Food Cycling

You can cycle economy sizes of basic ingredients using your imagination and some solid meal planning. Using leftover ingredients for a second meal can save you both time and money with a little creativity.

Here are a few examples....

Let's take two ingredients: A whole chicken and one bunch of celery (the kind with leaves). These two ingredients can be combined with other ingredients to make multiple types of meals. Here are just a few ideas: Cook the whole chicken in a Reynolds oven bag for a delicious baked chicken. Next, wash each stalk of celery then remove the leaves only from the celery (don't throw the leaves away). Cut up the thinner portion of the celery stalk which was attached to the leaves and the larger (white colored) part of the celery stalk at the bottom of each stalk of celery into fine cube-like pieces. Cut up the leftover chicken and mix it with the celery. Add fruits such as leftover grapes and leftover nuts if desired. Mix in some mayonnaise for meal number two with the chicken - chicken salad. Now, take the leftover celery stalks and cut them into smaller pieces about the length of your pinky finger. Add some peanut butter inside for a quick and tasty snack or cut up the celery into very small pieces and use it to stretch the meat in some spaghetti sauce. Now, use those leftover celery leaves, some remaining chicken and a few other ingredients such as leftover spaghetti noodles to make a warm and hearty chicken noodle soup.