Top 6 to 10 Most Common Household Leftover Foods and How to Creatively Use Then Anew

6.  Poultry

• Chop up that bird meat into cubes and toss into salad greens seasoned with the usual salad trimmings.
• Shred chicken or turkey meat and combine with ranch dressing and sour cream for a tangy taco filling.
• Roughly chop up poultry meat into bite-sized pieces and mix with Alfredo sauce, carrots, peas and celery.  Bake into piping hot pot pies.
• Whip up a Cobb salad by tossing together shredded turkey meat, shredded lettuce, bacon, hard-cooked eggs, avocado slices, cranberries, tomatoes and blue cheese.
• Serve creamy, steamy hot chicken and wild rice soup with diced pimiento and a dollop of heavy cream.
 

7.  Beef

• Come up with beef pot pies by sneaking in cubed beef into a flaky pie crust along with thick mushroom gravy and some vegetables.
• Make an otherworldly-tasting bread by tucking in shreds of beef inside mustard-flavored bread dough.
• Drizzle leftover beef with barbecue sauce and shape into patties.  Top with burger trimmings and tuck inside burger buns for a resurrected burger.
• Dice beef and use as condiment for stir-fried veggies.
 

8.  Ham

• Leftover ham is a good excuse for cooking up ham and cheese pizza.
• You can serve 8 people out of 2 cups of ham if you stretch it by adding wild rice, onions, garlic, carrots, corn and peas, slow-cooked into a comforting chowder.
• Use little squares of ham to pepper salad greens with tiny bursts of flavor and color.
• Ham can sub even better than any meat for most casserole dishes, be they pasta-based or vegetable ones.
 

9.  Bread

• Let bread turn over a new leaf by making it into that old, breakfast comfort food, French toast.
• Oven-dry buttered bread cubes for quick croutons that you can toss into your salads or into soups.
• Spread butter and condensed milk on bread and toast for a crunchy and sweet snack.
• Make day-old bread into turkey stuffing.
 

10.  Apples

• Cook apples into a thick applesauce along with water, vanilla and sugar.  Pan-fry bread crumbs in a little butter and layer this alternately with the cooked applesauce.
• Core the apples and stuff into the holes a mixture of sugar, cinnamon, raisins and butter.  Place apples in a baking dish with an inch deep of water and bake for 40 minutes.  Baste apples with juices and serve.
• Apple cubes give a tangy crunch when tossed into salad greens.