dinner, lunch or breakfast meals to create with meats or vegetables as friendly leftover foods.

20 Leftovers Meals Recipes Ideas

20 Leftovers Meals Recipes Ideas. Easy dinner, lunch or breakfast meals to create with meats or vegetables as friendly leftover foods. Save left overs and add to what’s in the fridge, for lunch or supper, that ends up a scrumptious meal. Everybody needs to use all the foods that are left over to make light meals. We provide some amazing recipes to choose from and to inspire you to use those left overs wisely. Whether they are Breakfast or lunch or snack ideas.

Food is expensive and there is no need to waste. No Bake uses for meats for fillings for sandwiches or salads and salad rolls or vetkoek fillings as well as fillings for wraps or tortillas. Also use them in quiches and puff pastry hand pies or large dinner pie. Make a breakfast Crepe or omelets with fillings from left overs.

Make other Oven Bake casserole dish meals with the meats or vegetables as well. Stir fries with meats or chicken and vegetables. Curry filling for vetkoek or pies or even some buns. Quiches are an amazing recipe to use all types of left overs. Not forgetting some pies, small or large. Then there is this meat loaf, scrumptious.

What meal is good for leftovers?

meat loaves with either chicken or red meats
casseroles dishes with added pasta and vegetables.
pies or pastries
pizza toppings
quiches
omelets or crepes for breakfast
wraps and tortilla fillings
stir fries
sandwiches or salad rolls or subs rolls.

There are so many recipes ideas to create with left over foods that are reusable. You would have to add and ingredient or two to complete the dish. But that is minimal.

What foods are good to reheat?

Foods that are preheatable are:

pies, tarts, and casseroles dishes. They can be reheated without leaving soggy food in the dish. That means reheating for a shorter period of time.
Even barbecue or braaied or grilled meats are preheatable. Covering the food will not allow them to dry out.
For reheating buns or cookies and baked goods, I would just baste them with a little water before hand and they will not dry out at all. Reheating buns is what i do all the time.

What foods should not be eaten as leftovers?

For safety reasons there are some foods that can not be reheated. That said you can include chicken once kept chilled, in casserole dishes or stove top cooking recipes ideas.

mushrooms that could cause stomach upsets
reheating rice can lead to bacterial poisoning. (that is also keeping rice over)
eggs
seafoods
fries and oily foods
chicken can be dangerous to if not kept chilled well.

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Chicken Bacon Black Bean Quiche

Chicken Bacon Black Bean Quiche recipe. An easy savory quiche idea with a short bread pastry recipe, uses left over chicken and egg custard.

Black Bean & Corn Burrito Wraps

Make these Black Bean & Corn Burrito Wraps for a light lunch or tasty breakfast meal. Easy vegetarian no bake recipe for burrito wraps. Use left overs from meals to make some wraps or crepes.

Summer Beef Strips Stir Fry

Summer Beef Strips Stir Fry recipe. An easy and quick healthy warm meal for lunch or dinner for a family with vegetables and steak and sauce.

Easy Chicken Asparagus Stir fry

Easy Chicken Asparagus Stir fry summer recipe idea is a healthy and simple dish that is quick to put together for a meal with a savory sauce.

Chicken Bacon Butternut Pasta Dish

Chicken Bacon Butternut Pasta Dish recipe idea. All in one creamy casserole for a dinner or lunch meal for the family on those chilly days.

A Filling Homemade Chicken Salad

A Filling Homemade Chicken Salad recipe. An easy yet protein packed healthy side dish for a meal or braai and barbecue, summer salads.

Easy Turkey Loaf from Leftovers

Easy Turkey Loaf from Leftovers of any type of meats and some vegetables. Use ingredients in your fridge to create delicious meals and save.

Creamy Chicken & Broccoli Pasta Casserole

Creamy Chicken & Broccoli Pasta Casserole recipe dish with sauté mushroom and bacon. Baked with cheddar cheese and herbs and spices.

Creamy Chicken and Veggie Pie

Other pies to make could be lamb or beef with some vegetables.

Homemade Savory Hand Pies

A Homemade Savory Hand Pies recipe idea that is flaky from the puff pastry with a tasty filling of saucy ground beef, veggies and potato.

Christmas Day Cold Meat Platter.

A meat platter for cold meals during the holiday season with salads. Make sandwiches with these left over cuts, adding some sauces are so amazing.

Chicken A La King & Rice

Chicken A La King & Rice is an amazing dish made from scratch with shredded chicken or left over chicken with a fresh tasty rice dish and veggies.

A Filling Homemade Chicken Salad

Salads are very versatile so use any meats for salads and then combine your left over salads with them. Add some pasta and sauce and then you have an amazing meal. Salads can be kept in a fridge for a day or two sealed covered. Use your red meats in the salads as well.