How many times can you eat leftovers?

[uhohs]

How many times can you eat leftovers?

everyday until it's all gone. longest I've had to do is probably 10 or 11 days with huge trays leftover from some party/event.

 

[Darwin333]

Till they're gone. People who don't eat leftovers are special snowflakes. Wasting food is a crime. I've taken food to shelters rather than throw it out. Otoh, the military throws out thousands of dollars in food every day. I estimate a million dollars a month across the nation.

The vast majority of shelters won't take cooked food. If you find people standing outside they will but the shelter itself will not.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

The vast majority of shelters won't take cooked food. If you find people standing outside they will but the shelter itself will not.

I'm talking about leftovers from commercial kitchens. They have no problem taking those leftovers.

 

[MrSquished]

Got an extra dish of chinese food coming tonight, that means extra leftovers of goodness!

 

[Darwin333]

You can only eat leftovers once.

After you eat them the next time you see them they will be poop.

Doesn't matter if it's leftovers or not, eventually, it will all be poop.

 

[mindless1]

I'll leave out a meal (or snack, depends on what it is) worth to eat in the next couple days then freeze the rest immediately, not letting it sit in the fridge for days before doing so. If it's things complimentary to making most of a meal then I'll freeze it in the portion size needed for X # of people to have the meal.

Generally I'll thaw to slightly warm in the microwave on low power and covered to steam heat it, then things that can't be soggy, finish up in the oven or toaster oven (again depends on what it is).

Meals that do very well freezing and reheating, I'll intentionally make a double or triple batch. Sometimes I only cook the portion we're eating that night all the way and the rest finishes cooking during thawing and reheating next time, for example lasagna or some meats and vegetables.

 

[Darwin333]

I'm talking about leftovers from commercial kitchens. They have no problem taking those leftovers.

I highly doubt that. One bad batch and they are shut down for good, they can't afford the legal fees to fight it. I've seen them turn down copious amounts of cooked food from local restaurants. In the end the restaurants had to set up their own place for the homeless to pick up their cooked food so the liability was completely on them.

 

[local]

Some day you may change and take the pros' advice and eat a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables. When you are young you can get away with unhealthy. When you are older, you are wondering WTH you can do to restore your youth. Pretending you're young doesn't cut it.

My mom wasn't an intellectual but she was into healthy living. She made us eat our salad at the beginning of dinner. We had fruits and veges around. There was ice cream in the freezer, but she didn't feed us dessert. She wasn't a great cook and she didn't like cooking but she gave us good eating habits that we never forgot.

I really do wish I didn't immediately gag at the texture and taste of onions and tomatoes it would make ordering a cheeseburger much easier. I do find the taste of onion powder or things cooked with onions like fajitas good though. We are strongly encouraging our kids to eat the stuff we don't and have been mildly successful. But I am fine with what I eat. 5' 10" 180 lbs at 35 I am not exactly worried about becoming a lard ass because I didn't eat some crap veggies.

I will eat salad but only greens keep your tomatoes and other crap out but it still just feels like eating grass. Oh and I forgot about carrots, I will eat an entire bag of raw carrots if someone sets it in front of me but cook them any at all and they might as well be ebola as far as I'm concerned.

As for fruits I never said I didn't like them, I just don't eat them. Apples are great and grapes, cantaloupe, watermelon, strawberries are all good but I don't go out of my way to eat natural sweets when I barely eat any sweet stuff to begin with.

The only kid in the house is you.

Don't forget my wife who only eats about 3/4 the stuff I will. I consider it a personal accomplishment getting her to add mustard and cheese to her meat and bread only burgers.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I highly doubt that. One bad batch and they are shut down for good, they can't afford the legal fees to fight it. I've seen them turn down copious amounts of cooked food from local restaurants. In the end the restaurants had to set up their own place for the homeless to pick up their cooked food so the liability was completely on them.

it comes down to where you are. I've no doubt, both coast's have their heads so far up their asses that they'd allow 'risk management ' to interfere with feeding people. Fortunately, the rest of the country takes a more human view.

 

[Muse]

I really do wish I didn't immediately gag at the texture and taste of onions and tomatoes it would make ordering a cheeseburger much easier. I do find the taste of onion powder or things cooked with onions like fajitas good though.

