What meals make excellent leftovers?

[MomToTwoBoys]

I've been cooking meals large enough to equate into leftovers the next day for a month now. While it's great to have, we get bored with some of them to where I'm looking for a variation to the menu without overspending.

We do lasanga (but expensive with the cheeses included). We do beef stew (but the last time I did a batch, we were hungrier than usual and ate more, so I had to combine it with meatloaf sandwiches). We did do chili for a while, but the beans are a bit much on DH and I's stomachs after a while (I also suffer from IBS, so that's kicking me in the belly, so to speak).

I like to cook food in batches. I don't like cooking meals to where I have to add something the next time to make the meal complete (although with meatloaf, it isn't so bad just to have french fries - completely inexpensive, really).

So, while using inexpensive meats, what are some of your favorite leftovers?

[Libby]

I can see where you're coming from with not wanting to have to keep cooking to use up the leftovers but I think its just assumed? A necessary evil?

Pork roast? Turn leftover into cold pork sammies, cube it up put into soup/stew, cube it up and put it with mac & cheese or scalloped taters, finely dice and use as the meat in fried rice, shred rest and simmer w/bbq sauce in a crockpot for pulled pork?

Same with rotisserie chickens.

Have you tried lentils or tofu instead of a meat source for protein?

HTH

[MaryCarney]

Ham. Add it to scrambled eggs the next day, or just heat and serve as a sandwich on some croissants or biscuits. or turn them into panini.

[Spirit Deer]

Fried rice, spaghetti, goulash, etc. all freeze well.

[FrabjousDay]

Enchiladas. Mmmm.

[ilovechocolate]

Homemade vegetable-beef soup.
Ham.
Roast beef.
Baked chicken.

[oheoh's momma]

I roast 2 whole chickens one day with veggies, the next day soft tacos, next day chicken noodle soup if any left.
baked ham and what ever, next day ham and scalloped potatoes, next day ham, onion, green pepper, ect in egg with cheese omelet, bake or scramble.
These are my favorites have not done this for a while.
I also fry up hamburger meat for tacos, casseroles, spaghetti and toss in freezer.
I also cook 1x a month 5lbs of leg quarters and debone for casseroles and soup.
good luck

[Sophia]

Beef roast is a fav of ours left over. You can turn it into soup, stew, Sandwiches.( dice it up with pepper and onion in a skillet with a little dales and cook till pepper and onion is tender and top with cheese and make a yummy sandwich.) taco's or burrito's. TC

[lwlynch]

Let me see:
I do baked potatoes (whole bag) I usually do a pork butt in crock pot at the same time because my family loves a hickory potato (pulled pork,onions,ranch dressing on potato.) when finished split up the pulled pork into smaller containers 1)to put into pork and beans to make bq beans like a steak place 2) a container for fridge to make bq sandwiches with slaw a few days later 3)the rest to the freezer for another meal. Now for the potatoes with the extra 1) scoop out potato from the skin leaving about a 1/4inch (at this point you can flash freeze them for use later as potatoe skins 2)you can also take filling and mix with butter,cheese,any veggie (broccoli ex) any meat mate shrimp for a twice baked potato (these can also be frozen ahead) 3) with the shells you can sprinkle with cheese and bacon and make potato skins 4) with the filling you can put into a pot with veggies and make potato soup 5)or make potato salad 6) mash and you can make garlic mashed potato 6) mash and keep this wintin wrappers around mix potatoe with one egg and spices and put in woo ton wrapper and seal and sautéed in butter and you have perogies. Seedeater that was a lot of stuff

[lwlynch]

Sorry my iPad self corrects

[Carlad]

Anything in my 7quart crockpot, soups, stews, chili, lasagna.

[sunshine]

Roast a chicken - serve warm the first night. . . then cut slivers of meaty parts and make wraps with lettuce, peppers, chicken , ranch dressing, etc. -- can be served warm or cold.

Then toss any remaining meat in crockpot with BBQ sauce for BBQ chicken sandwiches, pizza

[sunshine]

Ham, then sandwiches, pizza, ham and au gratin potatoes, kebabs, etc.

[Trishagirl]

Roast chicken, then chicken tacos, or enchiladas. Roast Beef, then beef & noodles, or tacos or beef au jus samwiches.

[Spirit Deer]

I always cook at least a ten-pound turkey for two people. Take the leftover meat off the bones, make broth on the bones using veggie scraps I've saved in the freezer, freeze the meat in pint jars, and use for wraps, soups, turkey tacos, sandwiches, salads, etc.