do you always cook for two nights for family of four?

[Anonymous]

Grocery shop on Saturday.

I cook a separate dinner: Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

I don't plan on leftovers, but they are often used in lunches.

Thursday dinner is any leftovers or clean out the fridge or basic stuff like grilled cheese or pb&j.

Friday we order out or go out to eat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Grocery shop on Saturday.

I cook a separate dinner: Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

I don't plan on leftovers, but they are often used in lunches.

Thursday dinner is any leftovers or clean out the fridge or basic stuff like grilled cheese or pb&j.

Friday we order out or go out to eat.

I should add that I'm the main cook and the member of the family that likes leftovers the least. Family of 5 with three teenagers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Grocery shop on Saturday.

I cook a separate dinner: Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

I don't plan on leftovers, but they are often used in lunches.

Thursday dinner is any leftovers or clean out the fridge or basic stuff like grilled cheese or pb&j.

Friday we order out or go out to eat.

This is kind of how we are!

[Anonymous]

I sometimes cook to have an ingredient to repurpose for the next day, but we don't eat the same thing two nights in a row and I don't cook with the intention of eating something twice. We do sometimes have a "leftover night" for dinner, where everyone just picks the leftovers that they want to eat. Otherwise, leftovers are for lunches.

[Anonymous]

We do not eat leftovers. I cook Monday -Wednesday and we eat out or get takeout the other nights.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a dad who does not cook. The enjoys cooking thank goodness. But for someone to say...I don't eat leftovers is absolutely bonkers to me. Absolutely nuts. I have not respect for these entitled a-holes. Honestly, if I met one and found this out, I couldn't talk to them or anything. They must be so spoiled that they would make me want to vomit. If my wife made some massive casserole and we ate it 4 nights in a row...I'd be as grateful on the 4th night as all the other nights.

But in my house I am the one who does the cooking and I don’t want to eat the same casserole 4 nights in a row so that is not how I cook for my family.
I do not think that makes me an entitled a$$hole. We have leftovers sometimes but I do not enjoy them enough to make that a basis for our meal planning. On the other hand I am not judging those who do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We cook all our dinners at home except for eating out maybe once a month, and have gotten to the point where we won't make a recipe unless we can easily make enough to eat it for two nights in a row. With both of us working and kids in sports and such, it's just much more time efficient. Only exceptions I can think of are the very occasional nights where we have costco chicken nuggets or fresh fish fillets that are bought for that night.
But I was having a conversation with some friends yesterday and they were all surprised by this and either cook or eat out something different every night because they don't like leftovers.
What's your routine?

Always cook for 2 nights. Anything else is less efficient. And for posters who say the DH needs fresh food everyday - hope the DH is helping with the cooking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We do not eat leftovers. I cook Monday -Wednesday and we eat out or get takeout the other nights.

Leftovers are way healthier than eating out 4 days a week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a dad who does not cook. The enjoys cooking thank goodness. But for someone to say...I don't eat leftovers is absolutely bonkers to me. Absolutely nuts. I have not respect for these entitled a-holes. Honestly, if I met one and found this out, I couldn't talk to them or anything. They must be so spoiled that they would make me want to vomit. If my wife made some massive casserole and we ate it 4 nights in a row...I'd be as grateful on the 4th night as all the other nights.

+100 what an entitled a-hole. If my DH decided he didn't eat leftovers I would be deciding that I'm not cooking for him anymore.

+1 entitlement, hope those folks are definitely helping with the cooking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We try to do leftovers once a week. Any more and we’ll get bored. We eat out once a week.

I used to be like this but my tune has changed as I've gotten older. Partly I'm just a better cook so the food I make produces really tasty leftovers I look forward to. And partly I just really value a meal that requires no effort at all, not even the effort of going to grab takeout (and costs considerably less).

Tonight we're on night three of a chili I made on Sunday and while I couldn't do it another night after this, I can't tell you how nice it is to know I have a delicious meal to look forward to that will require nothing more than 2 minutes in the microwave and rinsing out a storage dish. Pure joy.

Love the nights when I can reheat some tasty dinner with some fresh rice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We cook all our dinners at home except for eating out maybe once a month, and have gotten to the point where we won't make a recipe unless we can easily make enough to eat it for two nights in a row. With both of us working and kids in sports and such, it's just much more time efficient. Only exceptions I can think of are the very occasional nights where we have costco chicken nuggets or fresh fish fillets that are bought for that night.
But I was having a conversation with some friends yesterday and they were all surprised by this and either cook or eat out something different every night because they don't like leftovers.
What's your routine?

Always cook for 2 nights. Anything else is less efficient. And for posters who say the DH needs fresh food everyday - hope the DH is helping with the cooking.

Why not just make a huge pot of stew and eat it for 4-5 nights? Or all week? Anything else is less efficient.

[Anonymous]

Sometimes I do a big batch of something and freeze it. I basically don't make a chili or pasta sauce or curry sauce that doesn't produce enough to freeze at least one meal's worth. But I don't plan to eat the same thing two nights. More likely to repurpose leftovers, or eat them for lunch, or maybe have a leftover night dinner if we have enough things accumulated.

[Anonymous]

I think it's odd that people think "cook" for 2 nights they think we eat the same thing 2 nights in a row.

For example, i have boneless chicken breast. I grilled it with 2 different marinades, or night 2 I cut it up for tacos.

I made pasta with shrimp and wine sauce but also pasta with carbonara for day 2.

Not the same thing 2 nights in a row.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it's odd that people think "cook" for 2 nights they think we eat the same thing 2 nights in a row.

For example, i have boneless chicken breast. I grilled it with 2 different marinades, or night 2 I cut it up for tacos.

I made pasta with shrimp and wine sauce but also pasta with carbonara for day 2.

Not the same thing 2 nights in a row.

OP literally says cook enough of one recipe to eat for dinner two nights in a row. I expect many people, myself included, were responding to that.

[Anonymous]

I find this only works with stews. With grilled chicken though for example, I don't see how you can make a big batch of that and eat it the second day because it will taste gamey--unless people have some trick to keep it tasting fresh?