I can’t physically eat leftovers

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I’m not sure if it’s just me, but I physically cannot force myself to eat leftovers.

I always have the best intentions of meal prepping/cooking more for lunches and then when it gets down to actually eating that stuff it turns my stomach. I end up having to give extra to DH.

Does anyone else get this or am I completely U and weird?!

The only thing that's fucked up here is the deliberate ignorance. Seriously. RTFT. People have posted about why they can't eat leftover. It's not a luxury though, why would it be? I have a disability and there is fuckity fuck all luxurious about the restrictions it gives me.

Goodness this really inflamed you!

Some people might be unable to eat leftovers due to a disability or illness. Other people seem to have just decided leftovers 'give them the ick'. I don't think posters are intending to criticise those with a disability or illness.

I'm like this about loads of foods.
Sandwiches are a huge one, I can't eat pre made ones, and I can only really eat fresh ones made by me, my Husband or my Mum.
I really struggle to eat fresh food from different supermarkets and to my usual ones. Even if it's a food I really like. It makes me feel nauseous.

Read the thread. It's definitely happening.

Not quite as an extreme reaction as yours, but I just can't face the same meal that I had for tea as my dinner the next day. It's just the fact I don't want that meal again so soon. Heaven knows how people ear the same meal over 3 or 4 consecutive days... I'm always intrigued in work when people turn up with a tub of mashed up food and declare it's leftovers from yesterdays roast. I love a roast too Thankfully I cook mostly what we eat and as a family we don't generate a lot of leftovers.

I left out a word - cold. I hate the texture of cold food. Lasagne cold - like a big solid wedge you can slice through like a cake. And the smell of cold food absolutely is different to hot food.

i also can’t abide the smell of meat cooking. But I’m ok with it once it’s cooked - smell completely changes.

Exactly this. It gives me such a cosy feeling, knowing there's a dinner in the fridge and all I have to do is heat it up.

I would love to be able to afford to turn my nose up at and waste perfectly good food just because it was cooked the day before. I’m sure millions of other people also wish they were in that position.

I'm convinced that food that has been cooked, frozen and thawed never tastes as nice as it did before it was frozen. I completely gave up on batch cooking for that reason.

But I love leftovers. Chilli, casseroles etc always taste nicer the second day imo, leftover potatoes, greens and other veg make lovely bubble and squeak, and I love finding a few cold roast potatoes in the fridge.

Weird
Precious
Get a grip

No wonder people like me who are autistic struggle in this world.

I'd love to be able to eat leftovers, it would make my life a lot easier as I'm ill in bed a lot. Ironically leftovers make me ill as fermented food & aged food such as mature cheese, sauerkraut, pickles, sourdough bread, aged meats, alcohol, give me a migraine so severe it's impossible to be certain I'm not having a stroke (it happened to a relative, they were fortunate to survive). Even just a bowl of day old stew or curry that wasn't quickly cooled & refrigerated immediately after cooking will give me a migraine, I suffer from a rare type that's notoriously difficult to control & it does look like I'm having a stroke. I can't eat loads of foods, & loads more in only very limited amounts because they naturally have a chemical called tyramine which is a migraine trigger, it also develops when foods are left to age so is present naturally in many foods. There are other chemical triggers too - histamine, caffeine, artificial sweeteners, sulphites, nitrites & nitrates. And others. Cooking is a PITA TBH. And I still get frequent attacks anyway.

I do understand that some people have different levels of tolerance for things, but it does annoy me when people refuse to eat leftovers. Unless there's a MH issue or physical illness involved I do think it's rather a luxury to refuse to eat leftovers or pre-prepared food.

From my point of view, I batch cook things like spag bol, chilli, curry but I wouldn't be able to eat left over veg or roast potatoes from a Sunday lunch that's warmed up. I'd just cook new

Wow okay, didn’t expect so many heated responses. To clarify some things:

Nothing gets wasted in this house! If I cook larger portions it’s for dinner and two lunches which my husband then has two days in a row. Nothing gets thrown away and I am not wasteful at all.

Secondly, batch cooking has the same effect on me (makes me feel nauseous) so whilst I love the idea of reframing it just doesn’t work.

In terms of childhood experiences, we actually grew up on ready meals for dinners as DM was extremely unwell and unable to cook so it’s not that I had a bad experience with leftovers in the past - I’ve just never had very good food experiences I guess.

For those calling me and others precious or whatever, I appreciate your opinions but as has been mentioned a lot throughout this thread it seems as though this may boil down to sensory issues for a lot of us so please be a bit kinder.

Thanks all

I get ick about certain foods or food situations and it's not logical but neither am I being precious. It's not a voluntary reaction but it is getting worse the older I get.

I can't do food that other people have touched unless it's a restaurant or cafe or takeaway or a select few people that my brain has decided are safe.

It's embarrassing and I hate it but I can't get past it.

Things aren't always just a case of being precious. I can't chew it without gipping. It's awful. And I feel rude & ungrateful.

So, I get the OP. It's just not logical.

This is a rather heightened response.

I’m eating leftover veggie chilli tonight. I always feel it tastes better as a leftover. I had it with rice when I made it first. Tonight I’m having it with a jacket potato - could changing it up help?

Is it the term leftovers that could be maybe turning your stomach? Maybe if you looked at it as a new portion (like when bulk making food) you may feel different about it?

OMG 😂LOL hun. SO embarrassing! I really did want to stop wasting that milk though so I did stop overpouring. Yay me!

I've changed a lot in the past 4 months, really reduced all my waste. Realised how lucky I am. oh shit no, that was 4 years ago wasn't it?

To be fair responses were made before OP mentioned the potential ASD!!! If that has been in the OP then I am sure the responses would have been a lot different. I was going off the assumption that there was nothing like that involved...

famagusta · Today 11:35
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in September 2020 you said you had been with your partner 5 months and was about to meet his child for the first time??
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famagusta · Today 11:36
Ignore me!!!! Wrong poster

@famagusta that was a bit embarrassing for you! But stalking is so fun isn't it?

@LuckyAmy1986

Some were but many responses were posted both after OP mentioned autism and after several autistic posters said they had food issues too.

Oh didn't mean to italic there

I wouldn't normally do this. I'd usually report and let MNHQ handle it but this is important and it seems I'm not the only one who has noticed.

I've just reported Famagusta for following this OP around and bringing up irrelevant things from another thread. I reported Famagusta yesterday for the same thing with a different poster who seemed equally blameless.

I'm not a stalker. I just noticed Famagjusta's name and thought it was mean.

I expect MNHQ to delete this and that's right. But I want other people to see it and mostly I want to give @famagusta the opportunity to explain.

Sorry for the confusion with my above post. | meant to quote @LuckyAmy1986