I read somewhere where the user claimed that in their household they never eat food that is left over but it is fed to the dustbins not even to the poor or to animals.
I think wasting food is a crime. One should know the art of cooking just enough for the household. I knew of a German friend who was perfect in that all of them would sit together at the dining table. Bring in all the food and before getting up from the table every grain of food was finished.
I do admit one needs to be an expert to judge the exact food one needs to cook or order.But leftover food need not be thrown.
1. Leftover food should be frozen for future use. It need not be used the very next day.
2. Heating leftover food changes its taste. It should therefore be steamed. It gets its moisture back.
3. Some food like dry vegetables could be used to make cutlets. It is believed that is how cutlets and patties were born.
4. Leftover chapaties could be cut into small squares and deep fried. They taste good as a snack.
5. Leftover rice can be used to make pullao, biryani, tomato rice and even rice pudding.
6. There are so many uses for leftover bread. We have the bread wada, bread upama, and the famous bread pudding.
1. Two cups leftover rice
2. Eggs
3. 2 cups milk
4. 2 tablespoon sugar
5. Any flavouring
Beat eggs and mix all the ingredients together. Pour in a buttered dish. It could be either steamed or baked. Caramelizing the buttered dish gives it a more pleasant taste and colour too.
There is no limit to what can be done with leftover food and when I read that post that talks of throwing away food I felt quite uncomfortable.
This is not just for those who are financially hard up. Wasting food does not make any one richer.
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I love leftovers. I don't do this any more because there are usually no leftovers at my house. But when I was a kid, my late mother used to like smother her meats in gravy. Smothered chicken. Smothered pork chops. Etc. There was never any meat left but sometimes there was leftover gravy. I would save it and the next day for lunch, I would warm up the gravy and pour it over 2 slices of bread. It was sooo good! It was just bread and gravy but I loved it! :)
It is meaningless when food is thrown away. Apart from money spent just look at the labour that has gone into preparing it. The leftover curry when condensed tastes delicious.
Once saw a documentary on television showing how much food Americans were throwing away. Mind you! They hadn't even cooked the food! They were throwing away food that was in their freezer that they bought to eat, but never got around to eating it! Can you believe it? That would bother my conscience. :(
I have seen the pantries of many there. They do not even know what they have in there and keep buying more stuff. My first visit to a restaurant in New York shocked me when I saw garbage bins packed to capacity
I agree... I never throw away food. I find someway to eat everything I cook.
I do the same theresa rice I freeze or otherwise I have 2 dogs I put scraps into the pot and cook it up for my dogs they love it gravy curry etc put on bread next day tastes delicious
I have always saved food and eaten it a few days later after steaming. It tastes as fresh and it does not bore me either.
People think throwing away food is a status symbol
In my family, it is a big no for wasting food. As much as possible, all the leftover should be consumed. If it cannot be consumed by domesticated cats or dogs, then it is better to feed to pigs. It can be recycled and be used wisely.
In some occasion, some people would put into fridge and eat it on the following days. As long as it is not spoiled and can still be eaten.
We never feed leftovers to our pets. They have their own different food. All leftovers are stacked up and frozen to be eaten later on may be even after few days.
First of all those people who say that cannot eat left overs are just pretenders. What is so wrong with eating left over good that has only been refrigerated for only one or two days? It is not spoilt neither does it small so why reject it? Anyway we all he e out reasons but I don't agree with people of that nature. I personally feel so bad when I see people throw away food when there are people out there who are scavenging in the dustbins like dogs to find something to eat. Instead of throwing that good why not store it well in a container and give it to someone who is begging on Thu street? To them it wouldn't want to know if it was cooked yesterday or the day before all that want is something to munch on.to contribute on the part of cooking just enough could be tricky sometimes, why not add just a little more so that if may a visitor comes calling in without notice that can eat we all know about those kinds of visitors who just decide to come over your place because they were in the neighbourhood. So at least keep a little more for such things when they come up. I tried to do that one time in my house then my sister passed by and she happened to be hungry when she asked for good i told her that we had just had lunch and her next answer was why do you cook little good don't you have good in this house? Then I told her no that's not the issue I just don't want left overs and she said you chasing away visitors because you don't want to cook. I felt so bad and ever since whenever I cook there is always an extra plate just in case hahaha.
Your sister is so right.
We always have food just in case someone turns up without notice there is something to feed them.