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Fill your ice cube tray with something other than water

5 ingredients with which you can fill your ice cube tray.

1. Cookie dough
If you're making your own cookies, it's too tempting to eat them all in one sitting. Next time you can keep the dough in an ice cube tray. When you feel like a cookie, you can remove one or more balls of dough and bake a cookie.

2. Pureed vegetables
Pure mashed vegetables aren't just for babies. Freeze some cubes and use them in smoothies or pasta sauce.

3. Wine
Pour the remaining layer of wine from the bottle into an ice cube tray. Handy for in the pasta sauce, or to get a lukewarm wine up to temperature with a cold wine ice cube.

4. Fruits
You can thaw pureed or regular fruit and use it in your smoothie or yogurt.

5. Sauce
You can freeze the leftover pasta sauce or homemade pesto in small portions in an ice cube tray.