s/o Leftovers
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Anonymous
If you have enough money to burn on food you do not eat, then you are rich. |
Anonymous
| I love left overs! I rely on them to get us through the week. I don't have time to cook a whole meal every night. It's great! |
Anonymous
| Leftovers make a much tastier and more healthful lunch than what I can buy close to my office. |
Anonymous
+1 If the food is really good, sometimes there aren't leftovers! But we set leftovers aside for lunch the next day. |
Anonymous
NP. No, doesn't mean they are rich, means they are wasteful. They could be rich or poor. A co-worker of mine gets food stamps and buys lunch with her own money because she doesn't like to eat leftovers. |
Anonymous
| I always package leftovers with the best of intentions for using them to make lunch and subsequent dinners. Sometimes I follow through. Other times they sit in the fridge for a week, and finally get thrown out when: a) it's trash day, b) it's grocery shopping day and I need the fridge space, or c) I run out of leftover containers and decide that I need to wash some to use for the next night's leftovers (which I'm sure will be eaten within a day or two). |
Anonymous
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I try to avoid having leftovers. My husband refuses to eat them (it's a mental thing). I would be happy to eat them for lunch, but I have yet to find a reliable way to transport them via Metro that doesn't result in liquid leaking out all over the inside of my bag.
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Anonymous
Poor people do not waste scarce resources. |
Anonymous
| My husband will only eat certain leftovers. He grew up poor, so I think he was forced to eat some pretty nasty leftovers growing up. I eat them for lunch, but sometimes it here is just too much or some recipe wasn't very good and we eventually throw it out. I try to plan so we do not have so many leftovers, but it is hard to gauge what my DH and son will eat. Sometimes a pot full of chili is almost eaten in one meal and other times it lasts a week. I have started avoiding recipes that are too large and cannot be easily cut in half (or frozen). |
Anonymous
| I seriously don't understand, why don't people not want to eat leftovers????? Please someone explain it to me! |
Anonymous
if i can reheat them properly at home, fine. meat or pasta reheated in the office microwave? blech. the texture is gross. |
Anonymous
| I used to hate leftover after a childhood of poverty and marriage to a man who would eat food that was horribly old. Post-divorce, I largely cooked to avoid leftovers, but now I've learned how to plan out meals so that leftovers are eaten the next day and aren't obviously leftovers. |
Anonymous
| Another all-of-the-above poster here. DH won't pack lunch but sometimes he will eat the leftovers for breakfast or if he gets home before I do and is hungry (we usually cook together). I will take some leftovers to work - usually vegetable-based or something that can be eaten cold like fried chicken. I really don't care for reheated meat so if DH doesn't eat those, they get thrown out. Most nights we don't have too many leftovers though. |
Anonymous
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I don't like most left overs, so I don't make leftovers.
Sometimes I will make a large portion of something (e.g. a big pot of soup or a large container of pasta salad) and portion it out for lunch multiple days, but generally when I cook I cook 1 day's worth, but I think of that as "cooking ahead" rather than a meal with leftovers. But generally, I just adjust the recipe to serve exactly the number of people in our family, bring everything to the table and everything gets eaten. |