Leftover takeaway wars

Person b
Cold curry on cold wholemeal toast the next day 😋

I cannot vote as this would not be an issue ever in my family. I am the person who never finishes her portion and whose takeways often last for 3 meals. Whatever is in the fridge is for anyone in the family to eat unless it is packed away with a Do Not Touch! sign. We understand that people do not eat equal portions and share food without a second thought.

Whenever I order Chinese I order enough that I have leftovers for the next day 🙈 I love some leftover chow mein for breakfast

I’m with person A on this one, to be honest, unless person B stated “I’m not eating so and so because I want to save them for tomorrow”.

Reason being that each person ate whatever they felt like at that meal, then leftovers are just another meal to be split again.

Whoever gets there first!

I got the “house full of teenage boys “ perspective from DH on this, having never been one myself and only having an 11yo DS. He says it’s a zero sum game- all the curry will get eaten eventually so even with completely shared dishes you plate up your share straight away and eat it when you choose.

In our house we keep our own left overs - I eat less than my husband at meal times and love saving myself Indian food for the next day. I can get two meals out of a normal take away order whereas my husband would eat his whole order at once. Why should he then get some of mine?? Might be differnet if we order a bunch of dishes to share and I happen to eat less but we don't tend to order like that

I am aghast. Once the takeaway has been eaten then the takeaway leftovers are a New Food.

Now you have gone to the fridge and have a choice as you would… for example a whole quiche. Would you have half the quiche and leave half for your partner or instead eat it all. This is the case with The Leftovers. You must now see them as an entity within themselves

Yanbu. Person B gets them

Well in our house it goes like this:

person a - orders curry and garlic naan
person b - orders curry and garlic naan

person a & b also order 1 rice, portion of onion bhaji (2 bhajis in said portion), pickle tray and poppadoms to share.

persons a & b are greedy bastards and both eat everything thus not leaving any leftovers to become concerned about.

However, in the event that one person doesn’t eat their quota of Indian goodness then they should have the left overs of their curry before the other person tries to have dibs.

I'm not married, so the rules in my house are different.

If the (now adult) children order food and have leftovers, they must offer me them on account of the fact that they never bought me any, which should be illegal because I birthed them and kept them alive for 18+ years.

If I order and have leftovers, that food is mine. I paid for it. Touch it and I will be forced to kill you.

I'd LTB for stealing my leftovers.

Person B gets to eat the left overs. However, if person A footed the bill they’re more than welcome to the left overs or I’ll share.

Maybe I’m just lucky and me and my partner have similar tastes. But I always just get two things I want! (Or his just indulging me and giving me his choice too!)

Person B gets to finish THEIR food at a second sitting.

Person A is a CF to suggest otherwise.

You eat what you ordered. Or whoever gets to the leftovers first.

Everyone should order their own bhuna if they want a bhuna because that's my bhuna but if I ate my bhuna my husband should share his bhuna with me the next day because he didn't want it and that's why it's left over. You can't not want it then want it again and expect to still
be king of the Bhuna. It's a new day!

If they wanted it they should have eaten it at takeaway time as after that all bets are off.

I’m sorry, I can’t get past 2 things.

1. takeaway that isn’t all eaten in one sitting
2. sharing a man bread between 2 people, surely you should have one each?

Person B gets it and I'd have a right tantrum if person A ate is as I don't share food

That might work for you.
20+ years here and it was established early on that he does not interfere with my food and I do not interfere with his. There is plenty of other stuff that does not involve scoffing my curry 😆

In this house if one of us fancied it the next day they would ask the other one if we fancied some too and if both wanted some we'd share or otherwise the person who wants it would eat it all.

It is person b’s meal. Person a can only touch it if person B for some reason has other meal plans and voluntarily offers the leftovers to Person A.

I'm too cynical and also find it unbelievable that anyone could not imagine people not enjoying the same foods. I read that message as "I could not imagine eating a full curry". I was waiting for that poster to come back and clarify that they order 2 mains and half a side to share between 12 of them, and they have enough leftovers to last them a month.

Is this a long term relationship? If so, then it should be shared because over the course of 10 years/a long term relationsip the food distribution should surely even out by then, I mean, there must have been times when your chicken portion was bigger than his or there was an extra slice of pepperoni on your half of the pizza yes?

Person B should definitely get first dibs!