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Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the new corner office. The podcast where we share strategies for thriving in the new world of work

where location and hours are more flexible than in the past. Today's tip is to learn to love leftovers. When you are working in an office you may have gone out for lunch every day.

You may have thought that packing leftovers for lunch was unexciting or even unappetizing. If you're working from home now let me encourage you to rethink this assumption.

As a veteran remote worker I'm here to tell you that leftovers are great and if you've been eating turkey sandwiches every day for the last eight weeks you may be ready to believe me.

Here are some reasons to love leftovers. First dinner fair tends to be harder than standard lunch fair. So if you're effectively eating dinner a second time for lunch you're going to wind up more satisfied.

You may be less likely to graze on cookies or chips. Second something that requires a fork and knife is more likely to force you to take a real break which is a good thing.

A real break makes your mind sharper for afternoon work so you won't waste time reading the same document over and over. I mean unless you're having the equivalent of Thanksgiving dinner as your leftovers most normal dinners won't put you in a food coma.

Third since dinner is the meal most likely to feature vegetables eating leftovers for lunch means that now two meals feature vegetables each day.

Have free breakfast and fruit for a snack and you are winning at the nutritional game. Fourth preparing leftovers tends to take less time than making a sandwich.

Just throw the leftovers on a plate, heat them up in the microwave and you're ready to go. And finally eating leftovers means you probably waste less food. A good thing when no one wants to go to the grocery store more often than necessary.

So if you're ready to quit the turkey sandwiches here's how to build a leftovers habit. If you don't already own some order a handful of plastic storage containers then suss out how often you normally cook.

You probably aren't going to increase this number significantly. So for many people cooking for dinners a week which includes Saturdays and Sundays might be fine.

For at least some of these choose from options that tend to naturally make leftovers. A beef or pork roast, roast chicken, casseroles, lasagna, enchiladas or a pot of hearty soup.

A big batch of roasted veggies can live for days and combine with many things as can a big batch of rice or beans. Make a little more than your family needs for any given meal. Don't plate everything.

People can serve themselves from central bowls or from pots on the stove since you probably won't rescue food from individual plates. Ideally you can combine leftovers from multiple meals in tasty ways.

For instance I've stretched leftover soup by mixing it with leftover rice. The other day my lunch consisted of steak leftover from Saturday night and Brussels sprouts leftover from Friday.

And if you get takeout or delivery multiple nights per week, well no judgement. You can also order a little bit extra there too. Many restaurant portions are so large that I tend to assume they're building the next day's lunch into the deal.

Now it's possible that some family members are more excited about leftovers than others. But that's fine. As long as some people eat the leftovers the others can make themselves peanut butter sandwiches and fruit.

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