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MyballsareSandy2015 · 2015-12-19T08:21:55+00:00

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]

knobblyknee · 20/12/2015 14:51

Wait - are they pretending to be posh because you're there? Put the ketchup on the mantelpiece to see how they react.

Lweji · 20/12/2015 16:00

I've been wondering whether to post, but here it goes.
We also eat leftover sushi the following day. No ill effects so far.

It irritated me no end when exh threw away food, such as left over steak.

SladeGreen · 20/12/2015 16:42

OP, I am mortified on your behalf. Please accept my deepest condolences

I can't imagine not having leftover takeaway for breakfast the next day. I purposely buy extra just for that very purpose! Everything is fair game for a reheat in my household 🍕🍗🍛🍲🍔

sadwidow28 · 20/12/2015 18:52

Ooooh skankingpiglet you have just broken the memory of my German friends clearing out my cupboards of anything that was 'out of date'. That included:

a tub of Parmigiano Reggiano - but I always buy a bag of fresh and put it in the tub because it has a sprinkle thing on top (the date is only the date for the original cheese ... not the cheese that is currently in the tub)
my filter coffee - because I buy it in foil bags and pop into the empty tin (cheaper that way and environmentally friendly)
1 litre bottles of cooking oil and wine vinegars (both various flavours) - but I decant from 5L and 3L bottles that I keep at the back of the pantry as they are too bulky to store in the cupboard and too heavy to 'slosh' when cooking.
the marmalades and jams didn't stand a chance!

Now, by this time I had left my house to give them family space for the 10 day holiday and I was residing 40 miles away at my holiday home but was meeting up with them every day for the excursions I had planned and paid for. I got the urgent phone call on the Monday night to say what they needed me to buy and bring more of (hence the 'I have gone through your cupboards and thrown out all the out of date stuff'). I stupidly did a shopping trip before meeting them on Tuesday.

Wednesday night I got the 'we have run out of Cadbury Drinking Chocolate for the boys' milk shakes. We MIGHT have enough icecream to last' (I'd made them as a special treat at the BBQ)

Then before I actually met them on Thursday morning, another urgent phone call to say that the blender that the boys' made the milkshakes in was leaking (broken). So I took mine from the holiday home which they managed to break as well by Monday

By this time I was wondering if they were going to phone me when they ran out of milk.

And to get back to the OP's theme, I had only left medium sized pizzas in the chest freezer ........ so she informed me when we met on the Sunday that they had used all 10 (various flavours) because the boys' like cold pizza for supper and 5 x medium sizes weren't enough for main meal and left-overs for supper snack. My bin showed the truth ...... about 2 pizzas thrown away (clearly they didn't eat cold pizza for breakfast!)

I spent weeks going to get something out of my cupboards to find it >>>>>>>>> gone!

sadwidow28 · 20/12/2015 18:56

Ooooh skankingpiglet you have just broken the memory of my German friends clearing out my cupboards of anything that was 'out of date'.

That included:

a tub of Parmigiano Reggiano - but I always buy a bag of fresh and put it in the tub because it has a sprinkle thing on top (the date is only the date for the original cheese ... not the cheese that is currently in the tub)
my filter coffee - because I buy it in foil bags and pop into the empty tin (cheaper that way and environmentally friendly)
1 litre bottles of cooking oil and wine vinegars (both various flavours) - but I decant from 5L and 3L bottles that I keep at the back of the pantry as they are too bulky to store in the cupboard and too heavy to 'slosh' when cooking.
the marmalades and jams didn't stand a chance!

Now, by this time I had left my house to give them family space for the 10 day holiday and I was residing 40 miles away at my holiday home but was meeting up with them every day for the excursions I had planned and paid for. I got the urgent phone call on the Monday night to say what they needed me to buy and bring more of (hence the 'I have gone through your cupboards and thrown out all the out of date stuff'). I stupidly did a shopping trip before meeting them on Tuesday.

