Kitchen

[Sooner]

Wow!  No leftovers, only fresh, no canned or frozen, that is totally on another planet from mine.  I'd had to have a NASA space telescope to even see that one from where I Iive!  And I love beef roast so much I'd cook one for me and freeze the leftovers for me!  

Can't imagine no LeSueur canned green beans!

[RedTop]

We love leftovers!  

There are foods we would never eat without using up the leftovers in the fridge, such as vegetable soup, beef stew, potato pancakes.  

I have never in my 47 years of marriage, cooked a beef or pork roast just for the purpose of making soup, stew or bbq; they are only made with leftovers, period.   My husband only gets salmon patties when I have a dab of mashed potatoes left over, since he doesn't like them made with breadcrumbs.

[Regal Bee]

My husband likes leftovers but I do not.

[ECBG]

@RedTop 

I have never used mashed potatoes in salmon patties.  To 1 can of salmon, I break up 4 saltine crackers for a more firm texture.

[DeeJoyce]

Love, Love, Love Thanksgiving leftovers!  And there are a few others we eat.  Especially soup and chili.

[ECBG]

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@DeeJoyce wrote:

Love, Love, Love Thanksgiving leftovers!  And there are a few others we eat.  Especially soup and chili.

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@DeeJoyce 

YUM!!!  Add spaghetti sauce and pot roast!!!

[ALRATIBA]

Just me - supper/dinner -  generally make enough for  three nights.  

That was my routine when I was working ... continued t when I retired.

Cook one day .... reheat two days.  I'm enjoying last night's curried beef stew.

[Thats Me]

I loved my mother's lasagne and meatloaf! And we always said they tasted better the next day after the flavors had more time to meld.

Cooking for myself, I don't generally have leftovers. I'm a creature of whim so I'll make what I'm in the mood for and it's always something simple. When I prepared meals for my father I'd purposefully make a pork roast or a batch of something and portion it into freezer storage bags, but I guess that's different. I'm not the cook my mother was, and once in a while he'd let me know (in a kind way) that he wanted something different.

Are men more difficult to please this way than women, who traditionally are more the ones to prepare the meals?

[TheMemphisVette]

what is the difference between a left over and cook ahead?

for some they need to do the pies or some of the sides day before in order to get it all cooked for the holiday meal.

[Mom2Dogs]

No issues are our house.  My husband would go to bed hungry if he didn't like left overs...either we eat what is left a few days later or the food is frozen for later use.

 If he didn't eat them, then we would be eating out at his expense.  I refuse to throw food away.