If you freeze it and eat it later that's called meal prep.

Tupperware?!? In this household we wash the plastic takeout containers and reuse them for years until the become brittle and shatter.

I'm too cheap to throw it out. So my role in the house is to eat all the leftovers before they go bad

Sometimes I have even thrown it out with the tupperware because it's gotten so bad that opening that container would probably poison everything in a 100m radius.

I call the bottom shelf of my grandmothers fridge the petri dish for this exact reason.

Constantly puts shit in tupperware, puts it down there, and forgets about it until i find it, and by then its become its own microscopic ecosystem.

And I still eat it - unsweetened cotton candy and all

Am I the only one who thinks leftovers make the best breakfasts?

This happens every time because there is something else in the fridge that needs to be cooked so it won't spoil. Then you eat the new dish instead of the old one since you just made it and the old one goes bad....

But then you keep cooking new stuff because you don't want to touch the x-day-old food that you're not interested anymore and want something freshly cooked to eat. You'll get around to it evenshoely, for shooor

I feel seen.

Is this by chance a lasagna best before '97?
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My mother once bypasses the refrigerator part and accidentally put leftovers in the cupboard over the oven. After a week or two, the smell had us thinking something crawled into the oven vent from outside and died. It took me noticing something bubbling up from between two casserole dishes to realize what happened.