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.

I wouldn't want the same meal twice, never mind three times in a week. Leftovers are boxed up and frozen for another day when I don't have time to cook or I can't be bothered. I also batch cook and there are always boxes of bolognese, chilli, curry, etc to feed us all in the freezer.
There are 3 of us in the house and most recipes are for 4 so leftovers are the norm. Every so often our meal is "freezer boxes" and someone will have pasta bake, another will have lasagne and the third will have cottage pie (useful for the nights I am home long enough to change from my work clothes into my volunteering uniform). They are also useful if DH and I are away and DD doesn't feel up to cooking herself a meal.

I can’t imagine soup made from leftovers would be that nice?

Just freeze it.
I wouldnt want to just eat left overs all the time.

I had to has a child and it made me ill.
Soup made from left overs dont sound tasty tbh.
I get why he gets take out.

The question is, why is this grown man not making his own food if he’s not happy.

Because he may get told off for not eating the leftovers thats been in the fridge for a week.

But if he'd prefer to have a takeaway later, and you're going to the takeaway anyway, why not just pick him up a takeaway and take it home with you?

Or if the child at home needs to eat earlier, then DH can order a takeaway for the two of them at home, if there's nothing suitable at home to feed the child with.

If eating the leftovers is important to you, then you can eat them either later on this evening instead of your takeaway or for lunch/dinner tomorrow. If you're not prepared to eat them up yourself, you can't dictate that someone else has to.

Honestly, I really wouldn't want to eat the same meal on 3 consecutive days (and I don't think I'd ever want to eat soup made from 2 day old leftover curry)

I don’t mind having the same meal more than twice in a row, but I wouldn’t expect others to, unless there was no real choice.

Why wouldn't you freeze it

But good animals get fed

My ex expected me to eat leaftovers.
It was disgusting at the end of the week any leftovers left he would make something else with it tbh it was disgusting.
I couldent stomach it in the end same food over and over.
Hes an ex now.

I freeze some leftovers myself but not loads the rest goes in the bin.
As a child my parents wear the same i was pleased to have school meals because it wasnt leftovers from something we had already eaten that week.
I dont mind some that i can freeze and save but i would never want anyone or expect anyone to eat leftovers all the time.
I just cant stomach it.

Why can't the two people getting a takeaway bring home enough for everyone, and you just leave the leftovers for tomorrow?

I'm a grown woman and I wouldn't make my own food unless desperate. And yes, I would complain if I had to eat the same leftovers twice in a week. Sometimes even once.

My OH is at home all day and likes cooking. We each have assigned tasks, so if he wasn't cooking he'd be organising takeaway/delivery because that's his role, and I wouldn't do his stuff in the same way he wouldn't do mine.

Maybe if the OH likes cooking more than the OP, they could take over. If they don't, it could be worth getting the food boxes delivered, or even premade meals.

As a one off it’s fine but I wouldn’t want to eat it 3 times in a week on a regular.

I would try making less or making 2 different meals with similar ingredients.
You could even freeze it and have it the following week.

I assume you’re a SAHP or only work PT which is why the cooking falls to you.

I would have an evening a week where it’s frozen food like chips and fish fingers or pizza.
Just shove it in the oven and it’s basically done by the time you’ve got changed/had a cup of tea etc.

Well, of course, but why would anybody heat up the whole tupperware??

Not sure the neighbours will be happy she's attracting the foxes.

I'm really surprised at the number of people who won't eat the same meal three days running (not even for every meal). People saying they don't like 'leftovers', but OP's using the wrong term. These are not leftovers, but just more portions of the same food prepared earlier. Something left over is unplanned and is a totally different thing.

Maybe you're just making too much of the same meal?

I wouldn't want to eat the same meal (or versions of) 3 times in one week.

This is why i don't eat leftovers for lunch.

I do the same dinner 2 days in a row (e.g., a curry), and have something different for lunch (e.g., a salad).

But then I'm not someone who needs a different meal everyday - and I generally don't find my own home cooked food exciting, even if it was a different meal everyday.

But why then not reducing the recipe? Or freezing what is not used?

I can understand using cooked chicken/meat as it's difficult to freeze and can be used in lots of different recipes afterwards. But a curry? Tomato based pasta sauces? Perfectly freezable.

I wouldn't want to eat the same dish several times in a row.

DH eats what I cook for him with gratitude, no matter what it is. I can't fathom what I would say to a DH who complained about the food I've prepared.

We both take some to work for lunch the next day, any leftovers we freeze. Three days is too much. Don’t make so much then.

It’s not the food obviously, it’s about not wanting to eat the same food three days in a row.

YANBU

We eat leftovers here until they're all eaten. When we get down to bare bones, I put whatever it is into some sort of pastry - samosas, empanadas, pie, or cook more pasta or rice or mash to go with whatever it is.

I cook twice a week, max.

That's fine; you're not expecting someone else to cook something new and exciting for you.

I'd guess that if this man was faced with the 24/7/365 task of planning, shopping for, and cooking meals for the whole family he'd soon be suggesting that it was perfectly reasonable to eat leftovers three times a week.

By the same token, no adult should be expected to operate a short order kitchen unless it's her paid job.

Surely if there is enough for another meal then it’s worth freezing.

I wouldn’t eat the same thing 3 times a week unless some one else was cooking in which case I politely thank them.