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.

Delicious ... yummy ... gorgeous ... etc

We eat them. But we are careful to store leftovers in the fridge in cornered containers and use as soon as possible. We occasionally save rice but only if cooling and storing instantly, not after sitting it at the table. I definitely use all the chicken.

At the moment there is a piece of cooked cod and tarka dhal in our fridge, as well as a whole dinner which our youngest DS didn't want at dinner time yesterday.

I've saved food like pasta off my plate before if I've left a lot for lunch the next day, I'm not pushing it around the plate or licking each piece! Its in the same state whether i ate it then or the next day!

For me, that is like double dipping. I am a bit ick about it, in all honesty. It's irrational really, as it's all family bacteria being shared around. Not keen on food scraping version of leftovers.

My mother won't eat leftovers because that's what she had to do when she was poor growing up. It's weird - you'd think she'd have learnt the value of money but it's her hang up. My point of view is that I have put effort into making food and that effort is the thing i value.

I saved food that I've left on my plate and eaten it the next day. I have also done the same with food left on DH's plate. If it's enough for a meal or snack why would I throw it away?

I don’t actually have a problem with food on your plate being saved for another day. But we only tend to serve ourselves what we will eat and leftovers are still in dishes.

“I don't really see the logic in calling things leftovers when it is actually batch cooking ”

Many of those who say they don’t like leftover are including this definition of batch cooking

Will any of the "leftovers? Ooh, never!" camp please answer my previous question about leftover ?

I can't imagine that any rightminded MNers can justify throwing that out

Also, I noticed that the chefs on Saturday Kitchen yesterday and Sunday Brunch today made delicious looking dishes from leftovers.

Cake is in the same category as bread and cheese though - you slice bits off it and apparently it lasts days. Or do you mean cake bits left on your plate, like a sad bit of marzipan peeled off the xmas cake, or a half eaten profiterole? Yeah - I bin that to be honest. Not good for the dog's teeth.

Of course I don't mean the plate crumbs, but what's the difference between eating cake another day but not eating a bit of a dinner dish another day?

I get the revulsion over double dipping if the waiter is going round at a party but DH and I double dipped various things the other night. I mean food at dinner. It's not the same thing, is it? Or is it?

I am a bit squeamish about it. It is a bit phobic. It's the time afterwards. So ... double dipping with my family - chips n dip for instance - no probs. But leaving, packing up, then eating the next day, food that has had contact with saliva, I am a bit bleurgh about. It's the whole 'plate scrapings' (aka leftovers) thing for me - that contact with saliva via cutlery, or mouth.

Not yummy, gorgeous or delish.

I get the revulsion over double dipping if the waiter is going round at a party but DH and I double dipped various things the other night. I mean food at dinner. It's not the same thing, is it? Or is it?

Of course. I've shared my toothbrush with my husband many times in our 20 years together (under duress).

Cake is in the same category as bread and cheese though - you slice bits off it and apparently it lasts days.

Unless, of course, someone takes a bit of the cake with a fork at various points throughout the day.

Cake is in the same category as bread and cheese though - you slice bits off it and apparently it lasts days So, cake (bread or cheese) is the same as a joint of meat, tray of lasagna or dish of curry then.

To me, leftovers are things left over in the main serving dish or pan after everyone has been served. I would always chill or freeze those and use them another time. Scraping things off people's plates and re-using them is a definite no no.

To me, leftovers are things left over in the main serving dish or pan after everyone has been served. I would always chill or freeze those and use them another time. Scraping things off people's plates and re-using them is a definite no no.

Except for the dog! Think of the dog!

My husband and I save our kids' plates if they've been particularly wasteful - he's a scavenge. He fished a piece of KFC chicken out of the bin just last week on the basis that it was on top. He can't abide any KFC waste under any circumstances.

"Unless, of course, someone takes a bit of the cake with a fork at various points throughout the day"
Omg seriously, who abuses cake like that?? Some of you are savages!

Yep, for me that's the same as a joint of meat etc. Except we usually just eat whatever we cook, unless I make something massive (eg a big joint)

I was thinking more like the people I know who scrape off the plate leftovers and make fritters for the next day.

Thanks BarbaraofSevillle ... Though they tend to turn their noses up at such programmes.

Last weekend I discovered a Sainsbury's 'Taste The Difference' Christmas Pud in the cupboard that was 'best before March 2017'. I steamed it for the suggested time, and It was quite delicious. Fruity and nutty but not too sweet..

AlaskanOilBaron I've let my husband use my toothbrush in an emergency (it's always him that forgets) but I couldn't use it afterwards. I never said but I rubbed my teeth with toothpaste and scrubbed with a towel. I never said because he'd be hurt.

I've just had a mental image of using someone else's dental floss and that's making me feel queasy.

It's silly what turns your stomach when you are intimately involved. We drink from the same wine glass at home because they are big and what's the point of washing up two? But when my friend heard we did that I could tell we went down several rungs in her estimation.

I'd also happily eat a half-eaten roast potato from his plate. Even if it had his toothmarks in it.

The dental floss thing was just a random thought. I would no more consider doing that than wiping my bum with someone's used toilet paper. Or my own, for that matter

Except for the dog! Think of the dog!

In this house it's the cats! Don't forget the cats

My cat was a dustbin but my friend's cat, who was a stray who was literally eating out of dustbins, has become so fussy that she turns up her nose at the poshest food. So she definitely wouldn't eat leftovers.

My friend was always giving me tins of really expensive food that her one had refused. She keeps my friend as her devoted slave .

My husband and I save our kids' plates if they've been particularly wasteful - he's a scavenge. He fished a piece of KFC chicken out of the bin just last week on the basis that it was on top. He can't abide any KFC waste under any circumstances

I struggle to understand why anyone would want to anything from KFC in their face at all. Foul stuff.