Do you eat left-overs to save money on food?

Sure, what I'll do now is make enough for two days. I'll usually skip a day then I'll use the leftovers for a meal. When i'm making lasagna or shepherds pie it'll just be a little bigger size. Which I find is more economical and saves.

We do eat leftovers for as long as they can still be eaten. My parents wouldn't want us throwing away leftovers. Of course, not unless it can no longer be eaten. I do reheat leftovers. Sometimes, I would even come up with another dish using some leftovers.

I've always eaten leftovers and I really like them. I just can't imagine anyone throwing out perfectly edible food, it just drives me crazy. I eat everything until it's gone unless it's moldy and rotten, which I can't help sometimes. It's just me here and a lot of things just aren't made for one person, so if I make a packaged meal, I always have left overs.

I eat leftovers quite often. Living alone, I will sometimes just cook for one or two days for the entire week, freezing individual meals for a quick reheat in the microwave. With the recent flooding of the Mississippi River and the loss of most of the corn and soy crops, food prices will get even higher than they are at the current time. I think many people will be eating leftovers or cutting corners on meals in the coming months. Most foods can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 3 days but then need to be frozen if they are to be reheated later on down the line. Most cooked food can be frozen to be reheated for up to six months, but then you run the risk of freezer burn. Investing on good food storage containers or freezer bags is a good idea to save money on your food budget.

I love leftovers because it also saves me from making another meal.....especially in the winter I make big batches of chili etc...and freeze part of it for future meals. But I do enjoy leftovers.....some things actually taste better the second day!

Yes we definitely eat left overs. I often take them for lunch the next day and depending on how meat was fixed you can often turn it into a whole new dish. Fried or roasted chicken is wonderful when you shred it mix it with some salsa, cooked white rice, and little bit of salt. Wrap the mixture in a flour tortilla and add some cheese. Bake in the oven till the tortilla gets crispy and noone will ever guess you're serving them leftovers.

I love left overs. I eat left over sometimes for breakfast. I love cold pizza and cold spaghetti for breakfast. I know it sounds strange to you who use to not eat the left overs. But we grew up poor so we did not waist any food what so ever if we could help it.

Most of the time, I try not to have leftovers. I only cook the amount I know we will eat. When I do cook more, we definitely eat it. If there isn't enough for another big meal, we will usually have it for lunch. I hate wasting food; it's just like throwing away money. But most of the time, like I said, I don't have leftovers.

I always safe our left overs, if I don't think we will eat them straight away I will freeze them and will use them as a meal-base for another meal. In the wintertime I make a running soup that means that I just keep adding extras to the pot everynight - each day I put extra meat and vegetables in and also extra broth. With the addition of different herbs you come up with a different tasting meal every night. I love left-overs - go the bubble and squeak on the weekends!

Even if money was not an issue, I would save and eat leftovers. As long as you put it away soon and store in a closed container, leftovers are just as good, if not better than the first time. My husband often takes leftovers to work the next day for lunch. Or for dinner I make something else out of it. For example, if we have leftover chicken, I make chicken salad, chicken soup, stir fry or quessadillas out of it. The possibilities are endless. I use leftover steak in chili, leftover chili on hot dogs for chili dogs, break up leftover hamburgers for tacos. You don't have to eat it all the same way the second time. Get creative and your husband may not even realize he is eating leftovers.

We have always ate leftovers sometimes I will make someting like beef and noodles or stew and we will eat it for 3 or 4 days it really saves on money to eat something several days in a row.

i most certainly do. get tired of them sometimd because i live alone. another thing i do is keep a plastic bowl or whatever in the freezer & i ut leftovers in it when i have enough i make soup, which i'm very fond of. another good way is get u some divided plates w/a lid & make your own tv dinners out of your leftovers. i share alot w/my friends also.

Most definitely we eat leftovers. I find creative ways to use them sometimes too. For instance the left over roast beef will be made either into beef stew, veggie-beef soup, or BBQ beef sandwhiches. Also, some of my meals that have rice in them, I add extra rice since its cheap and stretch the meal. That way it can be served twice. I can make two lbs of hamburger stretch into almost four meals if needed, simply by adding only part to my spaghetti sauce and making enough for two days. And using the remainder as taco meat - and only putting a small amount in the taco shell.

