Food for Days – Smart Cooking with Base Dishes
Why start from scratch every time when you can make multiple meals with one clever base recipe? Here, you’ll find ideas for creating several dishes from a single base, saving time while still enjoying diverse, delicious meals. Less effort, more flavor – and you can get creative with leftovers!
Cook Once, Enjoy Multiple Times – The Concept
The idea behind “Food for Days” is simple: you prepare a base dish once – like a tomato sauce – and turn the leftovers into different, tasty meals. This way, you save time and still get variety in your meals!
Example:
Pasta – Just pour the sauce over the pasta, and you’re done!
Tomato Sauce as a Base for:
Piccata Milanese – Add some meat and the sauce for a classic dish.
Pizza – Top your dough with tomato sauce, cheese, and your favorite toppings.
Smart Cooking – For a Stress-Free Everyday
With these clever base dishes, you can plan ahead for several days and still enjoy variety. Less stress, more enjoyment – and you’ll always have something delicious on hand!
love Sabrina 💛
Tomato Sauce
Tomato sauce is a classic family staple like sauce bolognese.
We always make a big batch of it and then I freeze most of it in portions. My daughter used to call it the square sauce… But have you ever thought about using your tomato sauce as a pizza base? Why not? I have to puree the Tomato sauce as my kids don’t like pieces in their tomato sauce so it works perfect as a base for pizza.
And have you ever heard of Piccata Milanese? Its veal coated in an egg and parmesan crust and absolutely delicious. I make mine with chicken and I am pretty sure you will love it too!
Tomato Sauce- a family favourite!
Pizza- every families favourite dinner!
Piccata Milanese- an Italian classic
Tafelspitz
A Tafelspitz is one of those classic meals which are fantastic for Food for days. Serve the first day a Tafelspitz with potatoes and an apple horseradish Béchamel, next an Asian inspired Salad with Tafelspitz and last a heart-warming German stew, a Gaisburger Marsch.
Apart from the beef, the broth is really what makes this dish so amazing. I always freeze my leftover broth for a homemade risotto or just for kinda pimping my sauces and other meals.
Asian salad with Tafelspitz
Tafelspitz- boiled beef, which is so good!
Swabian Gaisburger Marsch
Sheet pan chicken
There are not many recipes which always work straight away. A sheet pan chicken is definitely one of it. You simply marinate the chicken and put it in the oven. That’s it. And you can straight away make more of it, so you have some leftovers for a chicken sandwich or just a quick salad. Love my food for days!
Super Easy Chicken Sandwich
Mixed Salad with Vegetables and Chicken
Sheet Pan Chicken
Spätzle
Spätzle is the German equivalent to comfort food. They are perfect on any rainy, windy day. Believe me. But they are also extremely versatile and therefore ideal for food for days! One day you can make Kässpätzle (the German version of Mac and Cheese), and with your leftover Spätzle you can simply make a hearty lentil stew (saure Linsen) and serve with some Spätzle.
Saddle of deer with Spätzle and Brussel Sprouts
Sour lentils with Spätzle- a classic Swabian meal
German Kässpätzle- Swabian comfort food at its best
Swabian Spaetzle
Swabian Gaisburger Marsch
Chili con carne
A chili con carne is the perfect crowd pleaser! I think I have seen it at most home parties, and they are absolutely perfect for it! I also like a good spicy chilli con carne on any couch day- or when I need a pick me up!
Why is a chilli a good fit for food for days? If you have leftovers, you can always fill some Tacos with it. Where you can also use all kind of veggies and salad which won’t survive a day longer in the fridge.
Or maybe some Nachos? That would be my kind of idea for a movie night (well with a beer of course) 🙂 ! Try it!
Tacos with Chili con Carne
Nachos topped with chili and cheddar
Chili con Carne
Sauce Bolognese
This is a perfect idea for food for days- and who does not love a sauce bolognese?
Exactly, it is everyones favorite! You can start with making the sauce, we like to call it Bolo, and make double the amount straight away. After serving the spaghetti bolognese, you can either freeze the sauce (only) or you can store the remaining sauce in the fridge for the next day. Then you can amaze your family with either a homemade Lasagna or maybe some delicious Rigatoni al Forno? They are both prepared in an instant, as you already have your key ingredient, the sauce bolognese! And that’s food for days!
Lasagne al Forno
Rigatoni al Forno
Bolognese my style
Asian marinated Salmon
Salmon is currently my favourite fish. I love to marinate it with soy sauce, ginger, and garlic and just pan fry some veggies and serve with some cooked rice with it.
And the best part is the next day I will make my Salmon bowl- if that is not perfect for food for days then I don’t know!
Salmon Asia Style-simple, quick and good!
