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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How much leftover meal is too much? We eat a lot of leftover in our house and I am wondering if this is going to be a problem with the AP. New HM Here. AP starting in July.
I like to cook big quantities and freeze it for later, this works best for me. So usually I cook fresh on Saturday and/or Sunday, big quantities and eat during the week.
Here is about how it works in our house:

Monday: Leftover from Saturday 
Tuesday: Leftover from Sunday or frozen meal from even earlier
Wednesday: Fresh food (because I work from home on Wednesday, so I have time to do this)
Thursday: frozen pasta sauce + pasta
Friday: salad or pizza or combo of leftovers lol
Saturday: Fresh cooking after grocery shopping (e.g. huge bowl of pasta sauce that we split in multiple portions)
Sunday: Fresh cooking (another huge quantity of something)

From time to time I improvise, so what you see above is on my very busy week.

So I count 3 days of fresh cooking, but I have been told that most APs don't eat home on weekend so it might be only 1 day fresh food for her. 
This works great for us but with one more person in the house and I starting to wonder if we do too much frozen meals/leftover  :lol: [/quote]

Where is your AP from? Our AP from Spain was used to a very different culture when it came to food (fresh and groceries bought in small batches) than our Mexican AP who ate  mostly fast food at home. I wouldn't change your cooking habits for the AP. I would just explain how you handle meals and ask if there are some staples (for example eggs, fruit, etc) that they like to cook on their own.  [/quote]

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