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.

We buy a super large chicken normally around 2.8kg and have a yummy roast then pick all the meat off and it feeds us for a few lunches and 2-3 suppers plus we make stock. We make some gorgeous meals with it, ummmm yummy chicken risotto! They are not cheap as hey are huge chickens from the butcher but it goes a long way so works out at a reasonable price. With left over lamb we do a lovely lamb tagine with the left overs and with beef a yummy hoisin beef with egg fried rice. I love left overs as much as the original meal!

@MacarenaFerreiro there's also a fourth group of people who just don't fancy them. I'm in that group.

there's also a fourth group of people who just don't fancy them. I'm in that group.

Why wouldn't you fancy exactly the same food you had the day before?

I don’t tend to roast a chicken as none of us particularly like leg meat so I buy chicken breasts and toast.

That’s a strange-sounding meal

But how can you just not fancy something you've previously enjoyed? Doesn't make sense at all.

I can sort of get not wanting to have what you've had for dinner the night before as leftovers for lunch. Variety is the spice of life and all that. But freeze it and use it again at a later date rather than chuck it, surely?

My 6.5 year old was formula fed from day 3 of his life and has never been sick ever at all so I not convinced by the breastfeeding argument.

That’s what you took from my post?

It was that it’s not hard to get your head around safe storage of anything from breast milk to meat and avoid making people ill (to someone who worried about breastmilk storage.). It wasn’t about BM v formula.

I love left overs as much as the original meal!

Often more so.

Some of my favourite meals are left over dependent. Like bubble and squeak. Or chicken pie (I'd never cook chicken specially for a pie).

We rarely eat left overs. There rarely are any leftovers! I prepare food to be eaten at that meal and so do the correct amount to feed us. I know how much will get eaten and don't make extra. I am veggie so don't cook meat, perhaps that makes it easier.

I also don't like having lots of things open in the fridge, I find pre cooked food smells a bit & I don't find a smelly fridge pleasant.

I dont eat left overs, as dont like reheating food, more so with meat.

However I am very sensible when it comes to portion control, so left overs are very few.

Boiled gammon plus sides Christmas Eve Tea
Roast Chicken plus sides Christmas Day Lunch
Cold Gammon and cold roast chicken with sides Christmas Tea
Gammon, Chicken etc etc with salad and baked potatoes Boxing Day

Christmas Soup made from left over veg, some gammon and the chicken carcass, left over stuffing and bread sauce used to thicken it (no bubble and squeak unfortunately) 27 Dec

Pizza to use up gifted vouchers 28 Dec (left overs in fridge) 28 Dec
Thai Chicken freshly made 29 Dec
Gammon and leek pie with cheese and onion mashed potatoes made from last of the gammon 30 Dec

Just the last of the cheese and biscuits to go. Oh and the sweet biscuits, cherry chocolates, orange chocolate and After Eights too.

No leftovers ? The very thought makes me want to weep !

Why would you fancy something you've just eaten the day before I don't want the same thing 2 days in a row. Anyway, it doesn't taste the same reheated

Or cold

@E20mom So if you make a Lasagne and there's some left after you've finished yours, you'll throw the rest away??? It hasn't suddenly changed taste in 5/10 mins!

I bet you'll happily eat an M&S ready meal or an airplane meal?!

Gunpowder - amazing invention called the freezer. Pop stuff in there and it keeps for months. Then you can use this other invention called a hob, oven or microwave to make it hot!

We in this country are SO wasteful with food and it's criminal.

I don't want the same thing 2 days in a row.

So you freeze or change it up.

Left over roast chicken gets used up in a curry/risotto/pasta sauce/pie/stir fry.

What's your issue with that?

We in this country are SO wasteful with food and it's criminal.

I'm actually appalled by what I'm reading on this thread.

Love leftovers. My turkey made lovely sandwiches and a curry .
I made vegetable soup with my leftover Christmas veg which I've frozen to take to work next week .
I'm hopefully going to have beef sandwich's tomorrow with today's leftover beef . I still throw some food I hate waste but I try and freeze meat . I go mad at dh as he buys ham but it goes out of date and end up binning.

For me it depends on the food. I hate reheated broccoli and cauliflower to me they taste like grass😷. Same with pizza I think it's horrible reheated. But mashed potato I love reheated and pasta is always pretty good as well. Not keen on reheated meat but that's because I was brought up veggie and struggle to eat meat now anyway!

This thread is interesting.

I never knew there were people who didn't eat leftovers for fear of looking poor.

How sad and pathetic to waste food just to prove you can afford to.

Yuk.

I can't bear leftovers, I never have, the idea of eating pizza cold or even reheated makes me sick.

Not that I ever have much leftover anyway, only DD2 and me in the house now, and I usually cook just what I know we can both manage. I never batch cook and freeze meals either, as I can't bear reheated food either.

I do have some issues with food and eating though, foods mustn't touch each other on my plate, and while eating I only take a forkful of each kind of food at a time, I never mix them together.

I don't eat them much because there is 7 of us and never enough for a full meal and very little space in the fridge or freezer to store.

I will always eat left over lasagne the next day but there is never enough left over for everyone. I would never have enough meat left over to make another meal out of it the next day. With the exception of Xmas Turkey.

I don't batch cook either because of lack of space to store it.

@MacarenaFerreiro thanks for the tip, wow I'll have to google those contraptions 😂 nah sorry but defrosted previously cooked food depresses me a little as I know it's not going to taste good. It I very rarely have food left over anyway!

The only reason we're so wasteful in this country is because food is so cheap. We'd change our tune if food took up, say, 70% of our disposable income.

I often cook extra in the evening so I can bring some for lunch at work - only things that can be eaten cold though. Other than things like a roast chicken, which we would use for risotto or curry the next day, we don’t tend to have proper leftovers.

@GunpowderGelatine Why would anyone leave the food out?!? It goes into the fridge and chilled - just like ready meals/meals from places like Wetherspoons etc. They are all Pre-prepared, chilled and re-heated when served