Anonymous
08/23/2025 09:59
Subject: “We don’t do leftovers”
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
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.
+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.
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.
I think we can distinguish “reusing component” leftovers from “reheating lasagne for several days” leftovers.
Made lasagna last Sunday. Ate it on Tuesday and gave another portion frozen. Reheated fine un the GASP microwave.
It was best when it was fresh.
Anonymous
08/23/2025 06:41
Subject: “We don’t do leftovers”
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
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.
+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.
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.
I think we can distinguish “reusing component” leftovers from “reheating lasagne for several days” leftovers.
Made lasagna last Sunday. Ate it on Tuesday and gave another portion frozen. Reheated fine un the GASP microwave.
Anonymous
08/23/2025 06:37
Subject: “We don’t do leftovers”
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
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.
+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.
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.
I think we can distinguish “reusing component” leftovers from “reheating lasagne for several days” leftovers.
Oh, you’ve chosen exactly the wrong food item to make your point. Anything with tomatoes in it is better on the second day.
Anonymous
08/23/2025 04:54
Subject: “We don’t do leftovers”
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
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.
+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.
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.
I think we can distinguish “reusing component” leftovers from “reheating lasagne for several days” leftovers.
Anonymous
08/22/2025 22:50
Subject: “We don’t do leftovers”
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
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.
+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.
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.
Anonymous
08/22/2025 22:31
Subject: “We don’t do leftovers”
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
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.
+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.
Anonymous
08/22/2025 22:26
Subject: “We don’t do leftovers”
Anonymous wrote:We never have leftovers either. I don't like to bring home food when we dine out (tacky and gross) and at home we have the correct amount of food prepared, cooked and served. DH has lunch brought into his work or dines out.
Food waste is terrible for the environment and many European Michelin star restaurants are doing vegetarian only menus because that's better for the environment. Leftovers aren't tacky, but you are uneducated.
Anonymous
08/22/2025 21:35
Subject: “We don’t do leftovers”
Anonymous wrote: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.
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.
Anonymous
08/22/2025 20:49
Subject: “We don’t do leftovers”
Anonymous wrote: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.
i’m sorry but this is a ridiculous take. And yes I would still eat leftovers regardless of a diagnosis.
Anonymous
08/22/2025 20:01
Subject: “We don’t do leftovers”
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.
Anonymous
08/22/2025 19:07
Subject: “We don’t do leftovers”
Probably means they know how to cook the right amount for the number of people eating. We rarely have leftovers.
Anonymous
08/22/2025 19:06
Subject: “We don’t do leftovers”
Anonymous wrote:We never have leftovers either. I don't like to bring home food when we dine out (tacky and gross) and at home we have the correct amount of food prepared, cooked and served. DH has lunch brought into his work or dines out.
Do you beat your cook when she makes too much or too little? Or is that tacky?
Anonymous
08/22/2025 18:37
Subject: “We don’t do leftovers”
DD and DH will eat them sometimes, but DS and I never seem to find them appealing. I save leftovers and sometimes we bring home something from a dinner out, but it usually ends up being a detour to the trash.
Anonymous
08/22/2025 18:33
Subject: “We don’t do leftovers”
Anonymous wrote:We never have leftovers either. I don't like to bring home food when we dine out (tacky and gross) and at home we have the correct amount of food prepared, cooked and served. DH has lunch brought into his work or dines out.
Anonymous
08/22/2025 18:25
Subject: “We don’t do leftovers”
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:A friend doesn't do them because she grew up eating them for days on end and vowed not to when she was grown.
My in-law nieces and nephews born into UMC families and refuse to touch leftovers when they visit.
You bumped this thread to say that?
When people visit they should not be served leftovers.
If you make a large meal for visitors they may not want the leftovers the next day. You may have to plan for sandwiches or a dinner out. If they are visiting for a week they need to suck it up. They have already overstayed the 3-day welcome.