I do this all the time! Pasta is great to use to combine leftovers. I often use leftover pureed vegetable soup as a pasta sauce, and top with parmesan. Another alternative is to use eggs as a base to combine varied items -- for example, leftover vegetables and beans, sauteed with salt and pepper and whatever herbs and spices you like, topped with a poached egg.

I am far more likely than my husband to enjoy combine leftovers. I tend to make combo meals for myself at lunch while he eats at work.

Grains soup/sauce or greens meat/protein are good combinations. Another favorite is starch egg crumbs to make pan fried cakes. Mashed potatos, risotto, quinoa, rice all work well for cakes.

Mmmm...typing this is making me wish I had more leftovers to play with for today's lunch!

Yes, similar to the previous poster, I am much more likely to do this than my husband is. Part of it has to do with the fact that I hate to waste food so oftentimes, I "take one for the team".

Living by myself and cooking for one means I generally have a lot of leftovers and I'm always trying to reinvent them. Last night I made pizza with some leftover squash puree as the sauce, it was incredible!

I have depending on what's in the fridge and needs to be used up. Like TeaGranny, I live by myself and eat a lot of leftovers. I try to cook a lot of simple, plain foods that can be combined with other foods easily (e.g. grilled chicken breast, steak, beans, pasta, rice, quinoa, etc.)

I want to echo others' experiences that I am more likely than my husband to do this. I pack his dinner the two days a week is goes from work to class, and sometimes he's unimpressed with what I put together. I respond that sometimes (but only sometimes :) eating isn't about making the best tasting food but about using what you have on hand to nourish your body!

I certainly do work in leftover bits of this and that into the next larger dish (usually pasta--that's the most versatile base), but I rarely take two separate leftover dishes and combine them.

In general, I like the bountiful feeling of having several different things on a plate, so I'd rather reheat two things and enjoy them as they are. Nothing bums me out more than taking two perfectly delicious things and making them into something nasty by accident.

I don't usually do this, but once found myself with just a little celery-rice soup (a vegetarian version of Marcella Hazan's sedano e riso recipe) and a little white-bean kale soup. The mix was AWESOME. Awesome enough that I try to make these soups in the same week and combine the leftovers again.

The problem with combining left over dishes for me is that I usually only have one. I tend more toward using the left overs from the night before immediately the next day, so multiple dishes don't tend to accumulate. That said, I do try to combine the random ingredients that accumulate in the fridge in untraditional ways, like tomato soup macaroni and cheese where I use the soup as a base instead of milk (which, incidentally, works much better than yogurt, at least for cheddar).

One of the later posts today is about roasted veggies. I often roast them on the grill and the leftovers make wonderful romesco-type sauces. Blend them with garlic and oil. Water or wine to a sauce-like consistency and use this as a topping for other leftovers, usually pasta.

my favorite things to do is to make something that can be made into a whole other meal the next night... for instance i will make

roast beef and roasted veggies can be made into roast beef sandwiches (the veggies can be made into a great paste for on the sandwiches) or even beef fajitas veggies sliced to go up inside too

slow cooked pork shoulder and cole slaw can be made into bbq pulled pork sandwiches or pork enchiladas

spagetti sauce can be made into chilli, sloppy joes, hamburger soup... the possibilities with this one are endless

a roasted chicken can be made into chicken salad sandwiches, pulled chicken tacos (hard or soft) or my fave chicken tortilla soup

i always try to have another meal thought up for the left overs even as i am making the original meal because its just me, my husband and our one year old son but most recipes are made up for 4 people so we often have leftovers and to me they are more apealing when you make them into an entirely different meal

I am currently trying to figure out what on earth to do with leftover scrambled eggs with arugula. I put them in a container with potatoes from the same breakfast. Any ideas?

Renai Marie:
What about a burrito, with beans and salsa and avocado? Or a cheese quesadilla with those leftover eggs? Or even pizza?

When I make rice or quinoa to go with a meal, I purposefully make extra so that I can combine the leftover grains with whatever leftover veggies are hanging around. This makes the perfect lunch time salad box.