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How to use leftovers all week — UK school-night system
Leftovers die in the fridge when they have no name and no night. Label and schedule them.
Seven moves. From roast to Friday.
- Name every box. Write the dish and the night it will be eaten. Marker on lid.
- Front of fridge. Eat-soon shelf at eye level. Back of fridge is a graveyard.
- Remix rule. Roast chicken becomes wraps, then fried rice. Same protein, new plate.
- Carb swap. Rice Monday, jacket Tuesday, pasta Wednesday. Stops same-again complaints.
- Soup night. Veg scraps and stock. One blender. Freezer bags for next week.
- Freeze by Thursday. If it is still there and not planned, freeze or bin. No guilt.
- Grid on paper. Five nights written. The free meal grid makes this automatic.