Saving tiny amounts of leftovers

[Anonymous]

Does anyone in your life insist on wrapping up tiny amounts of leftovers and storing them in the fridge where they are forgotten and rot?

For example, half a piece of cornbread, bagging up maybe 3-4 berries that didn’t get eaten from a bag, half a banana, barely three or four tortillas from nachos, a quarter piece of pizza?

[Anonymous]

DH does this and it's so wasteful!
Drives me crazy

[Anonymous]

We eat those things.

[Anonymous]

I save them. I eat them.

[Anonymous]

Yes. I hand them a zip loc and tell them to put it into the freezer. If we use it, good. If not, we'll just toss the baggies later. They have a deep feeling against "waste" probably caused by their childhood. I don't fight it. Just try not to inconvenience me too much.

On the plus side, we have used a few of these freezer items.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I save them. I eat them.

+1

And i end up combining them or cimulative grab n go for my lunches, snacks on the go, small snack pre-dinner, or whatever.

We rarely let food good to waste.

[Anonymous]

I do this. Putting stuff in the fridge for 4 days makes me feel better about throwing it away.

[Anonymous]

I have teen age boys. They would just finish up all those things. I am on top of the fridge so nothing gets left to rot but if there were 2 chips we would not keep them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I save them. I eat them.

Same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do this. Putting stuff in the fridge for 4 days makes me feel better about throwing it away.

I know it makes no sense, but same here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I save them. I eat them.

Same.

Same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I save them. I eat them.

+1 Ate an awkward half slice of pizza for dinner last night when I didn’t really want anything but also didn’t want to wake up with a miserable low blood sugar headache.

[Anonymous]

My husband. He’s a hoarder. It’s stressful. I can’t receive guests unless they really love us.

[Anonymous]

My MIL does thus, but she only eats a few bites of food at a tumr. I've seen her eat 2 tablespoons of rice for lunch. We save everything when she's visiting.

Generally, I don't bother saving something that's not enough food for a person with a normal appetite. I cannot make a meal out of a scrap of pizza, 3 chips and 2 green beans.

[Anonymous]

My husband does this.

I deal with it by creating a leftovers/going-bad-soon section in our fridge where all these bits and stuff go.

Then when packing lunches I try to incorporate as much as possible from the leftover section. But also the daily lunch packing gives me a reason to review the leftover section to throw out anything that has taken a turn for the worse.