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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“I don’t do leftovers” can be a preference the same way “I don’t recycle” is a preference. You’re free to feel that way but we’re free to express our disapproval because it’s wasteful. These are the same people who buy a new water bottle every time because reusable bottles are “yucky.”

I also am just not getting how everyone can taste the difference in something that has been reheated. We eat a lot of soup and pasta dishes that taste identical the next day. Other things like pizza or fried foods taste great reheated in a toaster oven. [/quote]

Not recycling is wasteful.  Just cooking what you plan to eat is not wasteful.  If you cook large quantities of food, and then throw it away, of course that's wasteful, but it doesn't have to be.

I'm not much of a cook, the things i make are simple and fast.  So, it's not a big deal to prepare the right quantity of food every night.  [/quote]

Do you have kids?  How do you know how much everyone will eat in a given night.  I have two teenagers and quantities are not always consistent.  Sometimes 1 burger sometime 2...occasionally 3!  :-)[/quote]

I have one kid.  For something like burgers or scrambled eggs, I'd ask him "One patty or two?"  or "How hungry are you, how many eggs do you want?"  But I'd ask before I started cooking.  If he guessed wrong, and asked for 3 and ate 2, I'd probably give it to the dog (food that's been on someone's plate wouldn't go back in the fridge).  If he asked for 2 and then realized he wanted 4, then I'd get up and cook some more (or I would have, he's old enough now that he'd do it himself).  It doesn't take long to scramble another egg, or pan fry another piece of tilapia.

For other things, like a steak or a piece of salmon then I make what there is, and he generally eats it.  There's always some component to the meal that it's easy to add more of without it being a leftover exactly.  So, I might have a loaf of nice bread, and I'm serving it on the side, and he can go back and get more slices.  Or we're having fresh fruit as a side, and he'll go and grab another banana or apple.  If he's really hungry and the main dish is gone, he'll make a sandwich, or add a handful of baby carrots and a scoop of hummus to his plate.

Like I said, this is pretty much based on the fact that I'm not much of a cook.  If I was starting to make dinner hours in advance and using lots of complicated ingredients, it would be much more difficult to judge how much to make.  [/quote]

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