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[quote=Anonymous]I grew up in an UMC household that didn't do left overs.

My mother would plan out what we'd eat for the week, and that's how much food there was.  So, if there were 5 of us, and she wanted to serve chicken, she'd buy a large pack of chicken thighs and portion it out into bags of 5 chicken thighs, cook one and put the rest in the freezer.  If the plan was to have apples with our school lunch on Tuesday and Thursday, she'd buy 6 apples, one for each kid each day.    There were no seconds, no snacks other than one planned snack after school, and no left overs.

By the time we were teens my siblings and I were hungry all the time, because my mother's idea of portions didn't match what we actually needed.  We figured out plans to eat a friends houses, and got jobs really early so we could buy our own food.

I can remember going to people's houses and they'd have seconds, even if it was just a bowl of broccoli passed around the table, and it seemed so luxurious.

One thing you can't say about my mother's system is that it was wasteful.  [/quote]

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