Leftovers Again

This week was a pretty uneventful week so it was pretty easy to go ahead and commit to cooking. It did save money since I had to buy very little for the week. However the downside (or upside depending on your point of view) is I cooked too much and we have. boatload of leftovers___again. Planning for the week just meant looking in the fridge and seeing what was left that needed to be used. Lots! 

This was what was planned for last week

1. Tazikis copycat lemon chicken soup,  cuke tomato and onion salad, toast

2. Chili, coleslaw, cornbread

3. Collard soup, cornbread

4. Slutty Vegan copycat burger, "fried" pickles, blackberry mayo sauce

5. The Best lentil soup, tossed salad, rolls

6. take out

7. Spaghetti and meatballs, tossed salad

And this is how the week played out:

Monday: I used the chicken bone broth that had been simmering  in the crock pot for a couple of days. (Leftovers mostly eaten for lunches)

Taziki's copy cat lemon chicken soup

Tuesday: This did not use any leftovers, but I had all the fixings in the fridge or freezer, so no additional purchases were required. TheHub did not want cornbread, but chose the corn chips instead. We had those from one of his recreational shopping trips. (Lots of leftovers)

Chili, coleslaw, corn chips 

Wednesday: I had a ton of collard green and black eyed peas left from our NYD meal, plus I still had a good bit of bone broth and a small bag of cooked frozen cajun sausage in the freezer. (lots of leftover soup)

Collard green soup, cornbread

Thursday: I had meatballs in the freezer, and a jar of Rao's marinara in the pantry. I only used 1/2 jar of Rao's  so it has to be used this week somehow)

Spaghetti and meatballs, salad

Friday: I ran to Aldi to stock up on some things like toilet paper, and a couple of other things we use regularly. They had a package of marked down stew meat, and I had a bunch of produce in the refrigerator. 

Beef stew, coleslaw, dinner rolls

Saturday: We had spent the day doing some running around and found a new to us place where we ate lunch. There was no way I was going to cook, so dinner was every man for himself)

 Bits and pieces of leftovers

Sunday: This was the only meal I planned that I knew would require purchasing ingredients I do not normally keep on hand. The Slutty Vegan is supposed to be opening a restaurant in town this year, and Publix had Impossible Burger BOGO this week. I thought I would try it and see if it is somewhere we might want to go once it is opened. (Their burgers there are too expensive to try if we didn't like the meat alternative.) We will be going!

Slutty Vegan copycat burger

And since we had so much leftover from last week, the meals this week are not what we really want, but it is what we are eating anyway! The only exception might be the collard greens soup and I may decide to freeze it.

Meals for the week in no particular order

1. Leftover Chili, coleslaw, cornbread

2. Leftover beef stew over noodles, tossed salad

3. Leftover collard green soup, cornbread or rolls or Orange ginger chicken, rice, broccoli

4. Chicken roll-ups, broccoli, something else but undecided right now (leftover dry stuffing)

5. Chicken parm over spaghetti, tossed salad (using leftover marinara)

6. Ball game meal: heavy apps (Have tons frozen)

7. Egg-roll in a bowl (everything is on hand but al least it's not leftovers)

Have a good week staying on plan, going off plan, or with no plan at all!