☺ Thanks for the chuckle, Sherry!!

Mmmmmmmmm, I LOVE it when I have some leftovers (planned overs). Tonight I'm reheating some roasted chicken thighs and will just heat up some chicken broth and butter and put some couscous in it and then roast some asparagus - a very easy and tasty meal.

We just finished eating leftovers last night, Chili Rellenos Casserole. Tonight is $5 Fridays....Papa Murphy's pizza.

I have this new-to-me Wolf oven and love cooking in it. It's got hydraulic lifts on the oven door hinges. A pretty blue interior. It's display is very user friendly. :0) Next week the range exhaust hood arrives. This place .....is kind of like camping out.....lol

I made lasagna about a month ago and froze most of it. We're having that tonight. I love having leftovers and not really having to cook some nights.

No leftovers, but I stayed home due to rain and wind. Made a Tuscan bean soup, for friend having cancer surgery, and had enough for me to have some, which I froze. Thawed it out today, yum, and had with cornbread.

glenda, I also thawed some bean soup for supper. It was sausage and white bean. I had leftover cornbread which I broke up and put in it right before it went into the freezer.

Nope, but I was lucky that my neighborhood green grocer had braised short ribs with noodles available this afternoon. They are fabulous and on the raw, bitter night, they will be especially good!

Left over tortellini vegetable soup sprinkled with cheese.

Going to dinner at friends' place tonite so I doubt I will be eating leftovers :-)

As to leftovers in general, I have mixed feelings. Some, like meatloaf, roast chicken, Thanksgivng dinner, etc. are wonderful and versatile! And I love homemade soups/stews and pastas/casseroles but they are very hard to make in small (for one) portions, I have no room to freeze and I just get tired of them after one or two more meals. I do share with my sister nearby (and she with me) but I still wind up tossing a lot. I made tamale pie earlier this week, had it again a couple of times and tossed about a third of it.......I just had enough!!

My favorite leftovers are the 'doggy bags' I bring home from eating out. I seldom manage more than about half a meal so the second meal is a bonus and almost always tastes just as good as it did in the restaurant!

A great many foods taste better as leftovers, the flavors meld and textures improve. There are lots of things we make because of the great leftovers.

I had a bowl of last night's Pho for lunch today and enjoyed it almost as much.

Tonight we will be roasting a chicken in the air fryer, making a rice pilaf with lots of chopped veggies, and some oven roasted Brussels sprouts. The chicken and rice make great leftovers, not so much the sprouts.

We are finishing off the mung dal that I made a couple of days ago. I will probably served a multi-grain sourdough baguette with it and call it done.

At our house, we not only love leftovers, we plan for them. Leftovers mean that we can have more of something that we haven't had quite enough of, that we can skip a night or two during the week of preparing meals or that they can be frozen for a meal at some future date. And, as rhizo said, leftovers often taste better after a day or two.

rhizo, when we have leftover sprouts, hubby likes to drop them in a jar of pickle juice or he makes his own brine and after a day or two he's enjoying pickled sprouts. They really are quite good.

Making a big batch of something saves time and money. Particularly items like pasta sauce and chili that benefit by longer cooking, I make a batch and then freeze portions. I bought the larger size slow cooker and make turkey chili sometimes which my son loves when he stops by for lunch.

There are only two of us for most meals now, but we still enjoy the things I made when we had two teen boys at home. I don't make them often, but do every now and then, like the lasagna mentioned above. We have the first night, sometimes two, then I freeze the rest. I cut into sections for one person, freeze, then wrap tightly. We pull out one or two as needed.

No leftovers here. Went out with my golf group tonight for our end of the year dinner.............will be having some leftover salmon tomorrow night, or as Sherry would say, precooked dinner. :-)))) And, Sherry, I do the same with lasagna. Cut up squares and wrap individually before freezing.

Not tonight, but, ordered pizza, so, leftovers tomorrow and a fresh salad! Big pot of chili for Sunday and Monday!

I made hamburgers. I sent my husband "an ESP message" to bring a quart of oysters, but evidently he didn't get it....or read the text I sent or answer the phone the 3 times I called him. (He did bring the bananas I asked for this morning. ) ;)

So we will have oysters tomorrow night.

As for left overs, I will have them if it is something I cooked the day before...but I don't keep food around for days on end. Possibly 3 days, if it is something like gumbo...will have it a second night and for breakfast the next day, but that is the limit. I figure if something isn't used up quickly, it will just sit in the fridge and "grow whiskers". There is always some animal here that will eat it...so I don't feel like it is wasted.

I made a big pot of vegetables and beef soup in the pressure cooker and my guest brought a big crusty loaf of French bread to sop up the soup. We had a great time visiting and enjoyed our soup. The temperature has dropped here in Houston and it's a chilly day.

I love leftovers because, as Sherry pointed out, it's a precooked meal! However, two days in a row eating the same dinner is great, third day, not so much. Today we had delicious leftover crock pot beef stew along with rolls from our favorite bakery.

