{"id":912,"date":"2010-01-22T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allisontait.com\/leftovers-are-the-new-takeaway\/"},"modified":"2021-03-22T14:32:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T03:32:48","slug":"leftovers-are-the-new-takeaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allisontait.com\/2010\/01\/leftovers-are-the-new-takeaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftovers are the new takeaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>*Edit: I keep this post because it was the very first post on this blog in 2010<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>My move south last year coincided with the GFC, which wasn&#8217;t a bad thing. It actually helped me through those first few months when my shopping options dwindled to not very many and the home delivery menus no longer needed a drawer of their own.<\/p>\n<p>From a funky inner-west bastion of Thai, Vietnamese, Greek, Lebanese, Italian et al cheap eateries, I have been reduced to multinational pizza joints, multinational fast food joints, fish and chips, a whole lot of Chinese restaurants (sweet and sour anyone?) and one lone Indian (pretty good, since you asked).<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So I&#8217;ve hit the kitchen. Now if I want a night off from cooking for the family, I need to have planned (48 hours in advance) leftovers. Tasty leftovers. Leftovers that people will actually eat without turning their noses up and feigning sudden illness. Leftovers that won&#8217;t cause sudden illness.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s not easy. My new BFFs are recipe mags like Super Food Ideas and Good Taste, and you know what &#8211; they&#8217;re great! Easy, tasty meals that don&#8217;t require a list of gourmet ingredients as long as my arm. I&#8217;m in love. But not as much as I love <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taste.com.au\/\">taste.com.au<\/a>, the online archive of these two mags and three more besides.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We&#8217;re saving heaps of money, too. I fed four of us for $107 last week. Breakfast, lunch and dinner. I know that there are people who can do it for less (possibly the same people who save their soap scraps to make new bars), but it used to cost me closer to $200 and we&#8217;d have takeaway two nights a week on top of that.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I discovered that a shopping list is the best place to start when you want to save money and eat well. Plan your meals like Nanna used to. 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