Recycling Left Over Food

@cherigucchi (14885)
Philippines
November 5, 2015 11:35pm CST
Do you throw away left over food? You should not! Its a waste when we cook a lot of food then we do not consume it. There are a lot of people dying from hunger and then we only put food to waste. I have my way of recycling left over food because its economical. There are a lot of recipes that we can learn. Sometimes having a pet is good because they can have those left overs. What do you think? What do you do with your left over food?
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@LadyDuck (454987)
• Switzerland
6 Nov 15
I never throw food, this is something I would never do. There are many ways to recycle food, but I always try only to cook what we can finish, this is the best way not to eat too much and not to waste food.
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@cherigucchi (14885)
• Philippines
9 Nov 15
That is right
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@boiboing (13153)
• Northampton, England
6 Nov 15
At the end of the week anything that looks like it won't last much longer goes into soup
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@Drosophila (16573)
• Ireland
6 Nov 15
@boiboing Sounds like a tonsillitis special. :D
@Drosophila (16573)
• Ireland
6 Nov 15
That's a good idea. Soup is very straight forward to make.
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@boiboing (13153)
• Northampton, England
6 Nov 15
@Drosophila Chuck all the veg in, boil it up with a stock cube and zap it in a blender.
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@katsmeow1213 (28719)
• United States
7 Nov 15
We will throw away left over food if its something we didn't like much the first time around. Hardly anyone will touch it the next day if we didn't like it the night before. Anything we do like there are never any left overs of. So basically if we don't finish it at dinner I toss it out right then instead of saving it and letting it spoil in the fridge.
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@cherigucchi (14885)
• Philippines
9 Nov 15
That is inevitable. It also happens to me sometimes
@myfb2009 (8296)
• Malaysia
10 Nov 15
It depends on occasion, then only i will have some leftovers. Usually, i don't cook a lot, so there won't be any leftovers. Nowadays, things are getting expensive, i will estimate my cooking. If there is any leftover, i will give them to my family dog. Most of the time, i don't waste my leftovers.
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@cherigucchi (14885)
• Philippines
11 Nov 15
Usually our eating varies every meal so I agree with you
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@SIMPLYD (90727)
• Philippines
6 Nov 15
Sometimes we recycle by just reheating them on the microwave . But most of the time we give it to the dogs who also deserve some tasty leftovers .
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@myfb2009 (8296)
• Malaysia
10 Nov 15
@SIMPLYD My family dog don't like to eat much rice. It prefer chicken or veggies that are leftovers form our lunch or dinner.
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@SIMPLYD (90727)
• Philippines
9 Nov 15
@cherigucchi Indeed ! But they can really eat a big chunk of the rice that we cook .
@cherigucchi (14885)
• Philippines
9 Nov 15
That is the advantage of having pets like dogs or cats
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@poehere (15126)
• French Polynesia
6 Nov 15
I have plastic storage containers I put it in and we eat it the next day for dinner. What I normally do is cook for 3 days and then heat up food for the next three days works great for me. I never throw food away it is too expensive.
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@shshiju (10343)
• Cochin, India
6 Nov 15
Do not cook lavish food but cook for the necessity of your family members. If there is much balance there is a tendency to eat more, because every cooking person is not like to waste his/her hard work. Keeping balance food in fridge and consume later is not a healthy tendency. If you have cow, dogs, or hens then OK. Most important is DO NOT WASTE FOOD
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@poehere (15126)
• French Polynesia
6 Nov 15
@shshiju I normally do a lot of cooking in a wok. I cook a lot of veggies and sometimes with fish or chicken. I am not a meat person so we don't eat a lot of meat here. Normally when I cook because there is only 2 of us I do cook for 2 days at a time. It just works out this way in the end because by the time all the veggies are added it seems to make a lot of food and I am not a big eater but my partner is. So it does balance out and the food is gone in 2 times.
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@shshiju (10343)
• Cochin, India
7 Nov 15
@poehere Your work schedule is such a one. We do cooking daily as common. Do you enjoy your cooking or not?
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@1hopefulman (45125)
• Canada
16 Nov 15
I try to never throw any food away as I was raised that way.
@sofssu (23662)
6 Nov 15
i always upcycle food into something different and new.. i enjoy doing it.
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@cherigucchi (14885)
• Philippines
9 Nov 15
That is a very wise thing to do
@amnabas (13743)
• Karachi, Pakistan
6 Nov 15
No i dont recycle igive it to my maid for her kids.
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@cherigucchi (14885)
• Philippines
9 Nov 15
That is a good idea as well.
@Drosophila (16573)
• Ireland
6 Nov 15
I try to cook what I can eat and no more. I also shop for fresh food every day.
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@cherigucchi (14885)
• Philippines
9 Nov 15
That is what we supposed to do to avoid left overs
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
6 Nov 15
We always re-use our leftovers, rartely does anything get tosseds and only if its gone bad or molded.
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@cherigucchi (14885)
• Philippines
9 Nov 15
That is the same thing I do
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@carexing25 (1819)
• Philippines
6 Nov 15
it depends on the age of the leftover food. I do a lot of experiments in the kitchen with leftovers.. when it's not good for human tummy anymore then maybe the pets could consume them. right we have 5 dogs and a pig at home and no food will ever go to waste
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@cherigucchi (14885)
• Philippines
9 Nov 15
That is right. We should know how long it stays in the ref
@Auntylou (4264)
• Oxford, England
7 Nov 15
I can turn one meal's leftovers into something a bit different and soup is easy and quick if made with already cooked veg!
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@cherigucchi (14885)
• Philippines
9 Nov 15
That is creativity and we all should be like that