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If you freeze it and eat it later that’s called meal prep.
The accidental LPT is always in the comments
If you freeze it and forget about it and instead buy another freezer to store more frozen food, that’s called hording.
I’m too cheap to throw it out. So my role in the house is to eat all the leftovers before they go bad
Same. My folks never eat leftovers. I patrol the fridge each day and assemble a cast of weird and wonderful characters to have for lunch at work.
The joys of having children eventually. Leftovers are just meal prep for lunch the next day!
Establishing a leftovers night is the way to go though.
Sometimes I have even thrown it out with the tupperware because it’s gotten so bad that opening that container would probably poison everything in a 100m radius.
You can freeze the bad ones (mark it as bad in case you forget about it) then dump it as one big block and take the trash out before it thaws.
Genius
If you wait long enough, it will throw itself away.
in my experience its best to ooen those into the compost directly
I call the bottom shelf of my grandmothers fridge the petri dish for this exact reason.
Constantly puts shit in tupperware, puts it down there, and forgets about it until i find it, and by then its become its own microscopic ecosystem.
And I still eat it - unsweetened cotton candy and all
This is how new superheros are born
This is also what keeps life expectancy lower.
Am I the only one who thinks leftovers make the best breakfasts?
This happens every time because there is something else in the fridge that needs to be cooked so it won’t spoil. Then you eat the new dish instead of the old one since you just made it and the old one goes bad…
Yeah, it’s pretty much like that.
Still, most leftovers are eaten… at least in our household.
But then you keep cooking new stuff because you don’t want to touch the x-day-old food that you’re not interested anymore and want something freshly cooked to eat. You’ll get around to it evenshoely, for shooor
I feel seen.
Is this by chance a lasagna best before '97?
SourceMy mother once bypasses the refrigerator part and accidentally put leftovers in the cupboard over the oven. After a week or two, the smell had us thinking something crawled into the oven vent from outside and died. It took me noticing something bubbling up from between two casserole dishes to realize what happened.