We had leftovers for lunch today and usually do have leftovers at lunch time. I can eat leftovers for lunch and supper for 3 days in a row. DH has a bit more trouble doing that. He wants something different for supper. Although I do like a change sometimes. Tonight for supper I made myself a melted cheese and tomato sandwich. DH who likes to show off that he can eat anything had a can of soup and a half sandwich on the side. Definitely both were very tasty and not leftovers.

Tomorrow it's back to leftovers for me :-)

I agree with Marilyn_c. I have 'planned' leftovers all the time where I make a batch of something and immediately freeze the extra. But I do not let something sit around in the refrigerator for days on end and then eat it.

Leftovers are a fact of life! I deliberately cook most everything in amounts to have leftovers. Most days we have the same main meal 2 days in a row. Yesterday was lasagna, same for today.

No leftovers today but I made a big pan of baked spaghetti so there will be leftovers for next week when I will finish up my fall cleaning. Can't believe how dirty the windows have gotten over the spring/summer.

Leftover chicken parmesan from today's Applebees lunch with sister-in-law, niece, and great niece. Applebees gives such big servings.

Baked spaghetti is something I haven't heard of.

Are some of the ingredients of the final dish put in uncooked or cold?

Elmer, the ingredients (pasta and sauce) are all cooked and stirred together, poured into a casserole dish of some kind, covered with cheese, and baked until the cheese melts.

My mother used to make it.

I don't eat leftovers. Exceptions are corned beef, and my, homemade, fried rice and egg foo yung.

Hubby loves leftovers. He could eat meatloaf or spaghetti for five days straight and not be tired of it.

We are having spinach salads tonight, with sauteed mushrooms, warm bacon/Italian dressing, sprinkled with pickled beets, red onion, and hard boiled egg slices. Cheese toast on the side.

SO ate some leftover chili. I mixed in a handful of fritos and another of cheese when i heated it up for him.Not me.

There are very few things i will eat leftover. Pizza, pasta, and one more helping of Thanksgiving stuff,maybe. That's it. I usually don't like leftovers at all. There are only two of us and I am becoming more skilled at cooking just enough for one meal for the two of us. SO is more open to them. I do sometimes make bigger batches of things to portion out and freeze for him for those nights that i work and he would prefer home cooking.

I made beef chow mein a couple of days ago, enough for leftovers. Tonite I had stir-fry over rice, with some leftover. I'm trying to learn to cook less, with still having leftovers, but not a ton of it. Even with 2 of us, I always cooked enough for 4. We both loved leftovers.

Does anyone buy the 5-lb bag of potatoes?? They're so expensive, I only buy 10-lb. I figure even if I have to throw some out, it's still cheaper.

5 lb of potatoes are about 1.70 here...anyway less then $2. I always buy 5 lb.

We had fried oysters tonight.

I think we may average 2 russet-size potatoes a month, or the equivalent in smaller red or yellow. A 5 pound bag would be 3/4s or more thrown away.

Jasdip, I always buy the 10 pound bags unless it is the baby potatoes. I love potatoes and eat them one way or another almost every day. Sometimes the last 3 or 4 get wrinkled and soft.

I had, and am having today, leftover pot roast cooked with a mélange of vegetables: pumpkin, corn, sweet potato, broccoli, onions, cauliflower, carrots, kale (used up remainders and small quantities that I had in the freezer). I am one of those people who will easily eat leftovers for a few days -- but for the sake of a varied diet, will skip a day in between.

Elmer, my recipe for baked spaghetti, the only thing cooked before hand is the spaghetti. It has spaghetti, onions, green peppers, garlic, ground italian sausage or chop meat, spag. sauce, eggs, parmesan & mozzarella cheese, then baked.

I had a well-done roast beef with onions and carrots around it, mashed potatoes and gravy.

Nope. And I'm thrilled! As you may remember, my mom has quit eating or taking her medications, and we three children went to talk to her face to face. We made like we came to see her because she wasn't at church, and we came to say hi. It surely was to find out the severity. She was in bed asleep. Only one glass, no dishes, no trash, the mail still piled up, only Tuesday meds taken. Sigh. Mom got out of bed to to see us. As sister and i were situating her doctors appointments, rarely seen bro was talking to her, along with his girlfriend and two kids, she must've thought someone said something about pizza. Undoubtedly she misheard something. The girlfriends kids latched onto that and said pizza I want pizza! I jokingly popped up in the room about that time and said pizza I want pizza! She was on board with eating pizza, so we ate pizza. I handed her a small stack of mail for her to go through that looked important, and her pile of medications. She took the medications and went through the mail. if she said she wanted to wait 3 hours and eat pizza later on, I would have done it. I think we all would have. It was good to see her eat! She promised to take her medications. We'll see if that sparked something. Crossing fingers!

Rob, don't answer if I am out of line, but is your mom alone? I get the impression she is depressed.

She is incredibly depressed, and refusing to take antidepressants. We're on it, but you can lead a horse to water.....