Left overs from dinner?. do you eat them the next day or dispose of them?

I love leftovers...especially lasagna. Since I eat very small meals I usually have several bowls of leftovers to pick from. Hubby also likes them heated up for lunches. **AT PEACE WITHIN** ~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~

That is sooo funny :) I totally understand how you feel about that I don't leftover food that much and mostly will not eat it...just something about it..however.. I feel somewhat quilty if the leftover is an expensive meat, fish or whatever..then i will make an attempt to create a another dish out of it but after that if is still around it is by by leftovers and goes down the garbage disposel. Actually a very well known food editor said that leftovers start to spoil after about the 3rd day of refridgeration, thats enough for me:) but sour cream... which I love...holds up for quiet some time.. I'v never had any that lasts long enough to spoil:) sooo with the high cost of food now days I'm looking into alternate ways of using those left overs....I'll share my LO recipes.. take care

I usually cook enough for my husband to carry in his lunch the next day and for me to eat the next day for lunch. We have to cut back everywhere we can. Sometimes, I use the leftovers so I can make a different dish and it doesn't quite seem like left overs. LOL

Sometimes I eat them but more often than not I find the food goes bad before i get around to eating it. I do ieatt leftover pizzeria pizza or any restaurant leftovers, You pay so much to begin with for the food I feel it must be eaten. course I do have some leftover chinesse I never ate.

Oh no!! I can't afford to throw away some left overs. Wasting food is a bad habit. You can re cook them and pur other ingredients on it. It is the best thing I learned from my parents not to throw away blessings. We are fortunate that we could eat 3 times a day and some could even afford to eat 6 times because we have plenty. If we could just imagine the people in other countries who are just eating the left overs in the garbage, we might value the food that we wasted. I don't throw away left overs unless they are already spoiled and not good to eat. But if possible, I will prepare a meal that would be enough so that nothing would be wasted.

yes of course!especially the rice.here in the philippnes we called it "kaning lamig" or "bahaw". its delicious and easy to prepare as fried rice.saute it in garlic and voila!delicious!

Yes, it does depend on the type of food which we are gonna eat the next day. Sometimes left-overs gets spoiled over-night, I readily throw them away. But if it's steak or any kind of meat, I usually turn them into another dish or use them as meat fillings. I mostly use them and put in my fried rice, oriental style!

I think also it is bad. i do not support the idea of consuming so much left over. i think they can actually damage the system. something of the quality of food get damaged.

I try to prepare dinner for one evening. I love with my boyfriend and it is easy to cauculate food for two. But ... my boyfriend has strange habbit - he always leaves just a little bit, tiny bit on the plate and asks me to save it. But I don't have to be worried about throwing it away - he wakes up at night and eats what was left from dinner:)

I do eat left overs. I will just decide to throw it if its really bad or smell bad already but If I can still handle it, I wont waste it, thinking of million of people in my Country that has nothing in their table! you know!I grew up poor so I am that particular about food!

I try not to waste any food. It's typical of our greed driven wasteful societies that so many people don't think twice about throwing good food away whilst others in other countries, or perhaps even in the same city, are starving or living on meagre supplies. Once you have cooked for yourself or other people a few times you should have a good idea of how much food you need to cook. There really is no excuse for wasting food.

We always eat them the next day.. we dont throw them if they are 3 days old and not touched in the fridge then we get rid of them..

My husband gets the leftovers to bring for lunch the next day. Other than that, anything I have leftover and have good intentions of using in the next days meals, usually get thrown out in a couple of weeks because I've forgotten all about it! By the way left over spaghetti fried in a pan for lunch the next day with tons of parm cheese is DELICIOUS!! I'd rather have that than fresh spaghetti any day!

I'll eat them the next day. My partner's always the one who finshes all the left over, I do appreciate with his attitude. Noone likes wasting food, but we've gotta dispose those that make you sick.

We don't consider them as left overs in the first place.In our preparation things don't get bad soon.We mostly cook the curry and gravies extra and keep it for the nest day too.There will be always something left for the nest day in the fridge kept under very hygienic condition.

howdy.. i am just the opposite.. with 8 people to feed in my house.. dun think i can afford to simply 'throw-away' any leftovers. normally my mom or i try to cook 'just enough' for us to finish in one 'sitting', but i guess there are times when one or two of the children dont really want to eat as much as they normally do... hence - leftovers. if i have any leftover of rice - plain rice (we eat rice everyday for lunch) - i make fried rice for breakfast the next day. if have any vegetables, meat or chicken left from lunch - i'll put them into whatever i am cooking for dinner that evening.. but - basic rule is - try to prepare + finish everything in one mealtime... no leftovers, no wastings..

There have been times when all I have in my refrigerator or freezer is leftovers. I've found that some things taste even better the second time around.

I do eat leftovers. Food is very precious just to be wasted. There are so many hungry people around the world and food is becoming scarce so why waste it. It's not fun eating leftovers but if you put a little effort you still can enjoy it. Like for example in spaghetti, I usually separate the pasta from the sauce. I mix enough amount together so that in case it is not consumed, it will still be al dente and fresh the next day. For some vegetable or meat dish, I recycle them into new dishes so that it will be more exciting eating them again. I try to come up with different ideas so that my excess food will not just go to waste.

Ha ha. I don't eat left overs the next day. I'm more concerned about my health. Also advise everyone the same. It's better to prepare food of the required amount. But if it is left over share it with someone or give it to pet.

i would still eat some food left overs from dinner as long as they're not yet spoiled and as long as i can still eat them