Whew! Things are getting busy around here. Pesach cleaning is in full swing, and I’ll be honest, that means some corners are being cut in other areas of life.<\/p>\n
Enter: leftovers.<\/strong><\/p>\n As a busy mother trying to maintain a work-life balance, I’ve trained my family’s diet into one that utilizes its fair share of leftovers.<\/strong> I won’t necessarily serve the exact same menu ever time, and a new side dish, or configuration of the meal might be offered, but I simply don’t have time to make an entire meal every evening.<\/p>\n Leftovers can be a lifesaver, saving time, money, and sanity.<\/strong> Well, that is if the original dish was one your family liked first-time-round!<\/p>\n With Pesach fast approaching, and less time for cooking, I’ve been pulling out previously cooked dishes as I empty my freezer, and have been cooking in larger quantities to stretch meals beyond one night.<\/p>\n Meal Plan Week 10 – Leftovers and Life’s Balance<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Friday night – Gefilte fish, spaghetti and meatballs, green beans, mushroom potato boureka roll, and whole wheat banana chocolate chip cake.<\/p>\n Shabbos lunch – Gefilte fish, Hawaiian wine sauce brisket, strawberry mango romaine salad with honey dijon dressing,\u00a0mushroom \u00a0potato boureka roll, and whole wheat banana chocolate chip cake.<\/p>\n Sunday – Restaurant outing for a family celebration<\/p>\n Monday – Spaghetti and meatballs, green beans<\/p>\n Tuesday – Brisket,\u00a0mushroom potato boureka roll, peas, and melon<\/p>\n Wednesday – Spaghetti lasagna bake, peas, and melon<\/p>\n Thursday – Homemade bean burritos from the freezer<\/p>\n What are your favorite dishes to make in big batches and serve throughout the week? How do you dress up leftovers so your family will enjoy them? Please share!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whew! Things are getting busy around here. Pesach cleaning is in full swing, and I’ll be honest, that means some corners are being cut in other areas of life. Enter: leftovers. As a busy mother trying to maintain a work-life balance, I’ve trained my family’s diet into one that utilizes its fair share of leftovers. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,8,12,16],"tags":[46,64,79,98],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-homemaking","category-meal-planning","category-pesach","category-working-moms","tag-freezer-cooking","tag-leftovers","tag-passover","tag-spaghetti-and-meatballs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitachonbalanceandblessings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitachonbalanceandblessings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitachonbalanceandblessings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitachonbalanceandblessings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitachonbalanceandblessings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitachonbalanceandblessings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitachonbalanceandblessings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitachonbalanceandblessings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}