Do you eat all your leftovers?

I either pack the leftovers up for my husband to eat for his lunch or one of my kids will eat them before the next morning. That is the advantage in having 3 teenage boys. There are never leftovers for too long. If I make something like a turkey where there is a lot of meat leftover, I will freeze the rest of the meat and use it later for another dinner.

Well, it used to be that we keep the leftovers for lunch the next day. However, we subsequently found that nobody was really excited about leftovers. And so, we cook just enough now. We eat everything that is cooked. The bad thing is that the resident cook finds it hard to gauge the portions and despites years, the portions are always too large. That means you eat more than you need and with all the side effects.

My husband usually eats our left overs during lunch the next day however, if there's enough, I'll tell him not to eat it so we can make another dinner out of it the following night or I'll put it in the freezer for another day's meal. We throw some things out but not much thanks to hubby.

I eat most of our leftovers that my family cooks but yea of course. My family we do not believe in just wasting food. That is the way my mom and grandma raised me. We never believe in just throwing away food. You have families, young children. You have people who do not have no food at all, and we complain about it, plus we just throw away food for no reason. I mean how crazy is that.

Im a leftover fanatic lol..im always throwing left overs into a large frying pan..with a little dab of butter...and making an `everything` bubble and squeak!!! Hubby is used to it now!! Left over gravy is so good used in soup .

I can't say we eat all our leftovers. But we also don't cook alot to be leftover. Mostly if we have extra it is enough to finish off the next day. Sometimes we just give it to the dogs if it isn't much. The only hint I have with using leftovers is what to do with mashed potatoes. Look up a recipe name "Potato Cakes" Usually it takes day old mashed potatoes and you mix in a bit of flour and spices and some milk I think and you can put cheese and bacon or anything in the middle of the two patties of the mixture and yum! Oh, you fry it up of course!

Alot of the time I have a day where I just warm up the leftovers from the past 3 days and have a clean up day. My family doesn't even buck it. They race to the table so they get the first pick of everything.

with the poverty hitting our economy and a lot of families who barely have food to eat in the table it is necessary to consume all the food we cook and avoid left overs as much as possible, we can do that by carefully planning what food to prepare for our family, we need to know what they like to eat so as to avoid wasting our effort and feeding the garbage truck. in our house as much as possible we avoid cooking too much food and prepare only what we think is enough for us in a particular day. its really hard when we cook too much and left with leftovers in the fridge, chances are we would end up throwing them the other day since most of us hate to eat left overs.

I am guilty of not eating leftovers too. I can barely afford to keep food on the table but when it comes down to eating the same thing over and over again I just can't do it. Chili is about the only food that I can eat as a left over.

Hi there... Yes sure, we eat our leftovers, especially from the night before, and we usually just throw them in an omelette, or have it on toast, there are many ways to use up lefties... Anything over 2 days, belongs to our dog... Have a great day...

Hi TriciaW, I was raised at a time when there was barely enough food for everyone in the family, so I never throw away food. It often bothers me when I see people throw out a lot of good food that could be reheated. I guess I really don't have any hints to share. Blessings.

I do try to use up all my leftovers but when it comes to things like meat I toss after a few days as I feel that a doctor bill because I became ill from eating meat that was too long in the fridge is more costly than that of tossing left over meat. I cook for only myself so its a constant battle of balancing how much I prepare. I have to eat enough to keep my blood sugar in balance and not enough to gain more weight. I often make new dishs out of some of my leftovers if they are foods that will go well together. I know with the cost of food rising all the time that I do try to end up with as few left overs as possible.

Yeah,i do eat leftovers, actually, I recycle them.I use leftover ham for fried rice, I chop them fine and mix it with the rice.

sure do

Yes. we do eat leftovers or turn them into something else, a new dish perhaps. Every food in the table, i value and would not want any to go to waste because others dont even have enough to eat. I feel guilty at times if foods that are still okay are out to trash.

Most of the time we eat our leftovers the next day either for breaky or for lunch.

I'd love to say, "Yes, we eat all of our leftovers." But we don't. I try not to make so much that there will be leftovers. Most of the time I succeed in that. On the times that there is food left over, my husband might eat it for lunch the next day. Usually if it is not eaten the day after it was cooked, it doesn't get eaten at all. Then I end up having to throw it away. We don't have many leftovers though.

I have been cooking a long time and I pretty much know how much we will eat. I try to never cook more than we will eat at one meal. I rarely want leftovers. When I was working, if there was something extra, I took it for lunch. Now, though, it would probably just be wasted!

I usually keep not cooking so much and don't leave leftovers. If the food is much ,i will try to eat all. haha, i think i have a big stomach.

I don't always eat all my leftovers, but I try not to waste them. Like, yesterday and today I made some yummy wraps with some leftover salad. I also made some wraps with some leftover sloppy joe, just added cheese and popped it in the microwave, yumm...yummm :)