Maybe I need bigger pots and pans because we never have enough to eat another full meal. Well we are a family of 4, but Charlie and Olive eat pretty small portions. Since we don't have enough leftovers, I always cook a new meal.
When you cook, do you have enough leftovers to eat another meal?
coconut / 8475 posts
Not usually unless DH surprises me with bringing home food without telling me after ive cooked (he thinks its sweet?)
I've started to be a little more heavy handed with the amount of food I make because I am a SAHM now and i'd ike to have healthy meals on hand instead of snacks:/
pomegranate / 3580 posts
Usually! It's just me and DH so I usually make enough for him to take to work the next day. I used to despise leftovers (something about them just weirded me out), but they are actually a big money saver if we can get three of his lunches per week out of them!
pear / 1548 posts
It's just the hubs and I and I take my lunch to work so I usually plan to make enough for leftovers.
olive / 73 posts
It is just the two of us and I usually make a recipe that serves 4 so we can eat it over two nights. I love to cook but having leftovers is nice too!
pomelo / 5321 posts
Yes. I try to cook enough for DS to have leftovers for lunch the next day and I usually have enough for me too. It really depends on what I cook. We rarely have enough leftovers to do dinner for two nights though.
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22276 posts
I'd say maybe half the time. I'd like to make bigger portions so that there is leftovers though.
nectarine / 2797 posts
Yes, we take leftovers for lunch the next day most days. But we'll have to cook more once we have LOs that are eating the meal!
GOLD / wonderful grape / 20289 posts
Dh doesn't like leftovers, so I always purposely try to make just enough for lo and me to have for lunch the next day.
pomegranate / 3716 posts
Yup, definitely! We cook 4 - 5x a week and almost always make enough for the next day's lunch. Otherwise I don't know what we'd eat for lunch!
pomelo / 5073 posts
It depends. If it is just me, then yes, definitely leftovers. If DH is here, sometimes yes, sometimes no. It depends on if e stays up late at night and gets hungry again. If I want leftovers for lunch, I need to serve them when I am serving my plate for dinner.
wonderful clementine / 24134 posts
Even with just the three of us, we usually only have one small portion left after meals. Typically we will either save it for the baby or lunch for one of us.
hostess / wonderful persimmon / 25556 posts
Yup, I make casseroles for dinner so we always have lots leftover. I freeze some and we take some the next day for lunch or have it for dinner.
papaya / 10570 posts
I always make enough for us to have leftovers but we often eat it all in one sitting!!! That's why I'm not slim!! DH is brilliant - if he makes dinner, he will spoon out the additional portions before he brings the food to the table. He can make one pack of minced beef into three meals - a cottage pie for the following day, a bolognese for the freezer and a lasagne for dinner that night - whereas I would just cook it all up and devour it all!!!
pomegranate / 3053 posts
I usually try to cook in huge portions so that we do have leftovers but it never always happen that way. If you don't mind and have time to cook every day I think it's better to do that. You get fresher food! Sometimes I find that leftovers tend to be not as nutritiius, especially with veggies bc all the good stuff has been cook away.
pineapple / 12793 posts
For some reason, I'm incapable of cooking for fewer than eight people so we always have leftovers and a freezer full of goodies. When I was in the first tri, that was the only thing that prevented us for eating takeout every night. I could only stand to be in the kitchen a few times per week.
wonderful grape / 20453 posts
yes, but usually only enough for one extra meal of leftovers.
pomegranate / 3521 posts
Only the 2 of us, but normally if we have leftovers it is only enough for one of us to eat for lunch. We both aren't really crazy about leftovers anyway so it works for us.
GOLD / wonderful pea / 17697 posts
I usually try to make enough so that DH and I both have lunch for the next day.
grapefruit / 4923 posts
usually i do, enough to make 2-3 lunches for both of us, but it's just the two of us right now.
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