Turkey sandwich - This one is a given, but it is one of my favorites. Some people like their sandwich with mayonnaise and onions.  I like mine with mustard on white bread.

Turkey salad - This is another family favorite.  I chop up some turkey, add some mayo, diced dill pickles, salt, and pepper, and it’s as good as chicken salad.  I also like to make ham salad.

Turkey and rice - Cook rice according to package directions, add desired seasonings.  Throw in some chopped turkey and some vegetables.  You might also like to make a gravy.

Turkey wraps - Add some turkey, cheese, and fresh vegetables to a lettuce slice or tortilla.

Turkey soup - There are many varieties of turkey soup. You could make a cream based soup or a Mexican style soup.  Use your favorite chicken soup recipe using turkey instead of chicken.

Other sources for recipes:

AllRecipes.com – Some ideas include Turkey a la King, turkey enchiladas, turkey pot pie, turkey tetrazzini, and more.
Recipe Goldmine
National Turkey Federation
Healthy Eating Made Easy

What are your favorite ways to use leftover turkey?

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1st turkey – I know this one looks a little funny, but it was done by my daughter when she was only 16 months old.  We made our own patterns for this one.  We just drew the turkey body, cut out some feathers, and that little red gobbler thing under the turkey’s chin.  What is that thing called anyway?

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2nd turkey – This one is made by tracing the child’s feet for the turkey body.  You just trace their foot once onto brown construction paper, double the paper and cut it out so that you’ll have two feet.  Then you trace their hand onto different colors of construction paper.  I double those up too so that I only have to cut out four hands.

Last picture – This pumpkin patch was done using the children’s hands.  You put orange paint on their knuckles and press their knuckles down on the paper.  Then you use their pointer finger for the pumpkin stem.  After it dried, I added hand drawn vines.

Sorry I don’t post as many children’s activities as I used to.  My children’s activities are now posted at my other website, Little Fun; Little Learning. 

Enjoy!

P.S.  Please include links to your children’s craft below.  Or you can write out the instructions in the comments.  I’m always looking for new activities.

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The Sili Sling is a silicone lifter for turkey, roasts and fish. The large surface is ideal for lifting large poultry and roasts – holds up to an 18 lb. turkey. Also works well for delicate foods such as fish that often break apart during cooking. The Sili Sling stays in the oven while you cook. It is heat resistant to 600°F. The silicone turkey lifter will always retain its shape and will not stain or absorb odors. The Sili Sling is easy to clean, as it is dishwasher safe.

Click on the picture below to see more about this time saving gadget.

Thanks to fabulousfoods.com for the tip.

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After Thanksgiving and Christmas, I always look forward to turkey and mustard sandwiches.  I also enjoy making turkey salad.  I just chop up the turkey and add mayo and dill relish, just like I would when making chicken salad.  Another way to use the turkey is to make a turkey casserole.  Just use a chicken casserole recipe, but substitute the chicken for turkey.  At Thanksgiving I froze some leftover turkey.  I just put some of the turkey into freezer bags and added some of the turkey juice on the meat so that it didn’t dry out. 

There are many recipes out there for using the turkey that you have left from your Christmas meal.  I did a google search for turkey leftovers and many sites popped up.  Here is one that I found that lists some different recipes, as well as some other sites.  The picture shown above is a turkey sandwich recipe from Kraftfoods.com.

So tell me, what do you do with your leftover turkey?  Please share your tips and secrets with us.  We want to be frugal by not wasting good food.

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• Turkey and Noodle soup.  Just like chicken, just with a different bird
• Barbeque Turkey.  Shred it and add barbeque sauce.  YUM!!!
• Turkey pot pie.  There is a fabulously easy recipe on the back of the bisquick box.  My family loves it!

Keep this in mind when you think about all the turkey to come.  UUGGHH!!  More turkey

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I rinsed the turkey and made sure I got the giblets out of the bird before I brushed it with butter and stuck it in the oven. I checked it after 2 hrs and noticed that I evidently didn’t empty the cavity so I tried to get the bag out with a fork. Instead, I just pulled the bag off the turkey neck that I didn’t even know was still in there. I was disgusted but had to laugh. Then I never would get it to temperature. But it had been in the oven an hr longer than recommended so I figured that it would be ok. After all, they had to reheat it anyway. So there was the first one done.

The next one was a larger turkey so I planned on getting up around 3:30 am and get it in the oven so that it would be ready to take tot the church this morning. So I preheated the oven and went to get the turkey ready to put in the oven. Then it happened.

My oven went out. I heard a pop and the oven wouldn’t work. I checked the breaker box and thought that all the breakers were on so I assumed that the oven was non-functioning. I packed everything up and headed to the church to use their oven at 4 AM. On the way out of the house, I spilled the juice from the first turkey that was done all over the kitchen floor. I could tell that my morning was going to be not so nice. But at least I had a house to cook in and a church to volunteer at. Many thanks have gone up on this day for the follies to come.

I got to the church and got ready to prepare the turkey. I actually got everything out of the cavity this time. I learned that lesson. So I put the turkey in the oven but I couldn’t leave the church. It would just be my luck to leave and set the church on fire. So I pulled up some chairs and tried to sleep in the kitchen at the church. Not much sleep occurred from 4:30 to 6:30, needless to say. The organizer of the event came in at 6:30 and I tried not to scare him but I did. He never expected anyone to be sleeping in the church kitchen at 6:30 in the morning.

The comedy of errors this morning was too funny. Turns out, I missed the tripped breaker and could have just flipped a breaker, put he turkey in the oven and gone back to bed. Why do these things always happen to me?!?!?!?!

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