A SHORT KITCHEN CONVERSATION

When Mother’s Little Helpers were young, we frequently had leftovers from dinner because stages of appetites varied back then.  It was hard to project whether any given night would be that “eat me out of house and home” night.

Old Mother Frugal had her challenges feeding her male offspring. Keenly observing them, their habits reverted back to infancy.  The males fed every 2 hours and then slept for 4 hours. Awoke, fed and slept. Such was the circle of their life.

In an earlier blog post, there was “Some Assembly Required” because there was never anything to eat in the house.  Food was there…it just wasn’t being handed out through a drive-thru window, all nice and tidy and ready to eat.

At times pre-assembled meals did appear in the refrigerator for snacking, however repulsive the process was to one of the Little Helpers.

You see, Old Mother Frugal could not discard any seasoned meat.  Secretly rinsing off the seasonings under cool water, the now unseasoned meat would become the ingredient to a different recipe.

One day, my secret was out as one of the Little Helpers witnessed the transformation of last night’s dinner into today’s pre-assembled snack for the refrigerator. Taco meat was being rinsed under running cool water.

“GROSS”!!!!

[Mother’s Little Helper spoke few words; nothing’s changed to this day].

“Well then don’t look”.

[Old Mother Frugal spoke more words; nothing’s changed to this day].

Mother’s Little Helper walked away. Upon opening the refrigerator door several hours later, lasagna roll-ups had made their appearance for consumption.  Nice and tidy and ready to eat.

SOUND THE BUGLE! Tip: Avoid food waste. Even the smallest amount of leftover food can find some usefulness in another recipe. If you are not going to transform leftovers or use them within 2 days, store them in the freezer. Below is how one pork chop and small amount of leftover chopped broccoli became a pork fried rice dinner!