As a youngster I didn't like tomatoes, those gushy things you find in salads, WTH. It took me a long time to appreciate how good tomatoes can be. Thing is, what you get in the markets (even today, unless it's maybe a farmer's market, but back when I was a kid, every time) is a tomato that was picked green and "ripened" in trays to look like a ripe tomato, but isn't. Those red tomatoes you find in supermarkets are really just green tomatoes that have reddened, they aren't ripe, which means vine-ripened on the plant. They look like a real tomato but they are not. Some fruits and vegetables will ripen after picking, but not a tomato. A prematurely picked tomato lacks flavor, and is worth spitting out, little more.

Onions are God's gift to cooks. They are the best thing to happen to a kitchen. One of my cousins from childhood would eat raw onions, still does. They are great raw and cooked.

I have over many years mastered the art of growing great vine-ripened tomatoes and I do that every year, producing over 100 lb of them. I put them in salads, sandwiches, sauces, give them away, have gallons of self-canned tomato products on hand. So, I got over not liking tomatoes!

I try to eat a salad every day. There are infinite ways you can make salads. Salads can be very delicious and I usually don't regard them as something I do because I should. I always include green leafy vegetables (lately, principally romaine lettuce), but include a lot of things I really like. I enjoy them.

 

[Herr Kutz]

As a youngster I didn't like tomatoes, those gushy things you find in salads, WTH. It took me a long time to appreciate how good tomatoes can be. Thing is, what you get in the markets (even today, unless it's maybe a farmer's market, but back when I was a kid, every time) is a tomato that was picked green and "ripened" in trays to look like a ripe tomato, but isn't. Those red tomatoes you find in supermarkets are really just green tomatoes that have reddened, they aren't ripe, which means vine-ripened on the plant. They look like a real tomato but they are not. Some fruits and vegetables will ripen after picking, but not a tomato. A prematurely picked tomato lacks flavor, and is worth spitting out, little more.

Onions are God's gift to cooks. They are the best thing to happen to a kitchen. One of my cousins from childhood would eat raw onions, still does. They are great raw and cooked.

I have over many years mastered the art of growing great vine-ripened tomatoes and I do that every year, producing over 100 lb of them. I put them in salads, sandwiches, sauces, give them away, have gallons of self-canned tomato products on hand. So, I got over not liking tomatoes!

I try to eat a salad every day. There are infinite ways you can make salads. Salads can be very delicious and I usually don't regard them as something I do because I should. I always include green leafy vegetables (lately, principally romaine lettuce), but include a lot of things I really like. I enjoy them.

I eat a salad, sometimes two, most days now mostly for the health/fiber benefits. Been stuck on the Costco caesar kits over the past year and starting to get tired of them, but toppings like grape tomatoes and/or sliced turkey make them palatable. Costco must have me pegged though because they upped the price of the salads by 50 cents a couple months ago. I’m getting worried about the grape tomato situation because I haven’t found Cherrubs the past two visits to Costco, only other brands which for some reason do not taste good at all. I think the other brands let the grape tomatoes over ripen.

 

[Muse]

I eat a salad, sometimes two, most days now mostly for the health/fiber benefits. Been stuck on the Costco caesar kits over the past year and starting to get tired of them, but toppings like grape tomatoes and/or sliced turkey make them palatable. Costco must have me pegged though because they upped the price of the salads by 50 cents a couple months ago. I’m getting worried about the grape tomato situation because I haven’t found Cherrubs the past two visits to Costco, only other brands which for some reason do not taste good at all. I think the other brands let the grape tomatoes over ripen.

I hit Costco every two weeks these days. I always have some of their organic romaine lettuce, organic broccoli pieces, organic celery, organic carrots in the fridge. They have lots of other salad fixings. I get the balance of my fruits and vegetables that I don't grow myself at a great local produce-centric super market.

 

[Herr Kutz]

I hit Costco every two weeks these days. I always have some of their organic romaine lettuce, organic broccoli pieces, organic celery, organic carrots in the fridge. They have lots of other salad fixings. I get the balance of my fruits and vegetables that I don't grow myself at a great local produce-centric super market.

I go every 4-7 days and stick with prewashed lettuce because I’m much more likely to eat a salad when there is little work involved. I bought some of their broccoli and dip it in hummus. Tastes decent.

 

[snoopy7548]

Tomatoes are good. I buy the vine tomatoes from the supermarket and they always have a great taste. I either chop them into side salads or eat them whole. My local supermarket tends to source produce from as local-places as possible - the vine-ripened tomatoes usually come from NY, and are typically $2/lb.

I think most people who complain about grocery store tomatoes are buying the cheap ones - the pre-packaged ones or the big hothouse tomatoes with zero flavor. The Roma tomatoes are hit or miss, while the vine tomatoes seem to be more consistent in quality/flavor.

