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Serving homemade meals every day doesn’t have to be hard or time consuming. There are lots of tips, tricks & easy shortcuts. Come see!
How To Make Homemade Meals Daily – The EASY Way
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Different Flavors Dress Up Plain Pinto Beans
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I cook a large amount of dried pinto beans at one time. Then I portion out and flavor them in several different ways. It’s fast because the beans have already been cooked. And we enjoy lots of variety for different meals too!
Summer Cooking: Savory Meatloaf Recipe (Includes Solar Cooking Option)
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Meatloaf is a versatile comfort food and we enjoy it often. The recipe below uses a standard oven, but I share solar oven cooking instructions too.
Homestead Hack: Quickest Planned Leftover Meal Of All!
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I love Planned Leftovers. Especially this BBQ pulled pork because it’s so quick, so easy yet so delicious. Looking for a quick meal with precious little hands-on time? Check out this homestead hack.
Pulled Pork Enchiladas From Leftover Roast
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I cooked a huge pork roast & made easy enchiladas the next night with the leftover meat! Planned leftovers is an important part of meal planning in my Homestead kitchen. 
Planned Leftovers: Carnitas Tacos from Pork Roast
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I hate food waste. Now I’m sure we ALL hate food waste, but for some reason it’s a deep-seated hatred for me. I’m not sure where such strong feelings originate – I never recall going hungry a day in my life. But for some reason I simply cannot stand food waste. I keep an eye on food freshness in my kitchen like a ninja!
I’ve spoken before about my Cook-Once, Eat-Twice method of cooking where you cook a boatload of main dish & freeze the rest for future meals. These entrees will be served exactly as they were cooked. Homemade Meat Ravioli or Stuffed Bell Peppers are two examples.
But there’s another method of cooking I often employ to stop food waste in its tracks: Planned Leftovers. This is a little different, a main ingredient is made in large quantities and then the leftovers are made into completely different dishes.
For instance I might cook a Slow-Cooker Sticky-Chicken one night and then make Tortilla Soup with the leftover chicken. Make sense?
Now hear this: recently I purposely made massive quantities of Slow Cooker Pork Roast. One of my all-time favorite leftovers planning is Carnitas Tacos. Oh man you’re gonna love this!
