63 Recipes to Use Up Your Thanksgiving Leftovers (2024)

By Janine 16 Comments

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What will you do with those Thanksgiving Leftovers now?

Well we made it to the other side. That’s right, another Thanksgiving is in the books today.

But still Thanksgiving dinner is the meal that keeps on giving. See it seems like every year there are more leftovers than the year before! Usually, you end up throwing away more than half of it. Why? Because you can’t finish them before they go bad.

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If you are feeling overwhelmed by your fridge full of leftovers, then here are 63 recipes to make to use up your Thanksgiving leftovers.

63 Recipes to Use Up Your Thanksgiving Leftovers

Do you have Thanksgiving leftovers in your fridge now?

What will you do with all those Thanksgiving leftovers?

Now tell me in the comments…

About Janine

Janine is a published author of the books, The Mother of All Meltdowns and Only Trollops Shave Above the Knee. She has been featured on The Huffington Post, Mamapedia, Today Parenting Team and SheKnows. She also runs her own graphic design company at J9 Designs.

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Diane Hill Roark says
November 24, 2017 at 9:43 am

Janine,
I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I also hope your baby girl had a great birthday and lots of fun a Disney. Thank you for sharing all these fantastic Thanksgiving leftover ideas. YUM!
Blessings,
Diane
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- Janine says
  November 24, 2017 at 9:54 am
  
  Aw, thanks Diane and hope you and your family had a a wonderful Thanksgiving, too!!! 🙂
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AnnMarie John says
November 24, 2017 at 10:34 am

I hope you and the family had an amazing Thanksgiving. I had no idea there were so many uses for my Thanksgiving leftovers. I may just have to do a couple of them. Thank you.
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- Janine says
  November 24, 2017 at 11:14 am
  
  Aw, you are so welcome and hope you and your family also had a wonderful Thanksgiving, AnnMarie 🙂
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William Holland says
November 24, 2017 at 10:56 am

Nothing complicated when I eat leftovers. Toss them on a plate, heat them in the microwave, and shove my face into the pile. 🙂 I hope you had a terrific holiday. We have another one tomorrow with the second half of the family. Bring on the eats!!!!!
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- Janine says
  November 24, 2017 at 11:15 am
  
  Well, Happy 2nd Thanksgiving tomorrow and wishing you a wonderful feast tomorrow now, too!! 🙂
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J. Ivy Boyter says
November 24, 2017 at 12:17 pm

In years past, I probably could have used these! Now, I do Thanksgiving geared toward my food allergies and I plan leftovers to take to my in-laws house because they haven’t been able to figure out how to accommodate … I love having a plate of real Thanksgiving to take so as not to be left out LOL
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- Janine says
  November 24, 2017 at 12:38 pm
  
  Totally get it and makes total sense to me. thanks for sharing with me, too 😉
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Aunt Gloria says
November 24, 2017 at 11:00 pm

I’d love to try some of these recipes…..without any leftovers. I’ll just start from scratch. So glad we had Thanksgiving together. It was very special….and delicious! xxoo
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- Janine says
  November 24, 2017 at 11:01 pm
  
  Aw, I couldn’t agree more and looking forward to Christmas now, too together xoxo 😉
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Jen says
November 25, 2017 at 7:14 am

There were no turkey leftovers on Thursday at our family function 🙁 So today I am making another turkey and I will definitely need these then!
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- Janine says
  November 25, 2017 at 8:48 am
  
  Man, I wish I could say there were no leftovers, but alas there were. But also love you were making another turkey only a day later 😉
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Tamara says
November 27, 2017 at 10:26 pm

You had me at “mashed potato balls.” We still have leftovers if you can believe that! Actually, I bet you can believe it just fine.
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- Janine says
  November 28, 2017 at 6:48 am
  
  I am with you on those mashed potato balls. And you had me giggling at that actually though, too 🙂
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Christine Carter says
November 29, 2017 at 9:26 am

Well, I’m late for this – as I JUST threw out the remains of the turkey. Darnit!
BUT- these recipes look amazing, so I’m going to check them out to use with CHICKEN! 🙂
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- Janine says
  November 29, 2017 at 9:33 am
  
  Chris, chicken would totally work, too 😉
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