Not sure what to do with Thanksgiving Leftovers? Here’s a huge roundup of Thanksgiving Leftover Recipes to help you turn those leftovers into new dishes.
Have you ever had Thanksgiving leftover overload? It’s caused by eating too much turkey, stuffing, and mashed potatoes that you just can’t eat any more of it. Eating the same thing for days can sometimes be difficult, but before you let your leftovers go to waste, think about this…
- Americans waste 40% of the food we bring home
- 870 million people don’t have enough food to eat
- Average American family tosses out 20 lbs. of food each month
- Wasting food also means we are wasting the resources used to produce it (water, energy, and more)
Shocking isn’t?! So, to help us do better and not waste the food that we’ve been blessed with, how about remaking it into something new! Here are 50 recipes from great bloggers that help us use leftover turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, and cranberry sauce in some very creative ways.
Thanksgiving Leftover Recipes – Turkey, Mashed Potatoes, Stuffing, & Cranberry Sauce
Thanksgiving Leftover Recipes – Turkey
When I have leftover turkey, I usually just make turkey sandwiches, baked meatballs, or pot pie. What are you favorite ways to use up leftover turkey?
Thanksgiving Leftover Recipes – Mashed Potatoes
It’s rare that we ever have any leftover mashed potatoes because my family LOVES it. However, on the rare occasion that we do have leftovers, here are some great recipes that I would love to try. There’s even a doughnut recipe!
Thanksgiving Leftover Recipes – Cranberry Sauce
Honestly, I’m not a cranberry sauce fan. I think it carried over from when I was younger and had my first taste of a very tart cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving. Granted, I should probably give it another shot since my tastes have changed a lot and I’m sure I would have no problem eating any of the recipes below 🙂
Thanksgiving Leftovers – Stuffing
Stuffing is another item that we rarely have leftover in our house. Although, I would totally make extra stuffing just to make sure I could make some of these recipes. I especially want to make the turkey and dumpling soup….yummy!
Hope this round-up of recipes helps to combat leftover overload and prevents any leftover waste.
Need more Thanksgiving leftover recipe ideas for turkey and ham bone? Check out these posts for some great recipe ideas…
G’day and what a post Erlene! Lots of time and Thanksgiving energy!
Thank you for including a recipe via What’s On the List too! GREATLY appreciate! Pinned, sharing all around today!
Cheers! Joanne
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This is a fantastic collection and inspiration for all our Thanksgiving leftovers. There are so many recipes I can make. Thanks so much for putting this together and for including my cranberry filled muffins.
Joanne
Thanks Joanne for sharing your recipe. It looks like a wonderful way to use up cranberry sauce.
Oh my gosh…I don’t even know where to start! What a fantastic round-up!
Thanks Kristen. Did you have any leftovers to try any of these or do you have a favorite leftover recipe of your own?
I’m always looking for tasty ways to use up Thanksgiving leftovers. And you’ve shared some really good ones! Thanks!
Thanks Alli. I love all of these recipes and I just wish I had more leftovers to try them all.
Oh my goodness! Just look at all these. I can’t wait to have some leftovers so I can dig in and try!
Your bars look so delicious that I just had to share it. Thanks for sharing your recipe with everyone.
Love your collection of recipes! I’m sure I’ll have plenty of leftovers to try some of these out. Thanks for gathering these all together Erlene and including ours.
Doug
Thanks Dan for visiting and your wonderful recipe 🙂
Genius!! Just awesome linky here. Thanks for taking the time to start this and sharing it.
Hope it helps you use up some leftovers & thanks for sharing.
These are gorgeous lists! Thank you for the inspiration. Now I’m hungry!
So many great recipes and not enough leftovers…lol. These make me hungry too.