[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Leftovers (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 10/1/2012 5:05:15 AM EDT
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Do you actually eat them? My family always ends up with a fridge full of leftovers that we need to clean out about once every two weeks. It depends on what it was and how good it was, too. Like when I make Chili Mac those leftovers are cleaned up within 24 hours, but the other day I made some baked ziti which was kind of "meh" and the leftovers are still in the fridge. There's just something about eating a fresh meal as opposed to something reheated. |
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I live alone, and I pretty much live on leftovers. If I didn't eat leftovers, I'd either be cooking tiny quantities or throwing away more than I eat. Hell, I often cook stuff and put it straight in the frige. Breakfast and lunch are almost always leftovers, dinner is about 50/50. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Quoted: What I think is funny is the people who don't like leftovers or reheated food, it has to be fresh! But they're perfectly happy to eat fast food or Applebees. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile I see your point and I am one of those people. FWIW I had leftovers for breakfast this morning from when I went out to eat last night. |
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It depends on what was cooked but I eat a lot more of them than my wife does. If I grill burgers, I make an extra one for my lunch the next day.
When I cook, it's usually something fairly elaborate, like homemade spaghetti sauce, gumbo, fried rice, or meat on the smoker. I pretty much always make enough extra to freeze some for later. I made spaghetti sauce this weekend and froze enough for us to have two meals later, even after I had leftovers for lunch yesterday. But we still throw out an embarrassing amount of food. Especially so considering how much expensive cheese and such we tend to use when cooking. |
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Unless it's one of the more obnoxious Lebanese concoctions*, I generally bring leftovers to work for lunch the next day. Used to be I could eat pretty well that way, but now that both sons are teenagers I've been losing weight.
* Mjadra (lentil beans & rice), for example 
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Almost always, I hate waste. (I hate my waist, also, but that's another issue...) This. Yes, this is major for me. I'm the one who buys most of our groceries and I'm the one who does the cooking. I have neither time nor money in abundance and abhor wasting them. |
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Our leftovers get packed as lunches, and that's usually a very good thing. The only thing that never gets eaten is left over pot roast. I don't know why but I just can't bear to touch the stuff. I barely like it when it's new. We fight over the left over shrimp scampi. |
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we need to factor in a time period for leftovers
wife wont eat any leftovers after the 24 hour mark. it is "bad" or "old" by then and she wont touch it. pretty much I am learning to cook for 2.5-3 people that way we both have dinner and one lunch leftover so we dont have any waste 
last night I made a soup and failed at portion control. made about 3 gallons of soup 
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Spent all day yesterday roasting an AMAZING free range chicken. Cleaned the carcass and made stock. It is getting halved, going for a chicken noodle soup and a tuscan veggie soup. I will be eating left overs for a couple weeks. I roasted a chicken last week. As I'm butterflying it, my wife yells, "SAVE ME THE SPINE! DON'T THROW IT AWAY!" As if I'd forget.
Her soup is fuckin' outstanding. 
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Quoted: It depends on what was cooked but I eat a lot more of them than my wife does. If I grill burgers, I make an extra one for my lunch the next day. When we cook burgers, I fill the grill with them. We eat our meal then, save a few in the fridge for leftovers later that week, and I bag and freeze the rest. Frozen, cooked burger patties are awesome for a quick meal. |
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Okay, I'm one of those people who don't like leftovers. It ain't due to "some nebulous principle", it's because cold clammy food in the fridge is highly unappetizing. And even when carefully reheated, the taste has changed from when it was freshly-made. Basically, it's stale.
But the main objection I have to leftovers is looking at the same damn stuff I ate yesterday. Yes I'm spoiled, but I just don't like the monotony of the same thing day after day. Give me something different, some variety. It's the American way. |
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Okay, I'm one of those people who don't like leftovers. It ain't due to "some nebulous principle", it's because cold clammy food in the fridge is highly unappetizing. And even when carefully reheated, the taste has changed from when it was freshly-made. Basically, it's stale. But the main objection I have to leftovers is looking at the same damn stuff I ate yesterday. Yes I'm spoiled, but I just don't like the monotony of the same thing day after day. Give me something different, some variety. It's the American way. Wrong. It tastes even moar betterer. It's been aged like good cheese or fine wine. It also tastes like victory. Seriously, who doesn't like cold pizza, reheated Chinese carry out, or eating good home cooked food that you happened to have made a day or two ago? |
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Sunday Dinner is almost Always used as leftovers for the rest of the week.
The Family frowns on throwing away edible food. Food is rarely thrown out. Too many of our relatives grew up in the Great Depression. We'd hear tales of an aunt, uncle, mother, father doing what was necessary to put food on the table. To the forests for berries, neighbors for an odd job to bring in a few dollars to buy food. Anything to keep hunger away. When I see on the TV news about the latest famine over in Africa, then in another segment school children throwing away their lunch because they can't stand the taste....Fill in the blank yourself. I was taught not to waste food. It would be nice if more American's were taught the same thing. 
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