We like our dinners better the second time around. Especially soups. Harry never minds eating something twice (or maybe 3 times) if it was good to begin with. I feel sorry for your friend!

yes I do! Means I didn't have to make anything that day! LOL

Yes......yes....yes....we love leftovers and I always cook to have leftovers.........I agree that lots of things taste better the second day.....

Yep. I don't cook for just 2 of us, I cook like I'm feeding a family.
Not always by design....some things naturally grow. Can anyone say Scalloped Potatoes? I always make a big dish of them.
And they do taste better the next day, as well.

Roast beef; the leftovers are hot beef sandwiches. I'll roast a whole chicken, and love the leftovers.

I wonder what your friend does if she makes a meatloaf, a roast meat, pot of chili or stew. Does he just make himself a sandwich? I hope so!

You mean Encores...of course. That is the way I cook these days. Most meals are planned for 2, if not three "bows". DH would rather have those than take his turn cooking. Not sure which one of us is the most tired of cooking etc. Nanny

Some things are better later. Definitely have leftovers but they're remakes. Just today I had some leftover sloppy joes and some hamburger & hash brown (somewhat of a "hash" I guess.) Too good to throw away, not enough of each for a meal and I figured they should go together well so I mixed them up, added a little ketchup as it needed more moisture and I put them on tortillas. Made great burritos. I grew up with leftovers and truly believe it's shameful to waste food. And as mentioned it's often difficult to make a small amount of some things. By the time you add everything into it, it gets big.

Things like ribs I always make more. They reheat well and are great cold. I often cook up a bunch of hamburgers and again either warm them up or eat them cold. Much better snack food than chips or crackers. And if you don't overcook them they're not dried out and taste the same as fresh.

I've got a cousin who claims he won't eat leftovers. I told him he was a fool and a liar because first I've seen him eat a lot of leftovers, like sloppy joes, and he eats TV dinners and what are TV dinners? LEFTOVERS! Plus he eats pie and stuff that didn't just come out of the oven, fruit that's on the shelf. That's leftovers too. Lefse is a remake of mashed potatoes so isn't that leftovers? I've seen them divide up things into smaller portions, again "leftovers". And so on.

Now I'll say that some things do not reheat well and occasionally if I have a little leftover I won't bother with it but for the most part, nothing wrong with leftovers.

I do but my husband doesn't.

Sue

My DH will eat anything~~he mixes up what is ever left in the refer if I am not home and chomps it down~~~I like to plan for left overs

we do indeed! food is too epensive to pitch, tho I know a few folks that do it.

My father would not eat leftovers. Even if my mother froze them, tried to make them look different he always knew :o)

DH loves left overs. That is all he takes to work with him. I only like certain types of leftovers. But will eat most to make it easy.

I usually take leftovers for lunch at work.

yes, but certain foods are better the next day others not so much, pot roast, meatloaf, spagetti,are all very good the next day, hubby also loves pinto beans and ham, and always wants left overs the next day.
In todays economy, it only makes sence, I too plan for leftovers when I cook.

Yes, I do like leftovers but I have found that I'll usually only eat them once....after that....they are not that appetizing to me. I couldn't eat something 3 days in a row for example or if I just leave it in the fridge for someone else to eat...it would have green fuzz on it the next time I checked the container. lol BTDT I know that I won't eat it. On lots of things, I find that they are better the second day after the flavors have melded together and sometimes, if it's really good, I'll freeze what's left and have it some other time. I too agree that it's just too expensive to toss food.

Yes, all the time. I make up a big pot of something, like chili or spaghetti and the kids and I eat them for 2-3 days in a row. I also take them to work with me. I made homemade chicken noodle soup the other day and it was finished up by Johanna today. Sometimes things aren't liked well the first time they were made so they get thrown out...like the chicken alfredo stuff I made...I have to throw it out because it's now beyond my three day rule. I'm the only one who ate the leftovers of it and it wasn't that great...jarred alfredo sauce, yuck.

We don't eat just leftovers. I do creative cooking with leftovers. Cut up chicken/beef/bison with macoroni/noodles/onions/and anything else I have. No creative cooking taste the same. Or I tell the family I have been watching Food Network and all I hear is OH NO, not again.