Wednesday night I got the 'we have run out of Cadbury Drinking Chocolate for the boys' milk shakes. We MIGHT have enough icecream to last' (I'd made them as a special treat at the BBQ)

Then before I actually met them on Thursday morning, another urgent phone call to say that the blender that the boys' made the milkshakes in was leaking (broken). So I took mine from the holiday home which they managed to break as well by Monday

By this time I was wondering if they were going to phone me when they ran out of milk.

And to get back to the OP's theme, I had only left medium sized pizzas in the chest freezer ........ so she informed me when we met on the Sunday that they had used all 10 (various flavours) because the boys' like cold pizza for supper and 5 x medium sizes weren't enough for main meal and left-overs for supper snack. My bin showed the truth ...... about 2 pizzas thrown away (clearly they didn't eat cold pizza for breakfast!)

I spent weeks going to get something out of my cupboards to find it >>>>>>>>> gone!

Oysterbabe · 20/12/2015 19:02

A jury of your peers would acquit on the grounds of justifiable homicide.

Lweji · 20/12/2015 19:04

sadwidow28

Do you still speak to them?

GreenTomatoJam · 20/12/2015 19:06

I haven't seen it here, and I'm sure it'll horrify pretty much everyone, but doner kebab... that has been sat in the kitchen and everything has congealed, the cabbage has got a bit softer, and the garlic sauce has thoroughly soaked into the pitta was one of my favourite things as a student. I could never eat a whole one, so having it for brunch the next day was perfect.

Admittedly, this was in winter (couldn't eat kebabs on a hot day), so the kitchen was pretty cold, and I probably didn't get in until early morning anyhow, and the kebab shop in town was known for being particularly good (especially for a kebab shop) hygiene-wise, but I'm pretty shocked myself that I never suffered any ill effects from that habit.

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MyballsareSandy2015 · 20/12/2015 19:13

God some of these stories are horrific! Such waste!

I've let it go and haven't crossed these friends off my Xmas card list ... yet! Just getting ready to go out for dinner, I may ask for a doggy bag if lots is left

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MrsTerryPratchett · 20/12/2015 19:18

No, a large chicken does us for one meal, 2 adults 4 DC. Carcass in the bin No stock.

ColdWhiteWinePlease · 20/12/2015 19:28

NEVER throw away Take out! We've just had a Chinese and the leftovers will be had for breakfast. DH heats his, but I have it cold. It's Yummy. I can't remember ever throwing away any part of a Take Away, apart from Pizza crust and the weird red onion that you get from the Indian.

sadwidow28 · 20/12/2015 19:32

Lweji I didn't speak to my friend for years because I realised afterwards just how much I had been taken for granted and the friendship had been abused. (I even insured my car for friend to drive and filled it with petrol ...... but she asked me to take it to a petrol station to fill up again on Saturday as she didn't think there would be enough fuel left until Monday).

It started off as trying to do a kindness for a family of 5 who couldn't afford a holiday at all - but DH got FREE flights annually with his job. It made sense to fly into the UK and have my house for 10 days and I would tootle off to my holiday home.

I think my rant at her afterwards via FB private message will go down in the history of time.

Me: Where did all the bacon, sausage and black pudding go?
Her: We brought it back with us as you left far too much in the fridges for us to use in the 10 days
Me: Did the boys eat all the crisps and chocolates? (2 storage boxes full for choice)
Her: No. The boys put what was left in their rucksacks as you had bought the snacks for them.

I then disgraced myself and called her 'grabby' ........

I type 60 words a minute and I went into free-flow

But she got back in touch when she had cancer and wanted prayers. Now we speak occasionally..... but it will never be the same. My house is NOT her house!

Our cultural differences are actually too great.

sadwidow28 · 20/12/2015 19:44

MyballsareSandy2015 I ALWAYS ask for a doggy bag! My appetite is so small that I never manage to eat everything served for an adult (I do often just order a starter for my main meal - that's more my size.) But about 3 hours after the meal is over, I think "I could 'murder' that [left-overs] now."