I eat leftovers every other day. it saves ALOT of money! when I cook in the evening I try and think of something to cook that I know will taste good after its been in the fridge. Pizza, any meat you grill, and potatos always taste good the day after!

I have never understood why some people dislike eating leftovers, alindahaw. Maybe it's because leftovers have always been a part of my life, but I don't have a problem with eating them. As a matter of fact, some meals actually taste better when served as leftovers. It is also true that you can save a great deal of money simply by eating leftovers . I often cook enough of a meal to serve for two or even three days. This cuts out so much cooking and I often freeze meals.

I have always ate leftovers but only when they are refrigerated just right of the meal, I thought just my country was getting affected for the high prices on food but it seen that every country is having problems with it, by the way I never ate leftover for save money on food before but I did eat the leftover because my mother like to save them because she says that it was not good to throw food because it would bring bad luck and that we would have a shortage on food if we throw food to the garbage, now we are doing for save money because as other people comment I feel like throwing money to the garbage, anyway I just happy that we are not having so much trouble as some countries with lots of shortages on food, it have just got higher prices here but I hope they start to down soon because it is making very expensive just eat something like meat, I would like that governments on the world found a way to do food very cheap, but I don't know I just hope that all get better soon or there will be many conflicts just and even wars for food, It remember me that I have heard that in the future wars will be for water, but I think it would be also for food.

Yes I do and so do the kids. But my husband really hates leftovers. He will not eat them if he knows they are leftovers. So, I try my best to disguise them and incorporate them into another meal. For instance, if we had steak then I try to make a steak vegetable soup or a steak stir fry with the leftover steak. If there are left over mashed potatoes I try to put that into potato soup, and so-on. That way we save money and he never knows the difference.

I have always used left-overs. Some things just can't be reheated and taste right so you may have to come up with a casserole or make a stew or something. When my kids were little I always cleaned out the refrigerator and defrosted it the day before payday. All the left overs were checked to make sure they were not spoiled and we had "Mulligan Stew" for supper that night. Of course onion and a few other things had to be added, but the leftovers stretched the few remaining groceries. :) I can remember when I was growing up we grew all our veggies. I would want to put the one spoonful of left-over corn in the pig slop and Mama wouldn't let me. Instead she'd make a batter like for pancakes and mash the corn up a little and put it in the batter. She called them corn fritters. I save mashed potatoes and add flour, egg, milk, and some chopped onion and fry little balls or patties of the resulting batter. That recipe was the basis for the original Tater Tots. Or sometimes I chop up some onion and pickle and add a little mayo and mustard for a potato salad. If you've been in the habit of throwing away left-overs because your family won't eat them, get creative. Food is too expensive to waste.

Well It depends on the left over. I do not like some of them, but most of the time my husband does. And since sometimes we are on different schrdules, so it is easier for him to juts heat something up. In the winer I make large batches of soup and freeze it into sinle portions. I know with canned soups this seems silly. But we follow a low carb lifestyle and will not eat soups with noodles or rice. So I make interesting soups like chicken soup with spinach and when it is heated we add a spoonful of ricotta. Now that is some great food!

Hi there, we're becoming quite tight with our cooking, but definitely not missing out on taste. Often I splash out on a larger joint of meat, but it ends up as at least two dinners, sandwiches/lunches... you name it. So for lamb, say, you'd get a roast or pot roast, then: cold lamb/salad bits lamb curry with leftovers then if it is on the bone, slow-cooked broth/soup with the remainder For beef: Dinner Sandwiches Cold beef and bubble & squeak or stir fry chinese (blackbean sauce) For chicken Dinner Sandwiches Chicken & veg pie or chicken & veg stuffed pancakes Carcasse into soup (or freeze carcasse for later to make stock) For pork Dinner Cold/sandwiches Sweet and sour stir fry I could go on...