MMMMMM - good way to use leftovers!

1 Cup white Rice

1 Container of Garlic Cooking Cream

Remainder of the bag of cheeder cheese that is in your fridge.....

1 Frozen bag  of Broccoli

Some chicken- idealy, left over chicken! In this case, package of 99% ff chicken

Sleave of Ritz crackers

1/2 cup milk

This is a recipie that my sister and I adapted from Philidelphia Cooking Creams cook book- we added the rice :)

This would be a GREAT dinner to make out of leftovers- any chicken that you have left from the week, and probably any veggies too.

Cook your white rice, and chicken if you are not using left overs

Once its cooked, throw it into a lasagna pan

Toss in your leftover cheese, 1/2 cup milk, and container of cooking cream

MIX MIX MIX

Crush up your crackers, put them on top

Cook in the oven until melted/warmed through- Really, you are just waiting for everything to mix.

This give you a TON of servings, and is a GREAT use of leftovers. I made it for dinner one night, and got two adult servings, then (probably more then anyone needed ;)) and then several servings of leftovers.

Lets talk about cost- in a perfect world, we are re-using left overs- BUT if we are not......

1 Cup white Rice - .25

1 Container of Garlic Cooking Cream - BUY THIS ON SALE - OR with coupons- there are some great ones out there - 1.5 AT THE MOST!  (in this case it was free:))

Remainder of the bag of cheeder cheese that is in your fridge..... .75

1 Frozen bag  of Broccoli -$1

Some chicken- idealy, left over chicken! In this case, package of 99% ff chicken -$2.25

Sleave of Ritz crackers - .62

1/2 cup milk - .25

SO $6.62.... or $1.10 per serving, if you figure 6 servings.

IF YOU ARE USING LEFTOVERS- .72 at the most PER SERVING!

I'm working on making sure that we waste less. Nothing makes me more angry then dumping what would have been perfectly good food out of my fridge and into the trash can. Well there are a few things that make me more angry, but I'm tired of wasting money!  SO I am hoping that I can find some new dinners that re use left overs, and cook only one. Thats my other newer thing- making sure that I cook enough that I dont have to buy lunch the next day- a built in savings of around 2.5!