Throwing Away Food - Hard

ljbhill

If you have,lots of left overs building up. skip making a whole new dinner for the family on the following night. Just have a left over dinner night or at least try and incoporate the left overs into the next dinner meal. Failing that, freeze it or have it for lunch. I never bin anything.

We make excuses for over eating all the time. That's why we have all ended up on here. The bottom line is, it's hard work losing weight and resisting temptation. Why add to this by eating something we don't even want to! No more excuses!! Especially about eating food we don't want!

Just about re-setting the mindet

♥Amy♥

As a very frugal person, we don't throw out any food in our house (except what my 2 year old doesn't eat off of his plate). But all leftovers get saved. They are either used in my 7 year old's lunch for school (spaghetti, pasta, casseroles, etc.), my DH's lunch for work, sometimes my lunch the next day or if there are small amounts (like what you suggested), then we have a night of just random leftovers. There might be some odd combos of food, but at least it gets eaten and used up instead of wasted. Plus, the bonus side is that I don't have to cook that night besides heating up each person's plate of food items they select

radicalreader

When my three kids were young, I often had little bits of leftovers from every meal.
Too much food for me to eat through as lunches, but not enough to make an entire meal for the family.

I packaged up the leftovers and set them aside. One night a week was our special "Smorgasbord Night". I would arrange all the leftovers on the counter and let people make a plate of their favorites. Then we would have a fun family activity like a special movie or a board game. When the kids got a little older they would make a chalkboard 'menu' listing our options.

My kids are teens now. Just recently one of them finally figured out that our fun family Smorgasbord Night was just me getting rid of leftovers.

rockstarginaa

I refuse to waste food by throwing it away. I usually will save leftovers for the next day or offer to whoever is around.

glypta

When my three kids were young, I often had little bits of leftovers from every meal.
Too much food for me to eat through as lunches, but not enough to make an entire meal for the family.

I packaged up the leftovers and set them aside. One night a week was our special "Smorgasbord Night". I would arrange all the leftovers on the counter and let people make a plate of their favorites. Then we would have a fun family activity like a special movie or a board game. When the kids got a little older they would make a chalkboard 'menu' listing our options.

My kids are teens now. Just recently one of them finally figured out that our fun family Smorgasbord Night was just me getting rid of leftovers.

That sounds really nice, from a family and common-sense point of view!

Sweet_Pandora

In our house we sit down as a family before heading out grocery shopping and plan our dinners for the week and post the meal plan on the fridge.

We usually cook enough to make two meals. If we have spaghetti sauce and squash on Sunday night we will have spaghetti again later in the week. If there is more we sometimes freeze it.

I find that with the meals planned ahead of time we don't scramble at the last minute for dinner ideas and we don't buy more food than we plan on eating.

K

paul121703lilly

Saving it for later is best.

BUT
Just remember, it makes no difference if you eat it or throw it away. The food is made so whether you poop it out or you throw it out - the only difference is your waist line. I was raised this way too, though my parents never made too much food, just enough and in our household as a child, it was "take what you can eat" instead. I was skinny till I left home.

totally hear you on that one, I was skinny till I moved out too...

I have the opposite of the initial problem in this post, I generally throw out food even if it is enough for leftovers bc I know it goes to waste in my house.. my husband is not a fan of eating the same things twice in a row so even if we did put food away it usually goes to waste...