Aging Parents with Lots of Stuff, and Children Who Don’t Want It

Re:Aging Parents with Lots of Stuff, and Children Who Don’t ... by Benji_San on Monday August 21, 2017 @03:54AM (#15062707)

I'm kind of surprised that some people don't eat leftovers. While it's understandable from a taste perspective the time required to cooking fresh food every day, assuming you cook most meals, seems staggering.

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Re:Aging Parents with Lots of Stuff, and Children Who Don’t ... by SeeDave on Monday August 21, 2017 @06:56AM (#15063554)

My father taught me to never waste meat. Something alongs of the lines of "that animal didn't want to die. So don't it go to waste."

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Re:Aging Parents with Lots of Stuff, and Children Who Don’t ... by dagss on Monday August 21, 2017 @03:20PM (#15066982)

I agree to focus most on the meat, mainly because it takes 10x the resources per pound to produce compared to vegetables, so it's the most valuable resource.

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Re:Aging Parents with Lots of Stuff, and Children Who Don’t ... by zafka on Monday August 21, 2017 @09:49AM (#15064585)

It gives me a warm feeling to hear advice like that being taken to heart. I would like to say that I always do the same, but I know that this will stick in my mind.

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Re:Aging Parents with Lots of Stuff, and Children Who Don’t ... by SeeDave on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @12:08AM (#15069622)

Glad I could share my father's wisdom :)

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Re:Aging Parents with Lots of Stuff, and Children Who Don’t ... by padraic7a on Monday August 21, 2017 @04:56AM (#15062981)

A lot of food is nicer the next day.

Anything spicy improves with a little time, and I've found the same to be true with tomato sauce and cooked cheese - so curries, chillies, lasagna etc etc all improve. soup is often better the next day too.

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Re:Aging Parents with Lots of Stuff, and Children Who Don’t ... by dagw on Monday August 21, 2017 @04:08AM (#15062771)

the time required to cooking fresh food every day, assuming you cook most meals, seems staggering.

Sure, but it's time I enjoy spending. Some people play computer games or watch TV for an hour after work to relax, I cook dinner.

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Re:Aging Parents with Lots of Stuff, and Children Who Don’t ... by emj on Monday August 21, 2017 @04:56AM (#15062976)

Using left overs is a way to cook more complex meals!

If you enjoy handling food then learning about handling left overs is a big part of that. If you go back and look at weekly food schedules from the past you will see patterns, were people cook one type of food day one to have base or ingredient for the next few days of cooking.

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Re:Aging Parents with Lots of Stuff, and Children Who Don’t ... by dagw on Monday August 21, 2017 @05:13AM (#15063077)

My comment was not so much about leftovers as it was about the time it takes to cook. And while I certainly do use the leftovers I end up with, I also try cook in such a way that it minimizes leftovers.

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Re:Aging Parents with Lots of Stuff, and Children Who Don’t ... by chrisper on Monday August 21, 2017 @11:49AM (#15065408)

How is it morally wrong to throw away something I know I'm not going to finish? What am I supposed to do with it? I can't buy smaller sizes. It would be morally wrong if I bought 5 loafs of bread and threw out 4. Then I agree.

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Re:Aging Parents with Lots of Stuff, and Children Who Don’t ... by dagss on Monday August 21, 2017 @02:55PM (#15066774)

The morally wrong part is with not finishing it later. Stick it in the fridge and eat it for lunch or evening snack next day. Or make a meal which includes the leftovers as ingredients (leftover pasta sauce goes as pizza topping, and so on)

It obviously depends on the circumstances. I am more talking about the pattern of wasting, than accidentally wasting food now and then.

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Re:Aging Parents with Lots of Stuff, and Children Who Don’t ... by arkades on Monday August 21, 2017 @07:48AM (#15063832)

This happens at our family gatherings all the time. Our day-to-day consumption habits are a lot healthier than our "treat ourselves at a family gathering" food selection.

At the end of the gathering, everyone "fights" (politely, but very insistently) not to be the ones to take it home, 'cause they'll be forced to not let it go to waste.

I usually throw these because I don't mind binning unhealthy food I can easily replace rather than further harming my health. The latter is a far more useful and expensive acquisition than a quarter-pound of $25/lb cheese.

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Re:Aging Parents with Lots of Stuff, and Children Who Don’t ... by sol_remmy on Monday August 21, 2017 @10:42AM (#15064944)

Is your argument: people are starving in the world, so it is morally wrong to throw away food?

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Re:Aging Parents with Lots of Stuff, and Children Who Don’t ... by dagss on Monday August 21, 2017 @03:14PM (#15066935)

It's more that if you use the rest of the food the next day, you will consume less new food the next day, and thus consume less resources, and a little less resources is spent on food production.

A staggering 50% of the food produced is wasted somewhere along the line. If you look at moving towards a sustainable society, food waste is actually a huge sub-problem of that, which has to be solved at some point, instead of cutting down ever more rainforest every year etc. etc. to sustain the current wasteful lifestyle.

Our parent generation didn't waste food, and the next generation will probably not be able to either (simply from rising prices).

In a world that sustainably generated enough food for everyone, it would not be wrong to throw away food. It might be that we can get there. Food production today is not sustainable, so at least let's not waste it.

If you press me, yes, I'm sure there's an element of "it's in bad taste" there too that made me react so strongly (it's similar to how rich kids pour out good champagne on the floor to display their wealth). That's closer to your suggestion.

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