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Anonymous wrote:I'm a dad who does not cook. The enjoys cooking thank goodness. But for someone to say...I don't eat leftovers is absolutely bonkers to me. Absolutely nuts. I have not respect for these entitled a-holes. Honestly, if I met one and found this out, I couldn't talk to them or anything. They must be so spoiled that they would make me want to vomit. If my wife made some massive casserole and we ate it 4 nights in a row...I'd be as grateful on the 4th night as all the other nights.

+100 what an entitled a-hole. If my DH decided he didn't eat leftovers I would be deciding that I'm not cooking for him anymore.

Exactly! We eat takeout about twice a week, and when I cook I intentionally make enough to eat at least twice. Honestly I would be happy to eat leftovers for three or four days (best part about Thanksgiving!!). My FIL apparently does not like leftovers, but I would never humor that in my husband (who does not cook but happily cleans).

Anonymous wrote:DH won’t eat leftovers so we do something fresh every night. That said I’m creative and find ways to reuse things or make it easier.

In my experience, people who insist on a hot, fresh meal every night are not the ones who are cooking it.

Anonymous wrote:For serious health issues (two cancer survivors), we cook from scratch almost every night. But it’s usually throwing stuff on a sheet pan and then making a salad and/or pasta or rice. Two adults, two teens. Until recently, the kids took leftovers for school lunch the next day.

I can’t imagine cooking for 8 people every week let alone every day.

Don’t you mean every other day?

I always try to cook for two nights. If I’m lucky I can get two nights and a lunch out of it.

I say try because I have two teenagers and when they tell you teenagers are a bottomless pit, they’re not exaggerating. Sometimes I do end up cooking every night but my aim is for it to be enough for two.

Family of 5. With growing kids, we're in flux as to how far a recipe will go. If there is enough for a full dinner, or enough that I can stretch it w extra veggies or something else, then we have it a second night. Otherwise it's lunches. We do larger cuts of meat (pork shoulder, smoked turkey) and I freeze dinner portions of that. Or, if I'm making meatballs, I'd really rather make a double batch and freeze them from all that work.
So we eat scratch meals 6 nights a week, but if I plan for 4 recipes, we get through the week without tons of leftovers on Friday.

Anonymous wrote:I'm a dad who does not cook. The enjoys cooking thank goodness. But for someone to say...I don't eat leftovers is absolutely bonkers to me. Absolutely nuts. I have not respect for these entitled a-holes. Honestly, if I met one and found this out, I couldn't talk to them or anything. They must be so spoiled that they would make me want to vomit. If my wife made some massive casserole and we ate it 4 nights in a row...I'd be as grateful on the 4th night as all the other nights.

Funny story:

My brother had one girlfriend who was absolutely crazy. My mom was blind to this girl's faults. Why? Because the girlfriend would come over and GLADLY accept whatever random leftover stuff my mom would offer her to eat. It's been 30 years, my brother has been married to someone else for over 20 years, but my mom still talks about the girlfriend who would eat the leftovers. (She only says this when we all start talking about how crazy this girl was, which was solidified publicly when she went on a reality show, so she does come up randomly).

Why did my mom still like her? Because someone was appreciating her effort when she cooked every night!

We eat about 75% of our leftovers around here.

We eat the leftovers for lunch, or have a Thursday night "empty the fridge" meal if we have a lot from previous meals.

We cook 4-5 nights a week.

Anonymous wrote:I'm a dad who does not cook. The enjoys cooking thank goodness. But for someone to say...I don't eat leftovers is absolutely bonkers to me. Absolutely nuts. I have not respect for these entitled a-holes. Honestly, if I met one and found this out, I couldn't talk to them or anything. They must be so spoiled that they would make me want to vomit. If my wife made some massive casserole and we ate it 4 nights in a row...I'd be as grateful on the 4th night as all the other nights.

+100 what an entitled a-hole. If my DH decided he didn't eat leftovers I would be deciding that I'm not cooking for him anymore.

Anonymous wrote:Who has time to cook something different every night? I think your friends are ordering door dash. Of course, cook for two nights. Tacos, chicken dishes, chili, spaghetti, saucy meat dishes.

+1 however, we don't necessarily eat the same thing two days in a row. It may be later in the week or it goes in the freezer and gets rotated in later.

I basically cook every night (family of 6, two working parents) but I use my crockpot a lot. I also repurpose. Eg I grilled chicken this weekend, intentionally grilled a ton, then shredded the leftovers and will put it in chicken pot pie tonight.

I'm a dad who does not cook. The enjoys cooking thank goodness. But for someone to say...I don't eat leftovers is absolutely bonkers to me. Absolutely nuts. I have not respect for these entitled a-holes. Honestly, if I met one and found this out, I couldn't talk to them or anything. They must be so spoiled that they would make me want to vomit. If my wife made some massive casserole and we ate it 4 nights in a row...I'd be as grateful on the 4th night as all the other nights.

Family of 4 here, but kids are little (3&6). We rarely have leftovers, and when we do they’re usually for lunch. If I roast a chicken we may have that for dinner twice. We often do easy meals though - tacos, burgers, breakfast for dinner - 30 minutes or less to prepare. We get takeout probably twice a month but otherwise cook at home.

Single parent/one young kid. Every dinner I cook is enough for two consecutive kid lunches/adult lunches - minimum. Leftovers are served for another kid dinner/dog food “topper,” or if soup, frozen. Almost zero food waste. Takeout coffees almost daily, Grubhub twice a month.

For serious health issues (two cancer survivors), we cook from scratch almost every night. But it’s usually throwing stuff on a sheet pan and then making a salad and/or pasta or rice. Two adults, two teens. Until recently, the kids took leftovers for school lunch the next day.

I can’t imagine cooking for 8 people every week let alone every day.

We very rarely just eat the same dinner two nights in a row. Some meals - soups / stews / chili / casseroles in particular - I will make a double batch and freeze half. The second half comes out a couple of weeks or months later on the nights we have lots of activities right after school/work.

I will also sometimes cook a large portion of something generic, like a roast chicken, and repurpose the leftovers into a different dinner a couple of days later (soup, enchiladas, etc).

Otherwise, any leftovers turn into lunch for DH and me, sometimes even for the kids!