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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you guys not meal prep?  I make my lunches for the week ahead on Sunday.  It's way better for your health.[/quote]

How is that way better?  Wouldn’t the relative healthiness of your lunch depend on what you made?

Meal prep isn’t leftovers though.[/quote]

How is it any different from leftovers? Seriously. That makes no sense. If you make extra food and then put it in a  container-you do the exact same thing for meal prep. There is no difference. [/quote]

Leftovers are when you make something, or order, serve it, and then put back what doesn’t get eaten and serve it another time.

If I cook something with the intention of using it a different day, that’s different.  Tomorrow is the start of school, so I roasted 2 turkey breasts.  I sliced them froze most of it in sandwich size portions, and left a couple portions in the fridge for lunches this week.

I also made a bunch of pesto and froze it in the tiny souper cubes.  When we have pasta later in the week, I will pull out some pesto make a quick pasta salad and stick it in lunchboxes.

I might also make some soup or pasta sauce and freeze portions.  Or two trays of enchiladas, one to cook today and one for the freezer.  Or cook a double portion of rice and freeze one so I can make fried rice quickly on a busy day.  Or make enough salad dressing to last a week.

None of those are leftovers.  That’s meal prep.

If I make too much fried rice, on purpose or by accident and serve it again tomorrow, or put it in lunch boxes.  That’s leftovers.

I do both, but they are different things.  Generally, in my house leftovers might go in the lunchboxes, or might be something a kid pulls out for snack or second dinner after sports, but the meal that we gather around might have come from the freezer, or have an ingredient I prepped, but it won’t be leftovers from yesterday.  
 
That’s just how we like it.  I’m not 70.  I’m not wasting food.  [/quote]

These ARE leftovers according to people who think a fresh hot meal every day is the only acceptable option. It’s not just what is scraped off of plates.[/quote]

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