15 Simple and Tasty Ways to Use Leftovers for Family Dinners
Who says leftovers have to be boring? Change your family dinners with these simple recipes that turn last night’s leftovers into tonight’s feast.
Save time, cut costs, and delight your family with meals they’ll actually be excited to see on the table. These recipes all work by substituting the veggies for whatever you have left in your fridge!
Ready for some surprisingly delightful dinner ideas? Let’s dive in!
Turkey Tetrazzini
This turkey tetrazzini is extremely flavorful and a great way to use leftover holiday turkey. Chicken would work just as well.
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Veggie Pinwheel Tortilla Rollups
These vegetable pinwheels with cream cheese are the perfect little snack. Veggie-packed pinwheels are way more portable than a dip when you pile them all on a plate. Naturally vegetarian, creamy and full of flavor, you’ll want to make these little rollups all the time. They are so easy to make!
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Crispy Apple Chips
These crispy apple chips are an amazingly easy, sweet treat that can be a healthy snack all year long! You might have had store-bought apples chips before, but now you’re going to learn to make apple chips yourself, right at home in your oven!
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High Protein Chicken Bread
This flourless bread is made with chicken breast (or turkey!) and veggies, thrown in a blender! It’s gluten-free, low-carb and low-fat, and a practical and effortless way of consuming your proteins: The perfect keto bread for a bodybuilding diet!
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Savory Hand Pies (Various Fillings And Crust options)
No time to make your own savory hand pie crust? Get puff pastry, refrigerated biscuit dough, and Pillsbury pie crust options here as well. Gluten free? Find a gluten free savory hand pie option as well. If you are looking for a vegetarian or vegan hand pie, that is here, too. Make some to eat right away or freeze some for later.
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Turkey Bolognese
Here’s a fantastic way to use up leftover turkey, especially after the holidays. This dish easily transforms your leftovers into a delightful new dish everyone will gobble up.
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Buffalo Chicken Tacos
Combine your taco and wing nights with these Buffalo Chicken Tacos. Make a flavorful dinner the whole family will love.
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Hummus Bagel with Veggies
This ultimate Hummus Bagel with Veggies, perfect for anyone looking to eat healthier in just 8 minutes. Plus, you can either make a bagel sandwich or keep your bagel open-faced depending on your preference!
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Crispy Chicken Tacos
This Crispy Chicken Tacos recipe features the most delicious combination of juicy garlic and lemongrass marinated chicken, crunchy tortilla chips, and soft corn tortilla shells. This taco dish has the crispy and crunchy texture filling within a soft taco! You get the best of both worlds!
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Avocado Chicken Salad
Do you have veggies about to go bad? This avocado chicken salad is light and delicious, the best salad you will ever make with simple lemon dressing. Serve this chicken salad as a side or a complete meal. No mayo or sour cream is needed.
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One Pot Chicken and Rice
This one pot chicken and rice recipe is as good as it gets! Easy clean up, adaptable, scalable and – most importantly – downright delicious, this is a recipe that will zoom straight to the top of your favorite easy recipes list.
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Healthy Chicken Piccata
Left over chicken? This healthy chicken piccata recipe is served over zucchini noodles (or zoodles, if you want to be one of the cool kids), and that makes it a delicious and low carb option for any paleo, gluten-free, keto, or Whole30 diet. Add any extra veggies you might have in your fridge or party to this dish!
Get the Recipe: Healthy Chicken Piccata
Cheeseburger Sloppy Joes
Grab that left over ground meat! These Cheeseburger Sloppy Joes are on the table in about 15 minutes! You can even make them entirely ahead for quick dinners and meal prep throughout the week. Or, you can freeze the ground beef mixture to stockpile lightning-fast dinners for months!
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Curried Chicken Salad
Don’t let that celary go to waste! Curried Chicken Salad is packed full of tender chicken, crunchy almonds, celery, sautéed onions and sweet grapes. After one bite, you are going to be making this chicken salad again and again. It’s that good!
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Fried spaghetti with eggs
This simple recipe results in crispy spaghetti with a creamy garlicky sauce that pulls it all together in just minutes. Only 5 ingredients & 15 minutes for the best spaghetti with scrambled eggs you have ever had.
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