So I have no shame asking for the waitress to wrap it up in a bit of foil for the dog. (Yes - I DO have a DDog, and I DO offer to share with him, but he is not best pleased when I have ordered fish for my meal..... he prefers something that is meaty!)

Oh GreenTomatoJam - you have just reminded me of one of my favourites from student days! Left over doner kebab. Yum!!!!

Lillabet · 21/12/2015 13:28

Behaviour like that would cause you to be barred for life from my house!
And for those of you who throw away left overs, what profligate behaviour have my first ever and yes it's fresh from the packet
One chicken should not feed two adults and four children once, you should be able to get two meals plus stock out of it at least!

WhatALoadOfOldBollocks · 21/12/2015 14:08

Whaaaaat! They threw the leftovers in the bin!? To me the best bit of a takeaway is the leftovers, hot or cold. It can be pizza, Chinese or fish and chips, it's all lovely the next day. I get a kick out of one portion (they're always so big!) lasting 2 meals, it's 2 for the price of 1 isn't it.

BreakingDad77 · 21/12/2015 14:18

this annoys the hell out of me as DW does it a lot, just because she doesn't want to eat it.

It has a high value as well to just chuck away.

Xocaraic · 21/12/2015 14:59

Never ever ever keep leftover take away. Always bin it. Can't stand smell next morning.

beardsrock · 21/12/2015 15:02

Sacrilege.

She should have made stock out of the crusts.

BrianButterfield · 21/12/2015 15:05

Lol at the snidey obseity crisis comment. As if leftover takeaway is the cause. Of course if you ate it all in one sitting at night it wouldn't be, but if you have it the next morning it's totally going to make you obese.
I don't like leftover stuff for breakfast but lunch, yeah, bring it on.

BarbaraofSeville · 21/12/2015 15:24

I know Brian - I was going to pick up on the obesity crisis comment but couldn't be arsed making a suitably well written post, but my consumption of leftover takeaway helps me to eat less not more, because I eat half one day and half the next.

Many of those weirdos who won't eat leftovers will be stuffing themselves at the first sitting to reduce the amount that goes in the bin. I find that if I know I will be able to eat more of it tomorrow, it is easier to stop when I am full so save half for the next day.

But I still think that throwing away food is a disgusting waste. I really don't see the problem with leftover takeway - I enjoy it very much, but if you don't intend to eat it all, for God's sake buy less in the first place.

I'm always astonished at the statistics on waste food (families throw away over a thousand pounds worth of waste food a year for example) because people always complain about food being expensive and there must be an awful lot of people wasting an an awful lot of food to balance out the people like me that waste almost nothing. It's probably no more than a fiver or so a month and I feel bad enough about that. I can't imagine wasting almost a hundred pounds a month or more's worth of food. Absolutely disgusting.

Pantone363 · 21/12/2015 15:54

Re the obesity comments.

You eat half the pizza, you're full and then throw the leftovers away. If you don't save the rest of it for tomorrow you haven't eaten the whole pizza. I'm presuming your typical breakfast doesn't equal half a pizza.

This obsession with not wasting food and eating everything on your plate or eating it tomorrow does fuel obesity. Your eating fatty, cheese pizza for breakfast!

TheSecondViola · 21/12/2015 16:05

But most people don't eat half a pizza and throw the other half away. Because its a stupid and wasteful thing to do.

BarbaraofSeville · 21/12/2015 16:13

Actually my typical breakfast might be half a pizza or equivalent . I am always much hungrier in the morning than the evening. if I had pizza in the evening I would only have a couple of slices and be full so would save most of it until the next day. I am not overweight.

I would be murderous towards someone throwing away all that good food.

BrianButterfield · 21/12/2015 17:01

Of course, someone eating cheese on toast with some slices of tomato would be OK, but god forbid they eat pizza!

Ta1kinPeece · 21/12/2015 18:10

I do not throw any food in the bin.
Ever.

Once you have looked at how posh restaurants batch cook and pre prepare everything and then hold it in the fridge for days
you'll never be judgey about takeaway again