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I recently teamed up with Glad Food Protection to take the #SAVEITSUNDAY pledge to not only help eliminate food waste in my own kitchen, but to show you some cool and creative ways you can reduce food waste in yours.

What is the #SAVEITSUNDAY pledge?

Well basically it’s about loving food more and wasting it less, one day at a time.

We’ve covered leftovers before and talked all about how to properly store leftovers to prevent food waste. You’ve saved them in your Glad containers, and Glad storage bags. Now what? You are left with a full fridge of properly stored leftovers. You have spaghetti left, but no more garlic bread; taco meat, but no more tortillas; mashed potatoes, but no more chicken. An entire fridge full of a hodgepodge of food.

So have a hodgepodge dinner.

Step 1: Open your fridge and remove all leftovers.

Step 2: Assess the contents. Most leftovers should be eaten within 4 days, so if you have moldy lasagna from 2 weeks ago, I don’t recommend repurposing it.

Step 3: Divide into categories. Hopefully you have enough leftovers to have a main dish, a bunch of random sides and a dessert or two {who am I kidding, desserts are scarfed down the 1st day and there are never any dessert leftovers!}. Although having a hodgepodge meal of random sides and only random sides is awesome too.

Step 4: Spice up your meal. I’m not talking about adding paprika, but decorating for your hodgepodge meal. This step is especially fun if you have young kids. If you are going to have a wacky meal spanning all different food types, have a little fun with it. Set the table will all mismatching plates, cups, etc. Make crazy food labels, placemats or place cards.

Have a little fun with your hodgepodge meal and you’ll be using up all those leftovers in the process.

Looking for more ideas? Head on over HERE where you’ll learn lot’s of cool tips and tricks to keep the food you love fresher, longer from Glad Food Protection. From one protector to another — we salute you.

Have you ever served a random assortment of leftovers as a meal? Did you family love it or revolt?

~Mavis

Glad knows a lot about protecting the food you love. But they’re always impressed by your protective nature, too. Let Glad help protect and wrap the food you love to help keep it fresher, longer. From one protector to another — we salute you.

For more information about the #SAVEITSUNDAY Pledge and how you can enter to win a gourmet chef prepared meal in your home, head on over to SAVEITSUNDAY.com. You can also follow Glad on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and Pinterest.