Do you eat leftovers or are you delicate and like to eat fresh new food everyday?

[Anonymous]

Im not speaking on holidays ( this could apply too of course) but on any day of the year

I dont mind eating leftovers that still taste great and the food had not gone bad obviously even if it had remained a couple of days in the fridge. I believe there is a lot of hunger in this world for you to get rid of the food when there are people who has nothing to eat and getting rid of food is not the right thing to do and not wise enough.

I know people who do not like to eat leftovers they hate it not even if it is for the next day they like fresh new food they are very delicate and sensitive.

[HoraceB]

My wife & I have leftovers all the time. If you correctly store and re-heat stuff it tastes as good and sometimes better than it originally did. I frequently grill 15-20 chicken breasts, steak, and other food and we store it in the freezer for months. It tastes just as good re-heated as it did right off the grill.

When we go out to eat we almost always eat half our food. This not only saves calories but saves money, because you're effectively only paying half price. Most things from restaurants re-heat pretty well within a day or 2.

One of the hardest things to re-heat is fried foods. We discovered that re-heating them in an air fryer comes the closest to the original taste & texture, but fried foods are the only slight exception.

[jennifer_bloom]

One thing I take pride in is that I try to waste as little as possible. I'm not perfect because I'm young and still learning how to manage and invest resources but I'm proud of what I've saved.

I purchased a cheese with an unknown flavour cause the colour of the cheese was hidden behind a bunch of outside decorations like nuts and spices and realized I did not like the cheese but instead of not eating it, I decided to use the fat in the cheese as a tool for aiding my absorption of vitamin B1 and vitamin B in its 8 or 9 forms. Since I was sick this week, I used over 10 times the recommended dosage of vitamin B and that meant 10 servings of fatty food a day to absorb the vitamin B. The servings of fat are not very big, maybe 200 calories at most or 40 or lower, but the fat helps me absorb my vitamins.

I know its cheaper to buy medicine but I don't take medicine unless I'm dying or forced to take it because I believe conventional medicine weakens the immune system.

[HoraceB]

How do you get the fat out of the cheese?

[jennifer_bloom]

@HoraceB I use fat to absorb my vitamins because my vitamins need fat to be absorbed and my vitamins help me burn fat too. Lost 9 pounds since the 20th using fat soluble weight loss vitamins.

[PBandJ_Nerd]

Yeah, I eat leftovers. I had eaten half beef & noodles and green bean casserole as a dinner. Plus, if you're really hungry why would you want to cook up more food? Leftovers is much easier.

[rigmarole]

I tend to eat left overs often. I don't have a big family to cook for that park it away... So pretty much everything I cook is going to lead to left overs. I eat the same thing typically several meals in a row and then cook something new when I finish it. If I just don't want to eat it the next meal for whatever reason I tend to freeze it and move on to the next dish. Then the following week if I don't feel like cooking I'll take out the frozen left overs and heat them up.

[rigmarole]

If what is left over is a simple ingredient I might use it to cook a different meal the next day. For example if I grill some chicken one night for dinner, I might shred it and cook it up with some onions and BBQ sauce for a shred BBQ chicken sandwich or turn the chicken into tarragon chicken salad with sliced almonds and cranberries the next day for a sandwich or to top a house salad. If I have left over potatoes I might cube them up and turn them into home fries and toss them in a breakfast skillet.

[Lliam]

I love leftovers when we have some. I even eat them cold out of the frig without bothering to heat them up. My wife would NEVER eat cold leftovers, though. LOL

[WhiteSteve]

I’m pretty delicate, lmao. I can do leftovers…. but I can’t just be like “throw it in the microwave”, it has to be done the long way.

Pro tip, contrary to what I JUST said though😂: you know how leftover sticky rice or Chinese fried rice is never quite as good reheated? The solution is actually simple. Put the rice in a bowl, clear a little spot in the middle, and put an ice cube in there. Then wrap the bowl tightly in plastic wrap, and pierce it with a fork a few times to make some vent holes. Put it in my old frenemy the microwave, and give it like 1 1/2 - 2 minutes. That will essentially re-steam the rice, and it will be restored to a lot closer to fresh quality👍

But besides a few things like beef stew, pea soup (maybe just stews and soups in general), most things aren’t the same reheated. And I’m wicked picky with FRESH food, so I’m real particular about anything left over. Air fryers have helped a bit since they came around, for stuff like pizza, wings…. all those things I shouldn’t really be eating in the first place, haha. But overall, I just like to cook fresh food every day.

[purplepoppy]

All the time, some food tastes better a few days old.

[Adventurer23]

I love leftovers and it's very rare I ever wind up throwing anything out. It's also a great way to not have to make another meal to save time, or when you want an off day and don't want to make one. I always enjoy leftovers. For lunch or dinner.

[7Phoenix7]

I eat leftovers. Why not? It's still delicious to me. Especially spaghetti..

[exitseven]

We eat leftovers a lot. I had some chicken drumsticks and spaghetti for lunch. I will be having leftover prime rib for supper along with mashed potatoes and gravy.

[sheikalana]

I can eat leftovers that have been cooked no longer than two days. My husband is very picky because he once got really bad food poisoning he won’t touch the food if is not fresh and new.

[Charliefretz329]

I don’t understand how people don’t eat leftovers. There are too many options. You can even make something new with them if you’re bored or freeze until you want to eat that dish again.


Meats can always be added to soup for instance.

[Joshydavid25]

Leftovers are the best really.. I love em.. Especially when it was a lot of food, and you still got some to easily go back to.

[ZiaCowel2000]

I eat leftovers. They don’t last too long, max is like 3 days.

[electromagnetic]

Leftover slap more than fresh food every time.

[dreamstar72]

A lot of the time the leftovers taste better the next day.

[ByronWolf]

Depends on what it is, typically yes though. But not for more than one day after it was originally made.

[LiamJHayden]

I'm delicate. lol not really, but except on weekends I know I am cooking for one so I plan my meals that way and rarely have leftovers.

[Crankor]

I only cook what I'll eat at that time. I used to make bigger portions to save but my life scheduling threw off when I was hungry at home

[milyjohn]

Leftovers all the way.

[Nikki1989]

I don't take that risk.

[BCRanger10]

We eat leftovers quite frequently.

[CrimsonAngel09]

I eat leftovers.

[tfan1]

Leftovers definitely 👍🙂

[Wise4myage]

Yes, leftovers are delicious.

[LavLavLuv]

I eat leftovers 🤷🏻‍♀️

[riverrat3]

Most time leftovers taste better