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Post by littlemama on Oct 15, 2014 14:08:20 GMT
Leftovers for dinner are quite rare - usually those are taken for lunch the next day by DH or by me. If I make a ton of something, we might see it again the next night. I would never eat leftovers for 7 days - both for food safety reasons, and I don't want to eat the same thing that many times in a row.
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~Susan~
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Post by ~Susan~ on Oct 15, 2014 14:23:12 GMT
I eat leftovers just about everyday for lunch and if we seem to have a lot of leftovers at the end of the week, we will have a "fend for yourself night".
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Post by christinec68 on Oct 15, 2014 14:39:35 GMT
I practically live on left overs since I don't mind eating the same things all the time. For some reason, it's something I just don't care about so I want it to be as easy as possible. Every 2 to 3 weeks, I'll spend a day cooking things that I can reheat or freeze. Some things will be dinner and others for lunch or a both. I'll make something new 3, maybe 4 days a week but otherwise it's some form of leftover (or we pick up something).
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Post by tduby1 on Oct 15, 2014 14:43:06 GMT
I freeze leftovers. About once every two or three weeks I pull it all out and we have leftover Sunday. Just warm and everyone eats what they want. That's the way we eat straight up leftovers. Otherwise we incorporate them into other meals.
For instance, we had spaghetti two nights ago. The leftover sauce was used to make pizzas last night. Chili is always followed a few days later by everybody's favorite, chili cheese fries or chili nachos. Tacos are often followed by regular nachos, using the leftovers. Leftover chicken breasts are tossed in a salad (we do just a nice, big salad for dinner once a week). Leftover roast meat is sometimes made into taco meat.
Years ago, DH, in an effort to get more veggies in my veggie hating oldest, took the meat, potatoes, carrots and onions left from a roast and pureed it all with a few cans of tomatoes. Then he cooked the mashed mixture and seasoned it and came up with a coney dog topping. It sounds gross but it is so good and one of oldest sons favorites. Recently, he found out about the veggies, lol. So, often I make two roasts or one very large roast and then DH makes up batches of that to freeze from the leftovers.
Sometimes I do this in the course of a week: Tacos Chili, tossing in the leftover beans and meat from tacos (along with new beans and meat) Chili cheese fries.
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Post by eastcoastpea on Oct 15, 2014 15:06:04 GMT
Probably five times a week; and, usually as lunch or after school snacks.
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Post by sarahyoo72 on Oct 15, 2014 15:37:14 GMT
I cook just about every night. Any leftovers DH usually packs up for his lunch the next day. The only times I purposefully intend on using leftovers is if I buy a rotisserie chicken - I'll make sure there is enough meat left for a second meal - or at Christmas. Cold turkey, stuffing and homemade fries is our traditional Boxing Day meal  |
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Post by *KAS* on Oct 15, 2014 18:05:51 GMT
I'm not sure that I would call it leftovers - but I do cook ahead on weekends if I'm in town all week. On Sundays I will cook 5 chicken breasts, 4 servings of brown rice, a couple of burgers, etc. Line up the containers, portion it up in containers and my lunches or dinners are done for the week. I might use different spices, but I don't mind simple meals. Easy to track in my fitness pal, too. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2014 19:08:36 GMT
We never eat leftovers for dinner. I am pretty good at making just enough for us to eat or in the case of DH's favorites, I will make enough for him to have a lunch the next day.  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2014 19:36:22 GMT
Not too often. I usually only cook enough for dinner for DH and I. The only time we really have leftovers is when we throw a party. If we have a piece of chicken leftover from dinner, honestly, it usually goes to waste. I know...I know. It really just gets forgotten about.
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Post by dynalady on Oct 15, 2014 19:41:44 GMT
Fairly often. There are just the two of us and we don't eat as much as we used to, and a lot of recipes are either too hard to cut down or too much work to make just one tiny meal. Sometimes there is only enough left for DH to have for lunch, sometimes there is enough for another meal. If the leftovers will make more than one meal I put one in the freezer. We don't have the same thing two days in a row though. I will save it for a day or two and make other meals in between.
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Post by scrapmaven on Oct 15, 2014 21:07:58 GMT
I try to cook meals w/leftovers in mind. Dh will eat them for lunch the next day or we can have a couple fend nights. They're good for those nights that I'm not up to cooking, but want to feed my family a warm, homemade meal.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2014 21:41:15 GMT
Depends on the leftovers. I also do a lot of "cook once, eat twice" type meals.
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Post by schizo319 on Oct 15, 2014 22:04:44 GMT
We eat a LOT of leftovers,I think we literally eat leftovers of some kind every day (between all three meals). Dh and I are on opposite shifts and it's just the two of us, so I try to cook things that are easily warmed up and make a lot. This week I cooked baked oatmeal (breakfast for the week for both of us), Taco Soup, Beef Stew and Pork Roast with rice and green beans. We'll have leftover beef stew tonight and tomorrow is our YOYO night because I have a dinner meeting at 6. Friday we'll probably do cuban sandwiches with the leftover pork roast. Lexica - I'm sorry about your kitty, hope she gets some relief soon. (p.s. I like that you're wordy - lots of good ideas in your post) |
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Post by workingclassdog on Oct 15, 2014 22:28:24 GMT
Not that many.. but if there are leftovers we will usually finish them the next night.. depending how much I am cooking.. it could be once a week... a lot of times our leftovers are our lunch for work the next day.. unless there is so much for another full meal.
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Post by paget on Oct 16, 2014 4:05:37 GMT
I purposely cook to create leftovers. My family loves them. I like some better than others but it's all better than cooking again! I like to cook a meal maybe Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday and then Wednesday people can eat leftovers from any of those or make their own thing. Dh eats leftovers for lunch every day. I cook 4-5 nights a week and we have leftovers or fend for yourself 2-3 nights. We rarely eat out anymore.
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Post by chaosisapony on Oct 16, 2014 5:23:32 GMT
I get tired of the same food quickly so when I cook I usually just make enough for one serving for dinner and one for lunch the next day. Sometimes I will do three servings of a favorite food but not very often. Usually if I do three servings of something that isn't a favorite food I wind up throwing it away the next week.
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Post by anniebygaslight on Oct 16, 2014 6:29:44 GMT
Leftovers get eaten for lunch here. I wouldn't be eating the same meal for 3 or 4 nights on the trot though.
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Post by Jockscrap on Oct 16, 2014 7:06:29 GMT
There was an interesting programme on the telly last night, saying that cooked, cooled then reheated pasta is much less fattening for you, and acts like fibre due to changes that take place to the starches during the cooling and reheating process. We all love second day pasta as the flavours seem to develop more overnight, but now I have another reason to enjoy the leftovers for lunch - they are actually good for me!
The link is here Reheated pasta experiment
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Post by njinkerbelle on Oct 16, 2014 11:27:12 GMT
I will eat leftovers for lunch at work anytime there is any. But at home I try to put one day between the first time we eat it and the second time. But often I make just enough or so close that it is not worth saving the little bit leftover. So maybe once or twice a week there will be something leftover to use for a meal along with something fresh. Things like soup or stew of which there will be lots of leftover (I don't know how to do small with these) I freeze the leftovers in two person servings. Comes in handy for nights I don't really want to cook. This sounds like us. |
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