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All the leftovers are in the bin!!

197 replies

MyballsareSandy2015 · 19/12/2015 08:21

Who does that!!
I'm away with friends and last night we had curry and pizza delivered. Ordered too much and quite a lot was left.
I've just got up and was thinking a slice of cold pizza would go down well with this hangover ....... to discover it is all IN THE BIN. Shock

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CleverPlansAndSecretTricks · 19/12/2015 17:52

I once stayed with friends and we had a lovely roast leg of lamb for dinner. Only 6 people eating so more than half left. They put the whole thing in the bin!! It was their lamb that they had paid for but still...

The friend who had cooked it for them was really annoyed.

ChubbyMummy12 · 19/12/2015 19:05

Cold pizza is bloody amazing.. I tend to buy a pizza in a bigger size purely for the left overs Shock they taste so much better when cold...

Lweji · 19/12/2015 19:09

Not even roast lamb sandwiches?

What a waste of food!

DorothyBastard · 19/12/2015 19:31

Slightly graphic but I was eating my leftover Dominoes the other lunchtime (over half a pizza left, bloody delicious), when my 2yo DD started complaining that she felt a bit cold. Then she whimpered a bit, turned to me, and vommed all over my lovely cold pizza. I mean, poor her but good god sort your aim out child!

SevenOfNineTrue · 19/12/2015 19:32

YANBU. I hate waste. You can always store safely and eat another time.

DontMindMe1 · 19/12/2015 19:47

It gets binned straight after the meal here.Reheated food is grim

i'm agog at these kind of responses! Xmas Hmm [fshocked] Xmas Confused

i can understand throwing leftover from someone's plate into thew bin/food recycling/compost....but PERFECTLY EDIBLE food?!!!! [FSHOCK]

I can only assume that you can afford to be so disgustingly wasteful, snobbish and selfish.

i always use leftovers the next day. Leftover food that i don't like (like when house guests order in) or food that will expire before i can get round to eating it gets cooked, heated and then - depending on how much of it there is - either gets taken to my local homeless shelter or i physically hand it to the homeless.

To this day i have never NOT been able to find someone who was grateful for this- be it a neighbour, stranger or homeless person.

Thank god i don't have any friends with the attitudes some of you have - i'd be ashamed to know you.

thatwouldbeanecumenicalmatter · 19/12/2015 20:01

Lucky, lucky bin Xmas Sad

FeliciaJollygoodfellow · 19/12/2015 20:06

Do people really think that maybe the pizza place has a room out back for all the pizzas they are saving just to cause food poisoning? Xmas Confused

Learningtoletgo · 19/12/2015 20:07

How are you doing, are you OK Flowers

Thinking of you...
Thinking of the bin...

So sad ...

reaches for takeaway menu to honour the memory of dear departed pizza

MrsHathaway · 19/12/2015 20:24

We deliberately order too much curry, and portion out half to cool quickly and freeze.

Indian takeaway is nicest when you have a big range to pick at, but that's not economical in small numbers. By freezing half for another day, we get the benefit of all the variety twice, and one time it's "free" (ahem).

DH would ltb if I binned leftover pizza, even a single slice.

Francescal88 · 19/12/2015 20:42

Sacrilege!!

All the leftovers are in the bin!!
Pantone363 · 19/12/2015 21:40

You hand your leftover food to homeless people? In true real life? Fuck off you do.

Disgustingly wasteful, snobbish and selfish Grin its PIZZA. Cold, day old pizza. I don't want to eat pizza for breakfast if I had it last night. I don't want to eat pizza for breakfast at all. Or chinese or curry.

DontMindMe1 · 19/12/2015 22:58

pantone363 leftover food that i like is usually eaten by me - or the cats Grin

When friends stay over/come round and order food, any leftovers that doesn't get polished off the next day or i don't like gets put in a tub and handed to a homeless person - yes. Usually, it's only been enough to feed one person - but that's still worth it.

i live on my own so i don't always get round to using all my groceries before they go off, so yes, i will cook it all and put it into tubs (after heating it) and hand it out. I'm a hoarder so all the margarine tubs, glass jars etc that live in my 'craft' cupboard get used for that 'might need them for something' reason i give for hoarding them in the first place Xmas Smile

It isn't hard to find homeless people on the street - there's usually at least one per block after i step off the bus in town. Also, i'm sure the idea of foodbanks was an anathema to the general population as well at one point.....

patterkiller · 19/12/2015 23:03

Im not that keen on takeaways fresh. The next day is just grim. We bin it straight away.

