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AIBU?

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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...

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Niceandwarmandhot · 04/03/2018 21:23

Luca - you don't know that! Some people stir their fork through the sauce; others twirl spaghetti around the fork and drop some... no no no!! 🙈🙈

takingsmallsteps · 04/03/2018 21:25

Literally just did this. Baby didn't eat the lovingly prepared black bean and beetroot burger I made (because he refuses anything I make which takes any effort). There was loads left so I broke it into bits and put into a sandwich with hummus and cucumber for my lunch tomorrow. 😋

dantdmistedious · 04/03/2018 21:29

No I wouldn't. Plus reheated frozen pasta is surely minging?

LemonysSnicket · 04/03/2018 22:27

I take relatively clean clothes and put them back in the wardrobe ... that won’t make me sick if someone is about to come down with something and I ingest their germs.

LemonysSnicket · 04/03/2018 22:29

And the freezing wine thing is a good thing ... you can put it in sauces. I don’t know what that’s got to do with anything.

Itscolderoutside · 04/03/2018 22:47

No way would I do that. I'll happily use up out of date stuff, wonky veg and untouched leftovers. And I might even finish some leftovers from DC's plate at that same mealtime (but not the edge they have eaten from....so leave an inch of lasagne but eat the rest ). But saving food that has been touched by a fork, saliva etc is just rank. And then to mix it together, reheat it slightly, cool again and refreeze to be heated again makes my stomach turn. Your DC are old enough to be revolted by this and have said so. After that, I think it is think it is bordering on abusive to foist this on them when they have been clear about how they feel. But at least they will know to take smaller portions and finish it all next time.

SimplyJaded · 05/03/2018 02:45

reheated frozen pasta is surely minging?

There's a couple of comments along these lines. I always freeze pasta - either plain pasta as I have a habit of cooking it for the 5,000 or the remains of a meal like pasta bake. Or lasagne which is pasta sheets.

It always freezes and reheats fine - no difference in the pasta once reheated IME. I freeze anything I cook too much off, including pasta, noodles, spaghetti, rice. The only thing which really doesn't freeze well I find is cous cous.

JustMarriedAndLovingIt · 05/03/2018 03:07

That’s pretty gross OP. In the future, serve up a portion that is smaller than you think they will eat and say they can have more when finished. I wouldn’t want food that had come from someone else’s plate.

pasturesgreen · 05/03/2018 06:14

I'm really not squeamish, but...

You cooked the pasta bake, dished it up, scraped the leftovers back from the individual plates to the serving dish, mixed it all up, added cheese, reheated the whole thing, froze it and are now planning to defrost it and reheat it for the third time to eat next week? Bleurgh!

It's basic food hygiene, you don't cook something, then reheat, freeze and reheat again. Just make smaller portions next time.

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Therunecaster · 05/03/2018 07:36

Back to work today. I have brought a portion of the pasta for lunch. Will let you know how it tastes and how it reheats.

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Didntcomeheretofuckspiders · 05/03/2018 07:56

People are way too ‘hygeine’ conscious. Of course you would save any leftovers! Am genuinely curious as to what people thing might happen if you eat something that someone else’s (particularly a family member!) fork has touched!

mrsm43s · 05/03/2018 08:13

Eating/freezing "leftovers" from the serving dish- fine.
Eating/freezing plate scrapings covered in other people's saliva/seasonings- gross and unhygienic.

hotcrossbunsandtea · 05/03/2018 08:25

It gives me the heebie jeebies!

I'm happy to eat my own leftovers but I've seen how other people eat and I don't want leftover frozen pasta that other people have run their fork through! Spit gets on the fork, into the food, you scrape the plate to catch a meatball or a bit of sauce and that spit is spread everywhere!

Fine if it's your own but I wouldn't want to eat a meal that was a combination of four people's leftovers and spit - no matter how much cheese it had put on it - bleurgh!

Lethaldrizzle · 05/03/2018 09:10

Enjoy! Ignore all these germ phobes. As someone who's been doing it all my life and rarely gets ill i think I am living proof it's not unhygenic!

mumeeee · 05/03/2018 09:15

Sorry YABU. I wouldn't scrape leftovers from someone's plate to be served up again. Fine if it is the same person who left it to eat again but definitely not for someone else to eat.

Oysterbabe · 05/03/2018 09:34

Do those terrified of germs ever kiss their partner or children?

Hillarious · 05/03/2018 10:50

Golly. And we've not even mentioned tasting as you're cooking, and putting the same spoon back in again without washing it. What harm might I have caused over the years?

Dontfuckingsaycheese · 05/03/2018 11:39

Eughhhh who tastes the food with their stirring and cooking spoon then puts it back in - vile!!

I too am not a use-by date Nazi. Ds is eating a pie tonight with yesterday's date. I freeze leftovers. I refreeze meals made from leftovers. But expecting anyone to eat food that has been left on somebody else's plate and returned to a dish with other people's leftovers that have been left to cool, sat out, open to sneezes, coughs and other people's saliva.

YABU
They are certainly not BU.
It is minging to expect them to eat it :-(

SilverySurfer · 05/03/2018 11:47

Totally agree Dontfuckingsaycheese. As for tasting food whilst cooking, it takes seconds to wash a spoon under a hot tap and it's revolting to keep dipping in with the same spoon.

Honestly, I thought I was one of the more relaxed on here when it comes to germs etc but this thread takes it to a whole new level. Still, one good thing is we now know from whom to accept or turn down invitations to dinner

Peanutbuttercups21 · 05/03/2018 11:50

oyster, weirdly I do not group-snog all my family members no

I never snogged my kids

Sassydoughnut · 05/03/2018 11:50

I would not scrape food from numerous peoples plates and save it for later, that's pretty yuk. I would not give them so much to begin with and freeze the leftovers.
I would not expect other people to eat my scraps.

Sassydoughnut · 05/03/2018 11:55

I've just read that you have cooked it again is that safe if there's meat in it.?
Give them smaller portions next time and let them have more as they need it.
I can be pretty mining sometimes, but that's too much even for me, sorry😖

Sassydoughnut · 05/03/2018 11:56

*minging even

Oysterbabe · 05/03/2018 11:57

Well I have a slobbery toddler who loves to kiss me on the mouth.

Don't get me wrong, thrice cooked pasta wouldn't be for me, but I can't get worked up about the possibility of a tiny, tiny bit of transferance of saliver from fork to food. It's unlikely they forked through the uneaten food anyway.

Rosamund1 · 05/03/2018 12:01

You THINK they don’t smell. Clothes in a dirty basket end up smelling of dirty clothes.

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