Ways to stretch takeout

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Anonymous wrote:Buy chipotle bowl but make tacos at home with it.

I can make 8-10 tacos

Wow! Good idea

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Stretching takeout? How poor are you? I've never heard of anyone doing this before.

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Anonymous wrote:Stretching takeout? How poor are you? I've never heard of anyone doing this before.

You are a terrible person who lacks empathy. These are terrific ideas and I’m so glad OP posted the question. I will definitely be using many of them

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Anonymous wrote:Stretching takeout? How poor are you? I've never heard of anyone doing this before.

You are a terrible person who lacks empathy. These are terrific ideas and I’m so glad OP posted the question. I will definitely be using many of them

I'd bet that pp is a spoiled brat of a 15 year old who's such a lazy incompetent bum that they've never even done their own laundry or walked a neighbor's dog for some cash. Ignore the stupid child brat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Didn’t discover this trying to stretch but I will mix jasmine or sticky rice into the mu shu chicken filling and add some soy sauce. My daughter eats all the mu shu pancakes so I added rice once and it was really good. Can easily double the amount you get.

If you don’t mind boiling water, you can make a bunch of lo mein noodles and then mix in your Chinese food. Flat rice noodles for Thai.

Not take out, but a really easy I don’t want to cook a meal is a crunchy chicken salad. I buy those bigs of just bare chicken nuggets or tenders from Costco. You just throw them in the oven. When done I add them to a bag of salad mix. Southwest, avocado ranch or Asian all work really well.

Oddly in our area rice is an extra charge so we usually just make it at home but if your entrees come with the big boxes of rice and you have leftover you can make fried rice or a chicken/cheese rice dish or ground beef or chicken with whatever seasoning or sauce you have and mix the rice in. I like ground pork, ginger, Thai chili oil with rice mixed into it. DH like ground beef, bulgogi sauce and rice mixed in.

Rice is not cheap to buy for individuals or restaurants.
Rice is filling and calorie-dense so no reason retailers or restaurants will "give it away"--it has value, so to speak

[Anonymous]

Make a vegetable. Sometimes I just chuck a mix of frozen vegetables into a pan with butter.

Make a pot of rice (or heat frozen).

Add a protein (chopped tofu, frozen fish, sliced sausage, whatever you have).

Serve with bread.

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The rice thing is funny. Some places give you way too much and others give you way too little! For the places that give way too much, I make fried rice with frozen vegetables and scrabbled egg the next night—I find the only really key ingredients for that are garlic and scallions.

When we order from uncle Julio’s, I always order extra refried beans and sometimes the extra rice — their refried beans are great and a cheap add on, so you can make another whole dinner with bean/rice bowls or bean tacos (I like to add a fried egg and some cheese). Basically always check the sides—sometimes they are really cheap and can make a great second meal.

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Depending on what it is: lettuce, pasta, rice.

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Anonymous wrote:Stretching takeout? How poor are you? I've never heard of anyone doing this before.

You are a terrible person who lacks empathy. These are terrific ideas and I’m so glad OP posted the question. I will definitely be using many of them

This is a brilliant idea even if you are richie rich!
Especially for asian sauces which are very complex, hard to make at home and probably not super healthy in terms of sodium, it's a very good idea to put that dense sauce on lots of additional rice and vegetables. Better for the heart, waistline AND wallet!

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I keep soba noodles on hand for a fast base for Chinese/Thai leftovers. Angel hair pasta is also super fast to cook once water is boiled

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Anonymous wrote:We get thai curry or any asian stir fry entree and make extra jasmine rice at home, either on the stove or frozen microwave packs. The restaurants are often sooo stingy with rice, and for what? There's just two of us and we can get always at least two meals out of one and usually one or more servings of leftovers the next day.

There is usually a lot of extra sauce leftover so I add meat and veggies to the sauce a make another meal out of it with more rice.

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We just order several entrees and make our own salad, veggies and rice. This stretches the total order cost into two or more meals.

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My kids love ramen. We get spicy ramen broth, and since it's very salty, we don't finish it. I use up the broth for stew the following day (beef cubes, potatoes, carrots, celery, turnip, usually). We also don't have one ramen per person, even though we're all adults and teens. We add baby spinach or baby kale, and share.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stretching takeout? How poor are you? I've never heard of anyone doing this before.

You are a terrible person who lacks empathy. These are terrific ideas and I’m so glad OP posted the question. I will definitely be using many of them

It's also a good idea to stretch it out with veges or salad, because there are way too many calories in take out. It's good for you to eat only half of it.

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Leftovers from Tex-Mex are a favorite. Always take home the rice, bean, chips and salsa, fajita veggies, we leave nothing. Order an extra side of tortillas and use the leftovers for nachos, rice, bean and cheese burritos…one meal easily becomes two three and sometimes four depending on how much you eat.