To expect DH to eat leftovers twice in a week?

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DH changed his wfh days this week so is not collecting DD from her club tonight. Usually they get a takeaway on their way home, DS and I eat leftovers from the week. E.g. I made a curry on Tuesday which we all ate and DH took a portion for his lunch on Wednesday. I would normally turn the leftovers into a soup for DS and me to eat on a Thursday evening but today it will be DH and DS at home. DH doesn't think he should be expected to eat leftovers from the same meal twice in a week. I don't see the issue. What does everyone else do with leftovers?

YANBU - use up the food
YABU - it's too repetitive, and you shouldn't expect him to eat it.

Well, he is welcome to shop and cook. What's his problem?
Honestly, we never have enough food left to have the same meal three times in a row but I wouldn't have an issue with it, personally. Sometimes I cook something my partner is not keen on. He knows where the shop is...

If such an issue to him - he can freeze the 2nd portion for next week so he can rotate for different meals . HE will obviously will need to cook something this week to have instead )

or HE could batch cook a load of meals for the freezer to rotate at will.

food is there - if he choses not to eat the same thing - that’s fine / his choice - but he can solve the problem not you.

Just freeze it and give it to him another time

Well if he doesn't want it then he can cook something else surely

How big is this curry?

I often make something that lasts us four nights, or if we feel bored with that I’ll freeze it in portions for “freezer surprise” some other time.

To me that seems just a normal way of making sure we don’t waste food.

I would freeze it and have it in future. I wouldn't want to eat the same meal 3 times in a week, but I can be picky with food

I wouldn't want the same meal 3x a week unless I was skint and there was no other choice.

If there are no financial constraints then tell him to cook something else/order something and just freeze what is left.

We have leftovers probably twice a week, so Sunday’s dinner for Monday night and Thursday’s for Friday.

But I’d say it’s fine for him to prepare something fresh for everyone and you all can have the leftovers for lunch instead or freeze for the following week. The effort should be on him though to sort it all.

Is he being a dick about it, or was it a polite request, acknowledging that you are doing the work?

Does he cook? I wouldnt want the same meal 3 times in a week, but if I wasn't cooking I'd eat whatever was made for me.

Personally I hate eating leftovers, if I've had something on Monday I don't want to eat it again on Tuesday
Unless it's roast potatoes....

Eh why can he not cook ?

There's a lot about your family life that we don't know so it's quite hard to respond based on your op.

Why can he not cook something himself if he doesn't want same food twice in one week? Finances? Time?

I think a bigger issue is why half the family routinely get takeaway while the other half eat leftovers.

I wouldn't want to eat the same meal 3 times in one week either. But I'd just cook myself something different (are you telling DH he can't, as he has to eat the food so it's not wasted/there is nothing else?). We tend to freeze large quantities of leftovers so they can be eaten in a different week.

No, not asking about whether or not he should cook or shop.

Only asking about eating leftovers of the same meal more than once.

I don't see the point of wasting it, but it's not enough to bother freezing it.

Crikey, my family fight over the leftovers. Either taking them to work the next day or eating them for dinner the next day.

Obviously some things lend themselves to it more than others but since we changed out cooking habits years ago, we intentionally make more so there are leftovers for people the next day or so. Spag Bol, Lasagna, Curry etc. We honestly sometimes prefer them the next day.

Tbh I don’t like to eat the same thing three times in a week, which is why I usually freeze leftovers (apart from usually one lunch portion). I don’t think he’s BU. But I completely understand that you don’t have time to cook another meal from scratch for one.

Depending on timing and who’s around maybe one of you can just stick a pizza (or other low effort meal) in the oven.

I usually make double portions of meals and freeze half. We will have it at some point, but not the same week. Maybe three weeks later.

To be honest, if you had made me chicken curry on Tuesday night, and I'd taken it for lunch on Wednesday, I'm fucked if I'd want it for tea, again, on Thursday. It's very boring.

The pp who eats the same meal four nights on the trot is unusual. Very few people actually want the same meal every night.

@redskydarknight its the only practical way to feed DD so she's in bed at a sensible time. Really not an issue!
I'm not telling DH he can't have something else, I just assumed he'd eat what I would have eaten had I been home, so hadn't got "extra" food in.

I think it’s fine for him to not want to eat the same meal three times in one week. If he’s happy to source something else that wouldn’t be an issue for me.

I don't mind leftovers but I wouldn't enjoy eating curry on Tuesday night, Wednesday lunch and then have it again as soup on Thursday evening .
To me curry is a meal with one dominant flavour and it would be too much .
Also there's no way I would fancy curry made into soup.
Or have I misunderstood that ?
This isn't a reverse is it ?

I wouldn't want to eat the same meal three times on a regular basis but for one week nah, get over it.

If it’s something that tastes good as leftover eg curry then he is being unreasonable.

If the leftovers have been used in 2 different meals then he is being unreasonable. Eg roast chicken then leftover meat used in a ramen and wraps on the next 2 days

Can the leftovers be adapted so it’s not exactly the same ?

I don't see the point of wasting it, but it's not enough to bother freezing it

It's not that much of a bother to just stick it in freezer surely? I wouldn't mind same meal twice, but maybe not 3 times to be honest