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To scrape leftover pasta bake back into the dish to eat later

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Therunecaster · 04/03/2018 14:07

So DP and I are on a tight budget this month. To save money I cooked a massive pasta bake but was rather too generous with the portion sizes for DS and DDs lunch. To not waste good food I scraped their leftovers back into the pasta dish to freeze for later. Kids saw me doing this and have accused me of being a minger. Am I or are they BU...

OP posts:
Peanutbuttercups21 · 04/03/2018 16:42

Mshomeslice, I hope you never kissed anyone, then froze them, then thawed them, then reheated them Grin

The myth that anything goes as long as you reheat it is such a myth

A dangerous myth

The OP's general food hygiene sounds lacking.

Original poster
Therunecaster · 04/03/2018 17:02

The kids don't smell...I'm just not washing clothes that have been tossed into The laundry basket rather than put away...ok one last confession. If (and this doesn't happen often) we can't finish the whole bottle of wine, we pour the dregs into a tub to freeze for cooking.

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NotTakenUsername · 04/03/2018 17:04

No issue with that. Use an ice cube tray, much easier to use in cooking.

YearOfYouRemember · 04/03/2018 17:06

That last one makes sense

kubex · 04/03/2018 17:07

So you now have a pasta bake made up of the left overs scraped from several different plates??

How fucking disgusting!

PurpleDaisies · 04/03/2018 17:11

  1. Pasta leftovers mixed together is horrible. I’d happily eat my own leftovers but thecwah you’re doing it is grim. Just serve less to start with and let people get seconds.

  2. Clean clothes in a laundry bin will pick up dirty clothes flea bag smell. Yuck.

  3. Freezing wine is fine.

dustarr73 · 04/03/2018 17:12

The clothes one makes sense.I dont wash hoodys that have been worn for a nanasecond and flung in for washing.

But the pastabake is awful.Its not nice to eat other peoples leftovers and scraping the plates back in is grim.

speakout · 04/03/2018 17:13

I don't mind the scrapings, but I wouldn't recycle pasta bake. I do pick and choose. If a family member ( we are 5 nearly adults) left some prime roast beef on a plate- too right I will salvage that. OH will love to make himself a sandwich with horseradish to take to work the next day.

GreatDuckCookery6211 · 04/03/2018 17:15

No chance. I wouldn't even scrape my own leftovers back in the dish. The dog would have it.

speakout · 04/03/2018 17:16

Just to add - OH has two degrees- first was in catering and he worked in some high profile and expensive chain type restaurants.
Recycling food was common place in all environments.

SaucyJack · 04/03/2018 17:18

Grim. You may as well eat out of the bin.

Allow yourself to have standards next time.

dustarr73 · 04/03/2018 17:20

@Speakout u think you as adults have that choice.The ops kids dont and i think that the difference.

StealthNinjaMum · 04/03/2018 17:20

Yuk. That's disgusting. I give my dds small portions and allow them to have more if they want it. To put everyone's stuff back in a bowl and reheat is beyond grim.

LadyintheRadiator · 04/03/2018 17:24

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Trooperslane2 · 04/03/2018 17:31

Would be weird not to.

Niceandwarmandhot · 04/03/2018 17:56

Envy NOT envy

LemonysSnicket · 04/03/2018 18:18

I wouldn’t put half eaten bits in but would put food I hadn’t eaten for dinner back. Maybe not lunch as it’s been in refrigerated all day?

Aprilmightmemynewname · 04/03/2018 20:54

All the saliva has started to break down the food you have mixed together. I feel queasy thinking about it tbh.

mynameisLuca · 04/03/2018 20:58

All the saliva has started to break down the food you have mixed together

Complete bollocks. Do you spit all over the food on your plate you haven't eaten?

bluebells1 · 04/03/2018 21:00

This reminds me of a nigella show where she empties the leftover wine from people's glasses into a ziplock to freeze for cooking. It was grim and made me switch off the Telly.

Niceandwarmandhot · 04/03/2018 21:00

Luca - if you put the fork in and out of your mouth and back into the food on the plate, some saliva will get on there. That's why I can't even bear my own leftovers!!! The thought of mingling 4 people's makes me want to vomit.

I think it started when I was a child - occasionally we would get "angel delight" for pudding, but my brother didn't really like it. I would be offered his leftover pudding and the sight of it all stirred up with the same spoon that had been in his gob made me feel ill!

Whatshallidonowpeople · 04/03/2018 21:02

Disgusting. If it has saliva in it it will start to digest. Chuck it and dish up less next time

mynameisLuca · 04/03/2018 21:03

Luca - if you put the fork in and out of your mouth and back into the food on the plate, some saliva will get on there

Not with pasta, you're hardly sticking your fork into all the pieces you haven't eaten.
Squemish wastrels.

IHaveBrilloHair · 04/03/2018 21:08

No, I really wouldn't do that, and I've been in a heat or eat position.
You serve very small portions and then give a little extra.

SimplyJaded · 04/03/2018 21:22

Squemish wastrels 😂 This.

I do it/have done it op.

In a large tub of pasta that's about to be frozen, any saliva germs will be icicles before they have chance to go forth and multiply...and will be blasted to death when you reheat the pasta to piping hot level.

Dh is the most annoyingly OTT food thrower outer I know. Salad cream open a month - binned. Covered leftovers in the fridge - 24 hours and binned 😡 He's ridiculous yet even he's done this.

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