To not understand people that dont eat leftovers?

[Eliza9917]

I've seen a lot of people say this, and wondered why? What could eating leftovers possibly do to you? Is it a fear of poverty in some way?

My sister knew a girl that would roast a chicken for Sunday dinner and only eat the breasts and throw the rest away. To me, that's madness, I'd get at least 2-3 dinners and a soup out of a large chicken.

I'm not taking food away from anyone by not using mine up. You know that's true stop making stupid arguments.

People aren't not going to starve because I throw away a chicken instead of eating it. There's no need for anyone to starve in this country.

There is no need for people to starve, but they are.

And like I have already said, leftovers are rare in this house anyway, we are a big family, with animals so not much goes to waste but I just can't stand how other people care about what other people do so much. Get a life!

And why is that?

Mabel, you sound as though you've not read too much about the current state of the food supply chain - perhaps you should.

As for being grabby and tight - I guess it depends on the company you keep. In our family, not taking food that would otherwise be wasted would be considered rude/ungracious.

because it's grabby and makes you look tight, and if you think it doesn't then you're deluding yourself.

i don't think we move in the same circles Mabel

@mabelstanley why is it embarrassing to take food that would otherwise go to waste? Surely it is more embarrassing to be so profligate that you throw away good edible food rather than use it or give it away.

I'm not suggesting digging through the bins, but if a large sunday roast has been made and there are slices of good meat that haven't been used why wouldn't you make sure it was used? If you can't/won't use it yourself then why not offer it to your guests or family members rather than bin it?

I don't get it. What is the problem?

Some people are just fucking weird.........

Of course no-one can eat your wasted chicken, but look at the bigger picture FFS.

Chicken used to be a luxury, people would literally only have it once or twice a year because it was so expensive and they would eat every last scrap. Now it's so cheap, due to inhumane farming practices, that people have it more than once a week and don't even value that chicken's life.

HM The Queen is famously frugal. Would you call her 'embarrassing'?

From: www.express.co.uk/news/royal/771021/queen-elizabeth-ii-cheap-heater-buckingham-palace-frugal-saver

'she once sent back a lemon that had been served as a garnish, saying that it could be used again by the kitchen' and 'Phil Dampier, co-author of What’s In The Queen’s Handbag And Other Royal Secrets, says: “Very often when she’s at home she’ll be happy to have leftovers'.

Of course no-one can eat your wasted chicken, but look at the bigger picture FFS.

Actually the OP posted an app where you can indeed share your oversupply of leftovers.

Mabel,#

As I said before:

IF you throw food away AND BUY NO MORE THAN SOMEONE WHO USES ALL OF THEIR FOOD then you do not affect anyone else.

If, on the other hand, you buy more new food because you don't eat all the food you already have, of course you are contributing to a present or future lack of food for someone else - that food can't be created twice, so by you having to buy / eat it, someone else can't (or they suffer because their forest was chopped down to clear the ground for the grain to be grown to feed the animal whose meat you bought - not to mention all the other 'indirect' but still negative effects)

Mabel is wilfully ignorant of the problems surrounding the food supply in the country, so there's not much point in arguing with her.

If you don't use food up, inevitably you'll be buying more, therefore higher consumption, particularly bad for things like meat, more land is needed to grow it, and if everyone continues like that we end up killing off thousands of animal and plant species and eventually starving ourselves.

My parents (who were born in WW2) and live with us are actually terribly wasteful, perhaps unusual for their generation. I was brought up in the 80s on convenience food and they can't really cook, just heat things up, which is why I taught myself to cook when I realised real food made with ingredients tasted much nicer. I have to point out that there is fresh food to be used up in the fridge, and leftovers, and suggest what they might do with them, otherwise they will just get tins or frozen stuff out and use it. And it's not their age, they have always been like that. I'm not expecting them to change habits at their age or control what they eat but trying to reduce food waste and shopping bills.

It’s the waste of life that gets me about food waste. I eat meat but I’m well aware of where it comes from.
An animal has been slaughtered to give you that meat. It may have been kept in cruel conditions (“free range” chicken farms are often just warehouses with a floor full of animals), hunted down in the wild (I’ve cooked and eaten wild boar given by a neighbour) or the sorry end of a beautiful life (line caught salmon for example).

Doesn’t that deserve your respect? To be consumed with care and attention to avoid waste?

Missed the comment about taking leftovers embarrassing. 😂

Sorry, Hyacinth Bucket.

I have a family member who is staggeringly wasteful with food, never uses anything up. I was at her house one day when her food shop was delivered, and before she put it away, she actually stood in front of her fridge with a bin bag and threw away nearly everything, perfectly good salad stuff, chicken that was in date, fruit and veggies, half a block of cheddar, just because she had had new "fresh" stuff delivered.
We often have leftovers and are big fans of "user upper" meals, soup, risotto, quiche etc.

It's the waste of money that bothers me. Throwing away some meat that is now past its use by date because you cooked fish fingers instead. Next time I'll just throw a tenner in the bin, shall I?

As someone who is a small farmer, I'm not supplying the supermarkets, just local markets and veg boxes type thing. It's scary to see how disconnected people have become from the food process, it's honestly madness to take perfectly good food, a whole chicken minus the breasts, bacon that's still good etc and dump it in the bin, what a sad state of wastefulness and to proclaim it so proudly.

Just a very depressing attitude to the food process, to the animals (as Sgtmajormummy the very least that can be done is to eat all the parts you bought) food wastage and also your just throwing your money down the drain too.

I understand that some people like only breast meat. I like a mix but am more than happy to settle for leg meat to stay out of the dramas on Christmas Day. It also lasts better when put back into the oven on a plate to reheat after all the to-ing and fro-ing.

I also understand why people want to cook a whole turkey at Christmas. It's the sense of occasion and flavour that you can't get with a turkey crown or worse - roast chicken pieces.

But I don't understand why you wouldn't choose to cook something else on Xmas Day if there are only two or four of you like a chicken, a pork loin or if you're really rich - a rib of beef. And there are plenty enough left overs for sandwiches and cold meat with Boxing Day bubble and squeak and HP sauce.

But even if you love turkey, which I do, but can't contemplate the waste of throwing most of it in the bin, why wouldn't you wrap up the leftovers and give them to a grateful guest? Why would you throw them away?

pick me.

I agree with PP, I'm actually vegetarian but my family aren't so I buy and cook meat. I do feel conscious of leftovers especially when it is meat or fish. We are fortunate to never be hungry and eat naice food, chucking out perfectly good food is more embarrassing than taking leftovers IMO.

Zero waste shops are becoming more and more common, it's a beneficial step forward in my opinion but I feel like wasteful people probably aren't that forward thinking.

It's because people can't cook that things don't get used up. They don't look at a bit of ham that will be past its best tomorrow and think "I can stick that in some soup with peas."

I'm not taking food away from anyone by not using mine up.

Well, you are if you then buy yet more fresh food (and then waste half of that) because you aren't eating all the food you've already bought.

Resources are finite. The more we each individually use, the worse it will become for everyone, in the end. It isn't rocket science.

I have to say though I don't make my own stock and don't use the chicken carcass. Have tried it several times but find the results rather disgusting. We do eat the whole chicken between 6 of us though, as fortunately two of us like leg meat.

I cook mostly vegetarian meals now anyway, five out of seven.

This thread has illustrated very neatly that meat in this country is criminally underpriced.

Because it's grabby and makes you look tight, and if you think it doesn't then you're deluding yourself.

It only makes you look tight to people who are stupid cunts. I don't visit the home of anyone who's a stupid cunt, so problem solved.

Not for long. We might end up with rationing again yet.