For salads, I buy the green leaf lettuce bunches. I used to buy romaine but I read that green leaf has slightly more nutrients, plus I find that green leaf stays fresh longer and you get more out of them than the romaine bunches. Making a salad is as easy as rinsing ~3-4 full leafs, patting them dry with a towel, and tearing them up into smaller pieces.

 

[mindless1]

There are many varieties of tomatoes. My local grocers mostly sell some that have a slightly translucent looking skin, are more firm, have a very long shelf life, but much less taste, less sweet and lower acidity. I suspect that variety just results in less product loss due to less bruising and the long shelf life.

I saved some seeds once and grew them the next year. Same thing, not as good as the rest I grow, though I couldn't even tell you what I grow now because they're the result of many years of cross pollination and seed saving.

 

[Muse]

I go every 4-7 days and stick with prewashed lettuce because I’m much more likely to eat a salad when there is little work involved. I bought some of their broccoli and dip it in hummus. Tastes decent.

The cool thing about my Costco's 3 lb. bags of cut-up organic broccoli is that it keeps sooooooo long. Broccoli has incredible resistance to rot when refrigerated in plastic bags, which is how it comes. Their bags typically have a sell date 1/2 a week from when I buy it, but it will keep for weeks, easily until I'm done with it.

I don't want prewashed lettuce pieces, figure it's going to retain freshness a lot better when in head (not cut up). I have a great salad spinner, it's quick and easy to wash my personally cut-up lettuce to my satisfaction.

Making a salad is as easy as rinsing ~3-4 full leafs, patting them dry with a towel, and tearing them up into smaller pieces.

A salad spinner not only washes lettuce, it effectively dries it. I've owned only one, and it works as good as day one and is 25 years old.

 

[Muse]

Same thing, not as good as the rest I grow, though I couldn't even tell you what I grow now because they're the result of many years of cross pollination and seed saving.

I grow a hybrid, Early Girl, and if I saved the seeds they wouldn't produce the same tomato. It's the nature of hybrids. I've grown tomatoes from seed but it's a lot of work and part of it is keeping the young plants warm enough. As soon as the weather and ground are warm enough to allow the seedlings to grow I buy a 6 pack of Early Girl for something like $3. I got this year's at Home Depot for the first time.

 

[Herr Kutz]

The cool thing about my Costco's 3 lb. bags of cut-up organic broccoli is that it keeps sooooooo long. Broccoli has incredible resistance to rot when refrigerated in plastic bags, which is how it comes. Their bags typically have a sell date 1/2 a week from when I buy it, but it will keep for weeks, easily until I'm done with it.

I don't want prewashed lettuce pieces, figure it's going to retain freshness a lot better when in head (not cut up). I have a great salad spinner, it's quick and easy to wash my personally cut-up lettuce to my satisfaction.A salad spinner not only washes lettuce, it effectively dries it. I've owned only one, and it works as good as day one and is 25 years old.

Yeah I have a bag of the broccoli in my fridge now.

Sad may be easy to wash, but it easily doubles the time (at a minimum) of making salad. Not to mention the extra dish washing for the spinner (dish washing tablets are expensive when you need to buy the good ones). So I end up paying the convenience tax which winds up making me eat more salad in the long run.

 

[zinfamous]

48 hours max after first storing it.

Eating old food, even if it doesn't make you acutely ill, represents a bacterial load that affects your gut microbiome. I don't think it's optimal to eat old food. That's my theory anyway. Shit is fucking gross.

It's like we haven't been using refrigeration for over a century now, and fermenting and curing foods for millennia....

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

48 hours max after first storing it.

Eating old food, even if it doesn't make you acutely ill, represents a bacterial load that affects your gut microbiome. I don't think it's optimal to eat old food. That's my theory anyway. Shit is fucking gross.

Snowflake happy hour doesn't start for another 45 minutes. We'll call you at the bar.

 

[harvey_43]

I am eating leftover since my childhoot and i am still fit and fine

 

[tcG]

FFS With 48 hours I'm talking about something like cooked rice or soup, not cheese or beef jerky.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

FFS With 48 hours I'm talking about something like cooked rice or soup, not cheese or beef jerky.

You're still a snowflake.

 

[snoopy7548]

FFS With 48 hours I'm talking about something like cooked rice or soup, not cheese or beef jerky.

I'm eating soup I made on Sunday. Still tastes great!

 

[TeeJay1952]

I'm eating soup I made on Sunday. Still tastes great!

Yes but I think the question here is Which Sunday?