In order to make our grocery budget go further, I try and try to get dh to eat leftovers the next night. I have tried to make it into a different kind of meal hoping he won't notice. I hate wasting food! Does anyone else have this problem and how do you handle it? :bang:

i have trouble with leftovers too. not the children but me! sad isn't it. but if it is chili or speghitti i will eat it no problem. anything else i have to force myself to do it. sorry i am no help am i.

I tell my crew that I am NOT a short order cook and do NOT take requests. They eat what I put on the table or do without!

Originally posted by Lori Biever-Launder
I tell my crew that I am NOT a short order cook and do NOT take requests. They eat what I put on the table or do without!


LOL! Me too!

Sometimes I will freeze the leftovers instead of serving them the next night. When I have enough frozen leftovers, we have a potluck kind of dinner where I heat it all up and everybody can pick which of the leftovers they would like. If there is any left, I have it for lunch the next day.

wow , mom 23boys u sound like my mom.. she made one meal and u ate it or did with out

Katiebug, we have those potlucks too......

I am lucky as my dh WANTS to take his lunch to work and will happily eat the leftovers. There are a few dishes that the children and I like more, so on those days I either make him something else or he splurges on a fast food meal. That is very rare, maybe once or twice a month. (Dh is frugal, so he gets something off the McD's/BK value meal!! I send him a 1/2 frozen water bottle and he adds to it all day long.

my dh won't eat leftovers either. i have gone to making smaller meals and whatever is leftover becomes lunch for me and dd the next day. sometimes i will make something that only i like for dinner and make everyone else something else. i freeze my leftovers so i can thaw them out for lunches later in the month.

I am blessed, dh loves leftovers for lunch. When I have a very busy week ahead of me, I will regularly make an extra lg dinner on Sunday and use pieces of it all week. A ham and baked potatoes may become an omlet and hash browns the next night, then ham and pea soup later in the week. If I make pasta with tomatoe sauce on a monday I will boil extra for a pasta salad on Weds. and make extra sauce for french bread pizza on Thurs. Turkey and chicken leftovers become soup, tacos, salad and stir fry. Half the time if I skip a day in between dh doesn't even realize they are leftovers and I certainlt don't advertise!

I freeze some things to use later and I also have a large ziploc bag in the freezer that I add leftover veggies to, whenever I have a fairly full bag I will make either veggie soup or veggie beef soup. I also keep things in the fridge and skip a day before serving it as something else, for instance I'll make spaghetti one day, I'll mix the leftover noodles and sauce in a casserole dish and put it in the fridge and then pull it out two days later and sprinkle cheese on top of it and cover with alum foil and bake it. And I'll serve different veggies and type of bread with it. It's no longer spaghetti but a casserole:toothy: Leftover mashed potatoes can be used to make potato bread or fried into potato cakes. Leftover roast can be chopped up and used in stew, leftover chicken breast can become chicken salad or some type of casserole or even thrown into a salad. Leftover taco seasoned hamburger can be frozen to add to the next time you fix tacos.

Wonder why men are so picky? My fil won't eat leftovers either and dh used to be picky about it until he found out that he was wasting money by wasting the leftovers:toothy: