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Do You Ir Your DH Have An Issue With Leftovers?

ECBG — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 02:42:34 GMT

We have no issue with leftovers here.

I can make a pot roast with vegetables and I can have it for several days. DH can't tolerate some meats like I can. so he may grill a protein he can digest easier..

Tonight I did salmon patties with dill sauce which gives me leftovers.

I don't cook for leftovers, but sometimes they happen.

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Franklinbell — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 02:47:09 GMT

@ECBG funny thing. I have a dear friend that has a husband that doesnt like leftovers. So when she has them she calls me the night before to tell me that she has packed my lunch. I stop by the next day and pick it up! He is grateful the food is gone, she is happy and i am well fed!

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drizzellla — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 02:49:32 GMT

YES! YES! YES! I hate that subject!

My husband will only eat leftovers if he REALLY likes what I cooked.

But there is a catch. If he REALLY liked what I made he might have 4 helpings. So there aren't leftovers.

But I try something and he doesn't get excited about it, he complains about having to eat leftovers. And he won't eat it. And he wants me to only cook enough so we don't have any leftovers.

Well, I don't always know whether he will eat one serving or four.

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Sooner — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 02:52:20 GMT

We always cook for several days at a time. We most often repurpose the food, so it is something different, but salads get added to, chicken breasts will be eaten with veggies one day, made into soup, then maybe served as bbq sandwiches.

Today we had leftover chicken, steamed potatoe, and a boiled egg (which we often have in the fridge) and it became potato salad with chicken and an egg for my husband. We steam a big batch of broccoli every week and sometimes will steam a potato with it.

I made a pot of lentils with a lot of peppers, carrots, onion, celery and herbs, and I had that with organic red rice left from yesterday.

We are both good cooks, and we don't like waste, so we have a general plan for what is cooked--and it is seldom for only one meal.

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Love my grandkids — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 02:53:04 GMT

@ECBG Myself, my late DH and just about everyone I know grew up on them and have no problem with them.

I once knew a woman whose husband flat out refused to eat them. She would eat them and have to fix something else for him every dang day. I told her, tell him to fix his own meals or eat out! They moved and I don't know what happened but I just shook my head.

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twinsister — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 03:01:30 GMT

We both like leftovers and for me a bonus is that I don't have to think about what to make for dinner the next night!

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rockygems123 — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 03:19:15 GMT

@ECBG wrote:
We have no issue with leftovers here.

I can make a pot roast with vegetables and I can have it for several days. DH can't tolerate some meats like I can. so he may grill a protein he can digest easier..

Tonight I did salmon patties with dill sauce which gives me leftovers.

I don't cook for leftovers, but sometimes they happen.

@ECBG

If I have leftovers I flatten them in ziplock bags as they don't take up much room in the freezer and most of the time I use them. Some stay little pancakes until it's time to recyle what's in the freezer and they get tossed.

Some of my meals are time intensive and I don't like to waste that food & effort but we don't have much of an appetite for the same meal within a few days, wish we did!

BTW your salmon patties sound delicious, did you make the dill sauce?

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beach-mom — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 03:26:10 GMT

This is a sore subject in our home. DH hates leftovers! So do my children. DH grew up on a dairy farm. I'm sure they had leftovers. My children ate them growing up, but they didn't like them. IDK what it is! But now that it's just the two of us he doesn't have much of a choice.

DH's one sister always has the family dinners. We'll have a big dinner, then the next night she will say we're having a few leftovers, but then she will just add "a few more "things"! (We only go once or twice a year because it's a 7 or 8-hour drive for us.)

Anyway, I LOVE leftovers! Maybe it was the lectures I heard about those less fortunate my dad gave us while we were eating. But I think some things I make actually taste better the next day.

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Queen of shop — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 03:26:19 GMT

@ECBG No we don't have a problem with leftovers. Some meals are even better the second time around. Like pasta. A slice of leftover pizza for lunch or breakfast is good too.

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JeanLouiseFinch — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 03:33:39 GMT

I cook certain things with intentions to have leftovers. DH is easy to please - no issues with eating them. When we have our leftovers, it's usually not the very next day. I'll wait a day in between. Most of my casserole type recipes make four servings so I cook once, we eat twice. If I'm making grilled chicken breasts, I always make extra for another day.

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kate2357 — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 03:45:34 GMT

There are some meals I cook to purposely have leftovers. Tonight I made meatloaf and the recipe calls for 2 lbs of meat...so I freeze part of raw meatloaf then bake off the rest. The amount I baked tonight will feed us two days...the amount in freezer is enough for one dinner and maybe a sandwich.

I don't mind leftovers and as others wrote, sometimes food tastes better on day 2. Lucky for me, hubby will eat leftovers.

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Kachina624 — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 03:51:50 GMT

So much simpler to live alone. I cook leftovers, when I cook. No way will I put forth major time and effort just for me for one meal. I could eat the same thing every night for a week and often do. I love to make a big casserole with protein, veggies and carbs, a one-dish meal. If I get tired of it, I freeze individual portions.

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Icegoddess — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 03:58:56 GMT

My husband always "forgets" that we have leftovers, leaving them for me to eat. Sometimes, that's a good thing, like when I make Red Beans & Rice. But, I can't eat spaghetti several days in a row, so I try to remember to vacuum seal and freeze most of the leftovers to have later.

Funny, he didn't have trouble eating leftovers of unknown age before we got married. I can't say he could tell whether it was bad, at least by smell, since he can't tell when the milk sours.

I do know a lady from church whose husband WILL NOT eat any leftovers. I don't know if they eat out a lot or what. It's difficult to cook meals every day for just 2 people. My husband does eat out a lot whereas I'll generally make a sandwich or cook a frozen meal a lot. I generally eat a larger lunch and then just have a snack or something for dinner.

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PickyPicky3 — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 04:09:57 GMT

@Kachina624 You brought back memories of my time in grad school where I'd make a different stew every Sunday night. For three years. Beef stew, chicken stew, fish stew, lamb stew, veal stew and chick pea stew at the end of the month.

Today I'm a no leftovers please person.

This sounds so good...especially on a rainy day:

phoenixbrd — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 08:44:00 GMT

@Sooner This sounds so good...especially on a rainy day:

@Sooner wrote:

I made a pot of lentils with a lot of peppers, carrots, onion, celery and herbs, and I had that with organic red rice left from yesterday.

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ID2 — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 09:40:06 GMT

I never understood how anyone could not eat leftovers. Only new fresh food all the time. If I make a roast, I know for the next week or so we will be eating roast. My dh loves leftovers. If I tire of eating them I will freeze them for another time.

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eadu4 — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 10:11:20 GMT

@ECBG UGH I'm one of those whose husband will NOT eat leftovers. And yes a fresh meal every meal. I'm lucky he only does a yogurt with fruit in the morning. So I'm off the hook there. His lunches I make him bento boxes but dinner nope nope. It's annoying and a royal pain. Top it with the fact i hate to cook to begin with and he won't do any take out unless it will be his last meal on this earth and yeah it's tiresome. I don't eat dinner so I make just enough for him now. I learned to make myself a good lunch and don't eat any dinner. At least that way I don't need to make a bigger amount. If he has anything leftover he always says "you go yourself your lunch for tomorrow". I roll my eyes. FYI...he can't even make an egg.

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haddon9 — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 10:13:33 GMT

Depends on what it is. Fish is something that I don't care for as a left over.

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ECBG — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 11:33:03 GMT

@eadu4

Bless your heart. That's a tough one. We love pot roasts.

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ECBG — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 11:37:58 GMT

@rockygems123

Yes! Love dill sauce with salmon patties!