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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Speaking as a cancer survivor, life is too damn short and fragile to eat leftovers. If you knew you were going to die in December, would you eat leftovers? Of course not. Eat well, every meal — because you never know.[/quote]

I don't understand why you view leftovers as not eating well. I'm not eating leftover KFC. I'm eating the leftovers or delicious meals made at home or in nicer restaurants from fresh, high quality ingredients. Even when we have leftover pizza, it's the leftovers of really good pizza (dough made from scratch, homemade sauce, top notch ingredients).

I eat leftovers specifically so I can avoid eating mediocre food, while also sparing me the trouble of cooking or going to a restaurant every single night.[/quote]

+1.  And when I meal plan, I often consider how I can reuse leftovers.  For example, the leftovers from a bean skillet can form part of a quesadilla filling;homemade meat sauce from a pasta dish becomes the meat layer of  lasagna.  I like almost all of my family's meals to be homemade and I couldn't do that without leveraging leftovers.[/quote]

Exactly.

When people say they "don't do leftovers" I assume that means they don't actually cook much. I don't know a single good cook who doesn't utilize leftovers. My spouse and I both love to cook and half our freezer is dedicated to meal components that we doubled up at some point so we could pull them out and incorporate them into another meal. If I'm going to spend hours making a a sauce from scratch, I'm not making just four servings and I'm definitely not throwing the rest away. That's psychotic.

The no leftovers people are doing take out a lot, IME. If you like pissing money away and eating food loaded with salt and butter, enjoy I guess. I want to eat better than that.[/quote]

I think we can distinguish “reusing component” leftovers from “reheating lasagne for several days” leftovers.

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Made lasagna last Sunday.  Ate it on Tuesday and gave another portion frozen.  Reheated fine un the GASP microwave.[/quote]

That sounds disgusting.[/quote]

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Why?[/quote]

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