If you are one of those people who plan their meal on the go, such as day by day or even meal by meal, then you would probably be familiar with the strategy of cooking more the day or meal before, intentionally having it leftover for some other dish which happened to have the leftover as part of the total ingredient.  

This strategy is what we called, “intentional leftovers”, we use it as a meal plan starter.

So next time when you cook some rice for dinner, cook extra! This could be your next meal plan start for a fried rice (save time to wash and cook the rice again as the prerequisite, not to mention to chill it before it can be stir fried to avoid lumpiness).