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8 ways to get creative with leftovers

1 CREATE LEFTOVERS WITH PURPOSE

Sam: “I hate waste and having things left in my fridge. So, I’m a big fan of using leftovers. When you batch-cook, you create leftovers for the sake of it, purposefully. I look at it as cook once, eat thrice.”

Zena: “It’s a fun little challenge. You get into your fridge and it’s like, okay, you’ve had this great meal, how can you turn it into something even better and different and cool?”

2 COOK WHAT YOU WANT, BEFORE YOU WANT IT

“Batch-cooking is about

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