Amazing how close deubster's uses/habits are to ours (also just two of us). One difference is that the wife will eat her left-overs cold, but not me. She also will not eat anything older than three days. I have relatively good success with left-over pasta.

But, other than this, my grandmother used to do the same thing as deubster's mother, but she ran a boarding house that served meals 3X a day, so there could be as many as five meat courses, eight veggie courses, three different breads, and two kinds of dessert on the table at lunch and dinner. As things got devoured, they got replaced with something else.

In our house, it doesn't go to the dogs unless it is five days old.

Best regards,

William R. Sanders
Online Guest Feedback Coordinator
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide

[email protected]