Exatron,

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.

hakunawazo, (edited )

Is this by chance a lasagna best before '97?
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A_Random_Idiot,

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.

Hellstormy,
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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.

MaxVoltage,
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in my experience its best to ooen those into the compost directly

LillyPip,

If you wait long enough, it will throw itself away.

MycelialMass,

You can freeze the bad ones (mark it as bad in case you forget about it) then dump it as one big block and take the trash out before it thaws.

CaptnNMorgan,

Genius

Thcdenton,

And I still eat it - unsweetened cotton candy and all

DanVctr,

This is how new superheros are born

Omgarm,

This is also what keeps life expectancy lower.

gac11,

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

ArmoredThirteen,

A few years ago I had a roommate who just did not give a fuck about food never found enjoyment in it. All the leftovers went to him he’d vacuum up anything completely neutrally. I miss him

fossphi,

It’s me, I’m that roommate.

Well to be honest, I do enjoy and appreciate tasty food. But I don’t mind eating plain bland food (as long as it isn’t disgusting). I don’t really have a high bar. If it’s edible, in it goes

ArmoredThirteen,

You wouldn’t happen to live in the Seattle area and have a roommate opening in like a year would you?

Agent641, (edited )

Same. My folks never eat leftovers. I patrol the fridge each day and assemble a cast of weird and wonderful characters to have for lunch at work.

blanketswithsmallpox,

The joys of having children eventually. Leftovers are just meal prep for lunch the next day!

Establishing a leftovers night is the way to go though.

Scavenger_Solardaddy,

My friends call me “the city council”. Whenever we go eat at restaurants, my job is to clean out everyone’s leftovers. I love it

v4ld1z,
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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

TWeaK,

I feel seen.

smuuthbrane,
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If you freeze it and eat it later that’s called meal prep.

PlantDadManGuy,

The accidental LPT is always in the comments

ininewcrow,
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If you freeze it and forget about it and instead buy another freezer to store more frozen food, that’s called hording.

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

BoxerDevil,

We use butter and cool whip bowls.

Siegfried,

So, is this JoMiran or the micropladtics speaking?

Annoyed_Crabby,

Where i from, some of us call it tupperware too, every plastic container is tupperware.

Contramuffin,

If you are still doing that, don’t do it. Those takeout containers leak microplastics like crazy

nossaquesapao,

Don’t tupperware leak as well?

I mean, unless you use some sort of glass container or metallic, you’re eating microplastics.

jose1324,

Basically not / barely anything

nossaquesapao,

Do you have any source for this information? If they’re plastic containers, they probably leak aa well.

Contramuffin,

I’ve heard that they do, but for certain it must be less than re-using takeout containers.

I, myself, I’ve been avoiding all plastics and using strictly glass where possible

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