Leftovers

[debih]

What do you do with your leftovers?

It got me thinking as I sat down to my lunch - more left over chickpea curry!!! I made the curry on Tuesday evening and had a big bowl then (just me as Mick was away). I had another bowl for my lunch and then we had it last night with rice and nan bread. I am now eating another bowl for my lunch. Mick is away tonight so guess what I will be having for my dinner - yeh, chickpea curry. And I think there might be enough for one more bowl for my lunch tomorrow.

You see - it really doesn't bother me eating the same thing over and over again for a few days (as long as it is nice of course). But the idea horrifies Mick.

I usually tend to either freeze left overs, have them for my lunch the next day or make them into something else (so left over beef casserole, for example, would be made into pasties of some sort).

Mick won't eat the same thing (in the exact same form) two days following. My dad is the same.

When it was just the two of us and he worked away all the time I used to make an enormous pan of chilli, eat it every day until it had gone (sometimes with rice, sometimes with bread and sometimes with jacket potato) and then make a big pan of something else - stew, bolognaise, curry, etc and do the same again.

Does it bother you eating the same day two days running (or in my case, missing out breakfast, for four meals running?

[Osc]

No, we plan our meals, and will often make a pasta sauce to last two days. If I ever go away for a few days, himself will eat the same thing every day rather than have to actually cook something different each time.

[JoM]

Leftovers??? In this house?? With the gannets known as John and Tom (both of whom must have hollow legs)????

I usually do a pasta dish on Tuesdays with extra for John to have reheated when he comes in from his bike ride at whatever time on Wednesday night and enough for a couple of containers to go in the freezer for him to take for his lunch a couple of days, so obviously he has no problem with eating the same food day after day

[Ally]

I had to look up the word 'leftover' in the dictionary as it's not a word familiar in this house.

[meriad]

I think it depends on what it is that's left over. I'm OK eating the same thing twice in a row and maybe (but just maybe) a third, but that's it; then I'm bored of it and won't enjoy it. So because I live on my own I usually cook enough for a few meals, keep two portions aside and freeze the rest and then take it to work and heat it in the microwave.

My absolute worst is left over BBQ mean - cannot stand it. And I'm probably one of the few that really really really isn't overly fond of cold pizza the next day either - eeuck :0

[Ally]

Mmmm cold pizza. Perfect hangover cure fodder.

[saundra]

if i do a curry/stew or mince i can eat it the next day quite ok
or i freeze extra meal
but i dont like cold pasta or pizza ugh ugh ugh

[Kaz]

I don't like eating the same thing twice in a row, neither does B really, but Mick doesn't mind. If I make pasta I always make extra and put it in the fridge in a click-lock plastic box for his lunch next day

[Diflower]

We often have planned leftovers, whether the same again or as something else.

Chilli will be with rice one night; Bb likes it on a jacket potato the next but I usually cook enough rice for me twice. If we didn't want it again I'd freeze it. Or sometimes the second night we have it in tortillas, either as fajitas or done in the oven with tomato sauce and/or creme fraiche and cheese on top

I wouldn't want spag bol two nights running, but that's handy to have frozen.
A chicken will often do 3 dinners, but that doesn't seem to me like leftovers, it's 3 different meals

[Kaz]

Oh yes, we like cold meats too so often have some left from a roast......