Top 5 Rollover Meals

What’s for dinner tonight? How about tomorrow? This episode helps you answer both questions--with favorite rollover meals from me and my guests, Andrea Clark and Hillary Hess. Rollover meals allow you to take parts of one meal and roll it into another meal, to save time, money, and the tedium of leftovers.

You can find more resources from Hillary Hess at helpingofhappiness.com and from Andrea Clark at apurposefulhome.com

Here is a list of all of the meal pairings we recommended in this episode, with links to recipes when available:

Andrea

1. Chicken and Rice/ Hawaiian Haystacks/Fried Rice

2. Tacos (Pork or chicken) to Nachos

3. Scrambled Egg and Sausage/Breakfast Burritos

4. Rotisserie chicken with veggie, sourdough bread, or in a tortilla/leftover chicken to Thai Coconut Curry: https://everyday-reading.com/simple-thai-chicken-curry/

5. Navajo tacos- use the chili leftover for baked potatoes, cornbread

Bonus:

Meatballs: spaghetti/meatball subs

Pot Roast/sandwiches on french bread with meat and peppers

Hillary

 1. Chicken with salsa/taquitos or enchiladas

2. Tri-Tip-leftovers into stir-fry or fajitas

3. Hawaiian Haystacks/chicken pot pie

4. Leftover rice/rice cereal, pudding

5. Mashed potatoes/potato cheese soup

Bonus: Watermelon/Watermelon feta salad/watermelon juice/watermelon popsicles 

Whitney

1. Mashed Potatoes/Ajiaco (Columbian Chicken and Potato soup) (Link: https://www.mycolombianrecipes.com/ajiaco-bogotano-colombian-chicken-and/ 

2. Mashed potatoes/shepherd's pie

3. Chicken or pork/ lettuce wraps

4. Roast Beef and veggies/Ropa Vieja

5. Salmon/salmon patties with avocado

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