Me? Depends on what it is. Soup or stew, yes, will eat it many days in a row.

Hubs, well, he does most of his own cooking now, due to a new diet and will plan for leftovers and reworks them into something new while I am out of the house.

He does a great job using up this and that.

Thank goodness I have always liked left overs. That is what I will be eating a lot of now, that I am cooking for just me. :)

Today it was cabbage soup.

Moni

Yes, we eat leftovers. I delibertly cook so as to have at least one other meal from what I cooked today. And some things can be recycled into something completely different with a little planning. The invention of the microwave made reheating most leftovers much easier and more palatable.

My neighbor says that her husband will not eat leftovers. I told her that I would seriously look into getting a new husband!

Only meatloaf, and turkey fixins...the rest not so much.

We eat leftovers all the time, and like many others, I intentionally plan my meals that way. Sometimes I freeze leftovers, sometimes I make them into something else, and sometimes we warm them up exactly as they were to begin with!

Thirty one years ago DH told me he doesn't eat left overs......ha ha ha then your gonna starve!!!! because I worked nights & weekends and he doesn't know how to fry an egg. lol

Very few things I'll eat leftover. No worries though, DH is a garbage disposal, so not much goes to waste.

I love leftovers. I deliberately double recipes so that I'll have enough for another meal. Reheating in the microwave beats cooking a meal from scratch.

I work between 40-45 hours a week; the communte is about 30 minutes. When I cook on the weekends, you can bet it is to prepare those leftovers other ways during the week.

In about an hour, my dear husband will be opening up a delicious sandwich stuffed with (leftover) meatloaf from Saturday night's dinner! Tomorrow evening, we will be having leftover roasted chicken with pineapple stuffing that we had last night...I'm going to put different salad and veggies with it.

I need to use leftovers to survive the work week!

I suppose the man who won't eat 'leftovers' wants his wife to make his lunch and snacks for him -- or will, when he retires. She is going to be sorry she didn't train him right from the start! (For some reason this reminds me of some men I've known who were jealous of their kids.)

What I'll serve again depends on the food. Sometimes, with stew or soup, I don't ever serve it until it's been in the fridge for a day! OTOH I can't think of a good way to recycle a leftover fried egg, or toast! LOL (Hah! Isn't toast bread, recycled?)

I will eat left over meat like ham, turkey,roast beef and steak or meatloaf. I like leftover meats cold on sandwiches. Love cold rare steak by itself.

Other than soup, chili or sauces that blend their flavors sitting for a day not much else.

Most people I eat out with take anything left home with them. If the dogs can't eat it right when I get home then I never take a doggie bag. The thought of eating food that has sat and traveled repels me.

I've never eaten sandwiches that were made ahead for lunch. I'd take the ingredients and put them together at lunch time. Even as a child. i came home for lunch but if I ate at school my mother would pack something like cheese and crackers , cold fried chicken or salami some good bread to eat it with. Never a sandwich. To me a sandwich is a leftover and not fit for consumption after an hour.

Love left-overs. Though DH once said that's all we have. Yep, I buy them at the left-over store!

I love leftovers. I mean, I am eating food I love to begin with, why wouldn't I look forward to more of it? I don't usually eat leftovers right away - I'll freeze most things. Then I get to relive the joy further down the line.

There really wasn't any such thing as leftovers when I was growing up, not with 6 mouths to feed. When Mom made something really good, you never knew when you were going to taste it again.

Yes, I like leftovers and so does my husband. I don't understand why someone wouldn't.

If you don't like leftovers can you explain why?

DH and I both love leftovers. There are only two of us and I always cook enough for a family so we have leftovers. I never understood the concept of "cooking for two". If you're going to all the trouble make it worthwhile. I guess "cooking for two" is for people who don't like leftovers.

We both love leftovers... and always have a plethora of goodies in the refrigerator... Usually one day a week is "must go" day and we just clean out what ever little bits and pieces of stuff are left from even the leftovers..and it is like a buffet table with lots of choices and flavors.... After the "must go" day, the rest goes to the pooches if there is anything left at all...