Left Over Cooking Ideas: BBQ Burger Lunch Combo

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I love leftovers.  It becomes almost a game to me.. I ask myself ways to extend a meal especially when I'm eating out.  Or getting treated by work.  Like this day I got a lunch order of a BBQ Burger with Bacon and french fries.  I made it my goal to start with the Fries since those get cold and soggy and are not good for left overs.  Then I ate the small coleslaw side.  Once I ate that I barely could finish the Burger ! Hint hint that was the point.  But I made an effort eat half of it and save the rest for another meal.  There is a method to my madness lol I always get bacon if its FREE aka company is treating or same priced to another menu item.  I never eat it and just save it for BREAKFASTS!  So this ONE lunch order I was able to stretch out into 3 meals.

Meal two above, all I did was take out the bacon.  Fry it with an egg, and toasted leftover bread I had from another meal and topped with cheap american cheese.  To make a cheap next day breakfast sandwich.  ($.10 for the egg, $.10 for cheap cheese) so $.20 extra cents!

AND MEAL THREE, was just half the burger with the bacon taken out, the meat portions were huge on this so all there meals were filling.  And to jazz it up, I added some lettuce and tomato after reheating the burger.

LEFT OVER cooking Ideas: Raw Veggie Wrap

So I got a bunch of these Collard Green THAI wraps from a dive and because its RAW, I wanted to cook what I couldn't eat to preserve the food.  So GREAT point is when in doubt make FRIED RICE.. you can do this with most leftovers.  With this combo of veggies and there was Mango, I decided on making fried rice but added Korean Red Pepper Paste. I also used a combo of leftover rice, 1 part white rice and 2 parts brown rice. So it had a taste very similar to Mixed BIMIBAP.

SO yummi!  ANd healthy vegetarian, I actually made a big batch and froze half of it.  Great easy microwable meal if your in a hurry too!

Gazpacho Verde Left Over Ideas

LEFTOVER GAZPACHO VERDE IDEAS

Freeze it.  Yes the texture will change so I just puree it and freeze it.

When your ready for another cold cup, if u like it chunky just add a little bit of chopped cucumbers and tomato.

Heat it up and make what I did a HOT Gazpacho Verde soup with SHRIMP and brown rice.  Basically left overs soup.  This actually turned out so yummi!  I just quickly stir fried 3 shrimps, heated the soup, put in leftover frozen spinach and some left over brown rice.  

Make it Salsa, by adding Chopped Chunky Unions and Tomato's.

Use heated version as a MEAT sauce, similar to Spanish Style Rice dishes. I have a feeling this would taste great over White FISH with refried beans on the side.

Or use as soup base for another soup.

Thai Collard Wrap

Organic Avenues Thai Collard Wrap, super filling and healthy!

$9 in store !

Basically an entirely RAW meal .

Kale Quinoa Salad

New Year Resolution, to eat healthy!  I was doing so well until the holidays when I took a mini break from Diving.  But now I'm back and healthy is a big focus for me this year.

Anyways, went on my first dive of the year and picked up at least 5 of these Kale Quinoa salads.  Since I can only eat so much and I really wanted to preserve these because their such high quality ORGANIC ingredients.  I decided to separate the Kale leaves from the Hemp seeds and Quinoa so I could freeze them.  The Kale I'll freeze for Omlettes and SOUPS!  And Quinoa I'll also freeze them for recipes later on.

Roasted Squash Kabocha and Beet Salad with Fennel

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Starting the first post of the year with super Vegan Recipe Idea

Organic Avenues Roasted Squash  & Beet Salad

Fennel leaves, Kabocha Squash, Golden Beets and fancy organic dressing.

Honestly, as highly priced everything in this store is I can see its appeal if you were wealthy. Everything in there you know is mostly organic and they really use high quality ingredients.  But I'm not so I use their product line as a guideline for copy cat receipes.  Organic avenues salads cost over $10.  This Roasted Squash and Beet Salad is really filling and healthy.  Analyzing this salad, I came to realize its  a really simple salad that you can make at home for under $3 easy.  And even less if you mass produce it.  Is that extra $7 really worth their fancy dressing?

I literally dissected the whole box and its a couple of pieces of Kabocha Squash aka Japanese pumpkin that I've always raved about I can get on sale in season for $.39 /lb, currently on sale for around $.59/lb.  Fennel the leaves are not a ton and looks to be maybe 2 beets worth in the salad.  The only thing you have to buy Organic is the Fennel since the Squash and Beets are root like veggies with tough skins!

To make out home all you have to do is roast or even steam the Kabocha ,cut it up and you can put in separate container or baggie.  The Beets you only have to cut up!  And since Fennel is a really tough leaf, you can even leave the entire salad together when you bring this to work.