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Contributor: Bignuf Bignuf
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Originally posted by - Kira -
Two or three for the main items. For the dessert, until it's gone, which could be longer than four days if I'm not being awful.
Oh...I forgot Deserts. I never think of those as "left overs". More like "how much is left"????

Like you, we tend to think that if we eat it all in a couple sittings it is worse then eating it all stretched over time. Nothing true about it, of course, but eating a whole chocolate cake in four days FEELS less guilty then eating it in TWO days. Trick of the brain,I guess.
11/23/2011
Contributor: GravyCakes GravyCakes
i'll eat them for as long as we have them, which is usually only 2 or 3 days.
11/23/2011
Contributor: married with children married with children
I used to take left overs to work every day for lunch. But now the wait at the microwave is way too long, I would miss my lunch break if I had to wait to use one. I dont mind eating left overs. It saves me the time of making a lunch at 4 in the morning.
11/23/2011
Contributor: MrWishyWashy MrWishyWashy
I usually try to go with left-overs no more than a day.
11/23/2011
Contributor: WhoopieDoo WhoopieDoo
Honestly, if it smells ok, it's a go for me.

But I'm a pig, so leftovers don't have much of a chance to go bad.
11/23/2011
Contributor: voenne voenne
I sometimes try to cook something that will at least last me a couple days, but no more than that. Being vegan is difficult for me in having to cook all the time. I try not to make anything beyond that, because I have a chronic nausea problem and find myself not being able to finish what I've cooked before it goes bad.
11/23/2011
Contributor: onehotmomma onehotmomma
I only save it for 1- 2 days afterwards, however, I only do that if I KNOW I'm going to use it. If not, I just freeze it to use another time, usually for kids' lunches since they don't eat much.
11/23/2011
Contributor: Sinfully Sinfully
1-2 days for me.
11/23/2011
Contributor: ilbelsole ilbelsole
I will eat leftovers for at most 3 days afterwards, as long as I'm not sick of the food.
11/23/2011
Contributor: TameTemptress TameTemptress
I will eat them the next day, but not after that. My husband will eat them several days later if I haven't thrown them out yet.
11/23/2011