i have trouble throwing away food..

[vash]

damn it.

just got a burrito from a local grocery store. imagine Whole Foods, but more local. the lady making my burrito was pretty cool and easy to talk to. very flirty..you all would hate her and NOT hire her since i saw a few visible tattoos.

what she managed to stuff into my tortilla defied physics. it was the alum foil, and only the foil containing that monstrosity. i dont know what she meant when i told her i liked it "hot" and she winked at me...but it did come with hot sauce and jalapenos.

i cracked it opened..peeled the foil down like a banana peel..and dove in. i drew a mental line halfway down. i could barely stop. i had to toss the thing or it would be inside of me. i'm uncomfy stuffed now!! if i ate it all, it would be bad..real bad. i wanted to save it, but it blew up for started..more like a taco salad at this point..and if i kept it would have hen-pecked it until it was gone.

it was tough tossing it. and i am not a child of the depression.. you save leftovers, without exceptions?

[island911]

save as leftovers I get. But people who are into making giant turds because someone is hungry somewhere... ?

[RSBob]

Wife and I had Mexican for lunch yesterday. We only ate about half, the rest is in the fridge for dinner tonight.

Had a discussion the other night about a couple of couples we know who throw away any left overs, and one of the women came from real poverty. Maybe that is her way of saying, now that we are doing well, I won't eat like that again. Seems very wasteful of food and money, but you know what they say about opinions.

[Geronimo '74]

Left over from the day before, ok.
The day before yesterday, toss....

Too much good food gets tossed in the trashcan these days, too much.
Not just by me, in general.

[vash]

i wish restaurants would have a half-sized option..i dont care if it cost 75% of the regular size.

my wife and i dont share. i order the same thing over and over again, and she goes all wild-card with the menu.

[RKDinOKC]

Co-worker goes out to eat evenings with his wife almost every evening. They don't cook much. He always brings half of whatever he had the night before for lunch.

Most times I eat my leftovers within a week, or if it has proved to be not that good reheated the next day...share with my puppy dog. If it stays in the fridge long enough to start growing fuzz, it gets tossed.

[scottmandue]

As long as we are on the subject...
If you go out for Mexican/Italian/Chinese food and have leftovers the next day I am directed "hey, eat those leftovers!"

However if your significant other goes out for Mexican/Italian/Chinese food and in the next couple of days you say "Lets go out for Mexican/Italian/Chinese food" she is all "no, we just had that."

Whatzup with that?

[rusnak]

I don't throw away still edible food, if they are my leftovers. I've been known to eat 2 day old pizza and then say "it's just now cured over", and gross out my employees.

There used to be a great burrito place in Hayward. They have huge burritos with rice, beans, the best cheese ever, etc. I started going there way before the Chipotle thing took off.

[ckelly78z]

I always ask for a box when I don't finish my meal at a resturaunt.....don't care who it offends, I will appreciate that uneaten portion of steak fixed with some home grown eggs the next morning.

I am going to dive into some of my wife's sweedish meatballs/noodles from 2 nights ago for supper tonight.

The absolute best Mexican food in our area, is a food truck that makes the rounds at lunchtime, I always gorge myself, and still have leftovers.

[john70t]

rus, you need to hit El Farlitos and get a super pollo with the meany greeny sauce. Think there was one in S. Oakland. SF mission location sucked and dirty. S SF was good also. I'd get dizzy from the endophine overload.

[Arizona_928]

I think the half sized (normal sized?) portions are the kids/senior menu.

Sometimes my eyes get the best of my appetite, but whos doesn't!?
I have no problem putting it in the fridge, or throwing it away if I ain't close to home.

[porsche930dude]

we usually dont have any leftovers but they certainly dont get thrown away. Either eaten the next day combined with another meal at lunch or eaten later in the evening for a small dinner. 4 people here so there is always someone willing to eat it

[stevej37]

Some foods seem to taste better the second day...esp pasta or casseroles.
Leftovers are great.

[dafischer]

We only throw away the leftovers that get forgotten. On weekends we purposely make large meals that generate leftovers so that we can have some easy meals during the week. Large batch meals such as chili, pea soup, and lasagna give a couple of dinners and then the remainder is frozen for more easy dinners.

What we can't finish when dining out (the portions are too large), we always get boxed to go home. Woohoo...gourmet lunch at work. Monday this week I had half a grilled veal t-bone in a red wine demi glace with Garlic mashed potatoes, and my wife had black bass with a buerre blanc sauce topped with lump carb, over risotto.

But it's also like George Carlin's bit about leftovers. You don't want to throw it away, so you wrap it in foil, and 2 weeks later you throw out the food and the foil.

[wdfifteen]

I understand having trouble throwing out food. In the family I grew up in it was a sin to waste food. Both my parents lived through the Great Depression. I know both of them lived with food shortages, my dad especially. I don't remember ever going hungry myself, but we had a lot of nights of salt pork, beans, and cornbread. If we didn't eat it all there was H e11 to pay. I still have that guilt about wasting food.
Mrs WD and I almost always share meals in restaurants. The portions are just too big. We would much prefer smaller amounts of good food to masses of carbs and chemicals.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by rusnak

I don't throw away still edible food, if they are my leftovers. I've been known to eat 2 day old pizza and then say "it's just now cured over", and gross out my employees.

There used to be a great burrito place in Hayward. They have huge burritos with rice, beans, the best cheese ever, etc. I started going there way before the Chipotle thing took off.

Dude, a good pizza leftovers in the fridge is fine for 4 or 5 days. We do that with most any pizza we get. We have tow or three day old leftovers all the time. It is still tasty and fine.

[dafischer]

If it's still in the fridge at one week, out it goes. Excluding seafood...that goes in three days.

[tabs]

What are left overs? NOBODY has left overs at my table. I will ask are you going to eat that?

An I always keep that Plunger handy. I have become surgical with that beotch.

[Evans, Marv]

When my wife & I first got together, she announced one day, "I don't eat left overs." I suppose I offered her something from my fridge. Some time later, she's become a champion left over eater. Not as good as I am though. Sometimes she has to check what I'm about to eat to make sure it doesn't have a beard.

[rusnak]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Dude, a good pizza leftovers in the fridge is fine for 4 or 5 days. We do that with most any pizza we get. We have tow or three day old leftovers all the time. It is still tasty and fine.

See?! I KNEW that they were just a bunch of food wastin' ignoramuses.

Wait, what do you mean "fridge". You don't leave yours outside?