I don't like most left overs, so I don't make leftovers.

Sometimes I will make a large portion of something (e.g. a big pot of soup or a large container of pasta salad) and portion it out for lunch multiple days, but generally when I cook I cook 1 day's worth, but I think of that as "cooking ahead" rather than a meal with leftovers. But generally, I just adjust the recipe to serve exactly the number of people in our family, bring everything to the table and everything gets eaten.

Another all-of-the-above poster here. DH won't pack lunch but sometimes he will eat the leftovers for breakfast or if he gets home before I do and is hungry (we usually cook together). I will take some leftovers to work - usually vegetable-based or something that can be eaten cold like fried chicken. I really don't care for reheated meat so if DH doesn't eat those, they get thrown out. Most nights we don't have too many leftovers though.

I used to hate leftover after a childhood of poverty and marriage to a man who would eat food that was horribly old. Post-divorce, I largely cooked to avoid leftovers, but now I've learned how to plan out meals so that leftovers are eaten the next day and aren't obviously leftovers.

Anonymous wrote:I seriously don't understand, why don't people not want to eat leftovers????? Please someone explain it to me!

if i can reheat them properly at home, fine. meat or pasta reheated in the office microwave? blech. the texture is gross.

I seriously don't understand, why don't people not want to eat leftovers????? Please someone explain it to me!

My husband will only eat certain leftovers. He grew up poor, so I think he was forced to eat some pretty nasty leftovers growing up. I eat them for lunch, but sometimes it here is just too much or some recipe wasn't very good and we eventually throw it out. I try to plan so we do not have so many leftovers, but it is hard to gauge what my DH and son will eat. Sometimes a pot full of chili is almost eaten in one meal and other times it lasts a week. I have started avoiding recipes that are too large and cannot be easily cut in half (or frozen).

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Anonymous wrote:A person who wastes food is rich.

No. A person who wastes food is wasteful.

If you have enough money to burn on food you do not eat, then you are rich.

NP. No, doesn't mean they are rich, means they are wasteful. They could be rich or poor. A co-worker of mine gets food stamps and buys lunch with her own money because she doesn't like to eat leftovers.

Poor people do not waste scarce resources.

I try to avoid having leftovers. My husband refuses to eat them (it's a mental thing). I would be happy to eat them for lunch, but I have yet to find a reliable way to transport them via Metro that doesn't result in liquid leaking out all over the inside of my bag.

I always package leftovers with the best of intentions for using them to make lunch and subsequent dinners. Sometimes I follow through. Other times they sit in the fridge for a week, and finally get thrown out when: a) it's trash day, b) it's grocery shopping day and I need the fridge space, or c) I run out of leftover containers and decide that I need to wash some to use for the next night's leftovers (which I'm sure will be eaten within a day or two).

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Anonymous wrote:A person who wastes food is rich.

No. A person who wastes food is wasteful.

If you have enough money to burn on food you do not eat, then you are rich.

NP. No, doesn't mean they are rich, means they are wasteful. They could be rich or poor. A co-worker of mine gets food stamps and buys lunch with her own money because she doesn't like to eat leftovers.

Anonymous wrote:I purposely make extra so I have leftovers.

+1
If the food is really good, sometimes there aren't leftovers! But we set leftovers aside for lunch the next day.

Leftovers make a much tastier and more healthful lunch than what I can buy close to my office.

I love left overs! I rely on them to get us through the week. I don't have time to cook a whole meal every night. It's great!

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Anonymous wrote:A person who wastes food is rich.

No. A person who wastes food is wasteful.

If you have enough money to burn on food you do not eat, then you are rich.