Random Trivia:
We all have leftover food, and we all know that it just gets wasted. But did you know that there are actually some really good ways to eat your leftovers? It’s true! And some of them might even save you money.
Save time the next day and bring the family together with a delicious leftovers dinner.
You know what’s a great way to save time and money? Leftovers. They’re easy as can be, too: all you have to do is throw a few ingredients together in some Bucket of Bread dough and dinner is ready in minutes! A new twist the second time around. Just grab a fork and dig in.
Not only does bringing leftovers back into the family repertoire make for a more balanced meal (no one gets hungry at the table), but it also helps reduce waste by preventing food from going bad before you’ve eaten it all.
The leftover random internet factoids
- 50% of all whole bird turkeys sold in the U.S. are consumed in a single day due to Thanksgiving.
Because of a mistake involving 260 tons of frozen turkeys, TV dinners were created in 1953, kickstarting the $1.2 billion frozen dinner market. - 58.63% of Thanksgiving travel survey respondents are planning to stay close to home for the holidays.
- Reservations for short-term rentals such as Airbnb and Vrbo for holiday travel 2021 are up 377% over 2020 and 91% over 2019.
186.4 million U.S. consumers shopped in-store or online for the weekend of Black Friday 2020, more than half of the U.S. population of 329.5 million people. - In 1955, Dorcas Reilly was tasked with creating a simple recipe to be picked up by newspapers that would make it easy and quick for home cooks to assemble the dish with ingredients on hand — specifically Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom soup and canned green beans.
The dish was initially intended to be an everyday meal, yet took off as a Thanksgiving tradition once Campbell’s put the recipe on the soup can label. The recipe is viewed online 4 million times each Thanksgiving.
I hope this article has been entertaining and helpful for your recipe ideas! If you have any questions or comments, reach out!
