What can I do with leftovers?
Here’s how to use up a lot of perfectly good vegetables left sitting in your fridge.

  • Pickle leftover summer salad vegetables like cucumbers, tomatoes and red onion by adding them to vinegar and sugar. Try any combination you like and use about 1/2 cup of sugar per 6 ounces of white vinegar.
  • Cook leftover potatoes in a number of ways. Combine mashed potatoes with a little milk, onion and seasoning and make delicious potato cakes. Fry in a lightly oiled non stick pan until medium brown. Use leftover vegetables in pasta dishes or over a  pizza base covered in tomato sauce. Then sprinkle over your cheese and hide all those vegetables that little people may object to! Some favourites include diced tomatoes, mushrooms, peppers, courgette, onions, and olives.
  • Make cheesy vegetables with leftover green beans, broccoli or cauliflower. Make a simple cheese sauce. Jazz it up with a little chilli powder or dried herbs. Add your veggies and voila!
  • Keep homemade or shop bought chicken stock on hand. Add any combination of vegetables you like along with some lentils, pasta or rice. Cook on low, and season to your taste, for an easy and flavoursome soup.
  • Replace boring sandwiches with tasty veggie wraps for a simple and quick way to use  up salad leaves, spring onions, radishes and peppers.
  • Make an ethnic dish with leftover vegetables by stir-frying or sautéing in olive, sesame or peanut oil along with garlic. Add teriyaki sauce if you like an Asian Influence.
  • A large omelette is delicious and filling and best of all you can use up the odds and ends in your vegetable drawer. Pasta sauce lends itself surprisingly well to hiding vegetables. You can chop veggies up into large chunks or steam and puree to really hide them.
  • Soups and stews are the perfect winter food for all those random veggies you never got around to using. In fact many people keep a container in their freezer and anytime they have leftovers, they throw them all together and when the container is full they know it is time to make soup.
  • Large salads can incorporate many leftovers vegetables. Using a potato peeler scrape a carrot into fine stands that are easy to mix in a salad. This makes a great lunch to take to work. Keep your dressing separate, on the side to prevent soggy Salads.