The best dinners are those that not only are delicious in their own right, but that also leave ample leftovers that can be easily reworked into an equally delicious lunch the next day.

As the father of a voracious 7-year-old boy – and as a father who packs said voracious boy’s school lunch every day – I’ve become a pro at these dinner-lunch combos. Any day I can cook once and feed my kid twice is a very good day. The trick, however, is to make sure the lunches made from leftovers are fresh and don’t, well, taste like leftovers.

But this doesn’t require a lot of work. A bit of imagination will take you far when it comes to reworking leftovers.