Anonymous
08/23/2025 12:47
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.
If I put two items in front of you, freshly made vs day old, nobody in their right mind is choosing the day old. Stop all the nonsense about food being better the next day. Sounds like boomer crap to pressure kids into eating day and two day old slop.
Dp +1 in almost all cases
I understand if you need to eat leftovers as a practical matter with a large family.
But yes. Nobody calls ahead to a restaurant and requests they prepare their meal a day in advance, keep it overnight, then reheat when you arrive.
Anonymous
08/23/2025 12:10
Subject: “We don’t do leftovers”
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We don't have leftovers unless I roast a whole chicken or turkey or do a rib roast. I cook for 2 people and know what to do.
Ok that’s why-cooking for two is a whole different thing. Cooking for 3 teenagers plus yourself and a spouse requires leftovers for me not to be cooking all day/everyday. Cooking for two seems like a very specific situation.
If you prepare multiple days' food at once and freeze or refrigerate the second and/or third day's food, that's not leftovers.
I am the cooking for 2 person. I make chicken and rice in a big pot and freeze 2 day's worth. That's not "leftovers" that is meal planning.
Leftovers are what's scraped off plates or pans. Left not eaten.
Anonymous
08/23/2025 11:54
Subject: “We don’t do leftovers”
Anonymous wrote:Loving leftovers sounds like a poor person cope or just trying to rationalize being a cheapskate miser.
No, it just sounds like you aren’t a good cook.
Anonymous
08/23/2025 11:53
Subject: “We don’t do leftovers”
Anonymous wrote:Loving leftovers sounds like a poor person cope or just trying to rationalize being a cheapskate miser.
Leftover cold pizza , Chinese food, Indian food always a favorite
Leftover spaghetti and meatballs yum
Anonymous
08/23/2025 11:52
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.
If I put two items in front of you, freshly made vs day old, nobody in their right mind is choosing the day old. Stop all the nonsense about food being better the next day. Sounds like boomer crap to pressure kids into eating day and two day old slop.
Anonymous
08/23/2025 11:49
Subject: “We don’t do leftovers”
Loving leftovers sounds like a poor person cope or just trying to rationalize being a cheapskate miser.
Anonymous
08/23/2025 11:00
Subject: “We don’t do leftovers”
Anonymous wrote:We don't have leftovers unless I roast a whole chicken or turkey or do a rib roast. I cook for 2 people and know what to do.
Ok that’s why-cooking for two is a whole different thing. Cooking for 3 teenagers plus yourself and a spouse requires leftovers for me not to be cooking all day/everyday. Cooking for two seems like a very specific situation.
Anonymous
08/23/2025 10:45
Subject: “We don’t do leftovers”
Me too. And, they usually taste even better the next day.Anonymous wrote:Love leftovers.
Anonymous
08/23/2025 10:44
Subject: “We don’t do leftovers”
We don't have leftovers unless I roast a whole chicken or turkey or do a rib roast. I cook for 2 people and know what to do.
Anonymous
08/23/2025 10:26
Subject: “We don’t do leftovers”
Anonymous wrote: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.
That sounds disgusting.
+1
Anonymous
08/23/2025 10:20
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.
Oh, you’ve chosen exactly the wrong food item to make your point. Anything with tomatoes in it is better on the second day.
Your BLTs sound too soggy for my liking.
Let’s assume you are meaning the tomato sauce. Fresh pasta and béchamel are not improving over time - fresh is best.
Tomato sauce is acceptable to let set. Let’s say you use premade sauce allows to rest. The question is, would anyone notice the difference between the same prep, one with fresh sauce, the other with sauce aged a day or two. Not likely. Possible. Not likely .
Anonymous
08/23/2025 10:05
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.
What? Of course I would eat leftovers if I'm dying in December!! We will all die someday. Does that fact give yourself license to ruin the environment by wasting food? GTFO. People who think this way should die immediately, not December.
Anonymous
08/23/2025 10:04
Subject: “We don’t do leftovers”
Anonymous wrote:What is that supposed to mean? Like, eating leftovers is below their social standing? I didn’t know leftovers had social class connotations.
No but there are people that came out of the depression with this thought process.
Our neighbors growing up the dad would say this all the time . He also beat the hell out of his wife 12 kids Catholic. His thought was he grew up during the depression and he made it big how dare his wife ever serve something used.
I will never forget his words ever .
This was very common in my neighborhood in the 1960s.
Anonymous
08/23/2025 10:02
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.
That sounds disgusting.
Anonymous
08/23/2025 10:01
Subject: “We don’t do leftovers”
Anonymous wrote:Probably means they know how to cook the right amount for the number of people eating. We rarely have leftovers.
+1.