Jul 10, 2008
Let unwanted foodstuff get moldy. Then your conscience will finally let you dispose of it.
Do you sometimes refrigerate leftovers simply because you’d feel guilty throwing them away, all the while knowing you’ll just toss them later?
Subscribe to 22 Words
Recent Comments
- Will on How to become a wine expert and other advice for inexperienced wine lovers
- Stephen May on It’s not a slide, it’s a proto-steampunk ghetto park bench for one.
- Stephen May on Who or whom? A clear, simple answer from a professional grammarian
- Stephen May on Elitists in Minnesota town Lino Lakes approve English-only resolution
- Will Adair on How to become a wine expert and other advice for inexperienced wine lovers
Sponsors
Categories
- Arts in General (24)
- Bible (66)
- Blogging (153)
- Brevity (25)
- Constructive Criticism (268)
- Faith (210)
- Food & Drink (54)
- Language (214)
- Literature (104)
- Love (86)
- Miscellanea (286)
- Movies (14)
- Music (155)
- parenting (153)
- Personal (182)
- Questions (255)
- Quotes (41)
- Recommendations (129)
- Sports (8)
- Uncategorized (8)
- Visual Art (27)
- Writing (56)
Archives
- July 2010 (107)
- June 2010 (79)
- May 2010 (89)
- April 2010 (62)
- March 2010 (21)
- February 2010 (25)
- January 2010 (32)
- December 2009 (47)
- November 2009 (63)
- October 2009 (45)
- September 2009 (40)
- August 2009 (40)
- July 2009 (40)
- June 2009 (37)
- May 2009 (47)
- April 2009 (51)
- March 2009 (40)
- February 2009 (31)
- January 2009 (44)
- December 2008 (47)
- November 2008 (54)
- October 2008 (50)
- September 2008 (41)
- August 2008 (45)
- July 2008 (51)
- June 2008 (51)
- May 2008 (66)
- April 2008 (74)
- March 2008 (71)
- February 2008 (19)
Reader Recommendations
Some of the books and music that you, the readers, have recommended here over time:
Twitter Recommendations
Theme based on Derek Punsalan's Grid Focus.
Guilty as charged. Just a moment ago I threw out perfectly good red grapes. Perfectly good for communion. But what wounds my conscience more is the amount of money we throw out in those wasted foods. It almost makes dining out feel thrifty!
I don’t. I just chuck it. I only save stuff that I will eat the next day, because I’m weird about leftovers.
But I moved back in with my parents, and my mom is the queen of the conscience-salving leftovers. Blegh. Me no likey. So every now and then I go through and empty about a dozen containers of moldy who-knows-what, and then I’m can stick my head in the fridge to scrounge without fearing for my life.
(In my mom’s defense, this is probably the only area in which I am more tidy/clean than she is.)
All the time. Just another way procrastination rears its ugly head.
Based on the picture, I think your stuff’s getting mouldy because you’re leaving the fridge door open. Happy to help.
I’ve done that, but I’ve found that dealing with the smelly moldy food just ain’t worth it. This is yet another area where just being honest with yourself is valuable. What are the chances that I’m going to work to heat this up and eat it later? Often the answer is not bloody likely. I’ve learned to throw that away.
yes.
There’s a pot of chicken and dumplings dreading my return home to dispose of them.
I have a friend that keeps leftovers way too long…like two weeks…and eats them (like hotdishes, chili). I don’t know how she is still living.
I’m with Adoption Road. Every leftover I chuck never before it’s moldy feels like a moral defeat. I wish I could think of a better way to get at them sooner.
YES! Throwing out moldy or liquified food is so almost exilerating. Throwing out questionable food just doesn’t do it for me.
Yes. And we do the same thing with a different though slightly related item: leftover food from restaurants.
Every time they ask me if I’d like a box, I say yes because it makes me feel like I’m doing all humanity a favor. But somehow they never get eaten, and I know that’ll be the case.
Bummer.
yes, but i’m actually pretty good at deluding myself into believing that there IS a chance it will get used before it goes bad. it may be slight, but there is always a chance.
Yes!
oh yes. and in our house of five girls, the moldy food adds up quite quickly. we have fun cleaning out the fridge!
Funny you should mention it. Tonight is my long intended fridge cleaning night!
Almost every lunch that I eat at work is leftovers from supper from the week before, but we still find moldy food on a regular basis
Keeping leftovers you know you’re going to throw out later? This only creates more dishes to wash later. God forbid!
I just send them with my husband to work the next day for his lunch..or try to make my children eat them. I hate moldy food, so usually don’t let it get to that point.
Yes, I do. I try not to let it get moldy, but definitely smelly. My reasoning is that I’ll throw it in the trash right before it is ready to go out of the house that way it doesn’t stink… but sometimes I forget!
Well, that’s not being green…well maybe a bit green,…but not the kind of green we aim for at our house…the chichi’s do get to feast on some of them though…we can’t afford to toss them.
somehow i became a discipline leftover-eater, even though as a kid i hated them passionately. since i’m usually cooking for one, there are ALWAYS leftovers, because cooking one serving makes no sense. it’s kind of nice, though, because then i always have lunch and/or dinner for the next day.
I just did this not too long ago with some vegetable soup. I threw some Saran-Wrap over it and let it congeal.
If it’s still edible, I will eat it. The only reason food goes bad in our fridge is because I’m under the impression that my wife is saving it for something…
Wow, sounds like you’ve been to our house!
Oh. Yeah. Guilty. Very.
[...] could be wrong, but I don’t think I’ve ever done a post on food before. However, this post on 22 Words cracked me up because I relate to it so much. In college, I’d make mac and cheese [...]
No way! Having to clean out moldy containers is far worse in my mind than throwing out leftovers. The whole container must go then!
All the time! If I can’t remember when we had it the first time, I usually get rid of it. Hubby on the other had will eat anything that is not green and furry.
[...] Piper presents, “The Single Dude’s Philosophy of Leftovers.” (As it turns out, we’re not the only ones. Which is encouraging. Perhaps there’s hope [...]
IN the days of starch-I would roll up dampened shirts , put them in my frig , to iron later, (hate ironing ) a week later, take them out to re-wash again ! Starting over- tisk-tisk! Left-overs ? guilty as charged –