StubbleTurnips · 19/12/2015 23:07

Leftover home cooked food - yes.

Takeaways - no.

Half a Chinese went in the bin last night here, no way I'm eating It again. However, I know my sister and best friend would kill me for lobbing out pizzas so they hide it eat the next day.

skankingpiglet · 20/12/2015 12:36

Sadwidow we have German friends who came over to stay with another family with whom we are mutual friends. The German wife went through my friend's cupboards and threw out everything that wasn't in date... Shock Friend was (rightly) outraged to find jars of marmalade and similar in the bin! Marmalade comes under the banner of if it hasn't got mould on it, it's still fine to eat regardless of the date IMO. Even if you are the kind of person who never eats anything past its BB, surely you don't clear someone else's cupboards of it?!
Maybe it's a cultural thing? or we have the same friends

WorraLiberty · 20/12/2015 12:41

The curry would have gone in the bin

The pizza would have gone in the fridge, to be re-heated for lunch.

whois · 20/12/2015 13:19

Im not that keen on takeaways fresh. The next day is just grim. We bin it straight away.

What is the difference between a home cooked curry, and a take away curry - in terms of how edible it is the next day?

GlowWine · 20/12/2015 13:38

skankingpiglet not a cultural thing! You get ppl like that in any modern Western culture these days Hmm

Just checked some of the jars in the fridge. Cranberry sauce from last year? Seems perfectly fine Blush I have (unopened) home made jams and chutneys that are now of 1year+ vintage and better for it. I made them so i know they were properly sterilized etc. Obviously I'd throw out anything doubtful!

GlowWine · 20/12/2015 13:40

PS going through someone else's cupboard is never okay either! You might choose not to eat their food but to go as far as throwing it out??

Ta1kinPeace · 20/12/2015 14:03

skanking
I would be DEEPLY pissed off if ANYBODY did that in my house.
The fridge is one thing I have to decontaminate my mother's fridge when I go but cupboards is out of order.

BarbaraofSeville · 20/12/2015 14:13

Leftover takeaway is amazing. Pizza for breakfast especially so.

I can never eat a full portion so I always make it last for two meals. We had curry takeaway on Friday night so I had chicken and lentil curry and half a garlic naan for brunch yesterday. Yum!

I also batch cook so at least half of what I eat is technically leftovers - I am the Queen of reinventing leftovers. Leftover chilli into enchiladas for example. I'm looking forward to Christmas dinner because I will cook loads of food that we will eat for the next 2 or 3 days with little or no more cooking. Hot roast meat sandwiches, more roast dinners, last of the roast potatoes fried up with leftover pigs in blankets.

Can't believe that people throw so much perfectly good food in the bin. Is totally shameful.

kickassangel · 20/12/2015 14:24

Why are people bothered about food being batch cooked for a takeaway? If an Indian/Chinese place makes a large amount of the most popular dishes that day, and heat it correctly, it doesn't matter if it's been served at 8 pm or 9 pm. It's like having a giant slow cooker.

Most places have the sauces already prepared, then quickly cook the meat and combine the two.

And yes, I always keep left overs and re-use them. Just like batch cooking and saving some. But I would make sure that it's been in the fridge and properly stored.

Ta1kinPeace · 20/12/2015 14:30

kickass
Why are people bothered about food being batch cooked for a takeaway?

Too right.

If you go to a Michelin starred restaurant and order the
slow braised ox cheek
it was mostly cooked about a week before and then held in the fridge until being heated up and flash fried for your delectation

let alone the amount of Brake Bros or Country Choice or 3663 lorries you see delivering to restaurants who purport to serve fresh food

knobblyknee · 20/12/2015 14:39

Bloody weirdos. 3/4 of the food in our fridge/freezer is leftovers. I'd eat it out of the bin if it hadn't touched anything nasty.

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