Thanksgiving Leftovers - Enjoy them well into January

Thanksgiving is a holiday to spend time with your family, be thankful for what you have and enjoy a large meal full of the tastes of the fall season. If your family is like mine, you have enough food for 30 when you are only feeding 10. That means a lot of food is leftover. We can only eat so much turkey, mash potatoes, stuffing and cranberry sauce before it gets old. To make the winter holidays a breeze with meals already prepared in the freezer we use some of the leftovers to transform them into other meals.

If you have a lot or a little leftover from Thanksgiving why not take some time and make some additional meals that you can store in your freezer all the way to January. We are a family of 5 and when I create meals I pack them in serving sizes of 6. If you are a single college student, retired couple, or family of 10, you can pack these meals in pre-portioned sizes.

For some recipes we have tried and enjoy, click on the links below:

Turkey, Bacon and Swiss Sandwiches
Turkey Noodle Casserole
Turkey Shepherds Pie
Turkey Corn Chowder
Turkey Pot Pies 
Turkey Pockets
Chicken Stuffing Bake
Crockpot Cranberry Chicken
Vegan Pistachio - Cranberry "chicken"
Butternut Squash Lasagna
Cranberry Muffins
Crockpot Cranberry Apple Porkloin
Cranberry Sauce Scones
Cranberry Banana Bread

Feel free to substitute any thing in these recipes for a homemade items. You can make your own Cream of "something" soup, biscuits, and stuffing (made in the crock pot and could be gluten free with rice bread)



So gather the family and make a few dishes to enjoy later on in the season.  Save yourself some stress of trying to figure out what you will eat on those busy winter holiday nights.