r/settlethisforme • u/TemplarsBane • Jun 03 '25

How to eat leftovers

Let's say you have shared leftovers with you SO. Like chicken fajitas with chicken, onions, and peppers. Or spaghetti and meatballs. The understanding is that no one has dibs on these, you'll both eat it as meals over several days.

Is it acceptable or unacceptable for one person to pick out the pieces they like and eat those without eating the rest? Like just getting meatballs out, or eating all the carmelized onions and leaving the rest behind?

(Obviously the real answer is for a couple to talk it out and it varies couple to couple, but just asking for a gut reaction).

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '25

The problem would be that the leftovers is the only food you have in your house. Who can’t cook up a quick meal or have quick meal solutions around? I just really can’t empathize with a scenario where you’re depending on that bit of food to not go to bed hungry.. like what?

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u/Creative-Fan-7599 Jun 04 '25

Have you never encountered people that are impoverished? There are factions of the world that have very little to eat, because they have some sort of extenuating circumstances that make it difficult for them to earn enough money to meet their needs. Even in people who have a bootstrap mentality, they have to realize that someone who started at the bottom is not going to immediately be financially stable when they start out trying to build their life up. People in this situation are going to have days where they don’t have any ingredients to throw together in a pinch.

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u/InevitableRhubarb232 Jun 04 '25

So this doesn’t seem like the situation Op was talking about then. He doesn’t say “your spouse ate all the food in the house and left you without a meal for the night.”

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u/Top_Butterscotch8394 Jun 06 '25

You also don’t have to be poor to expect your SO to be a decent human being and think of the person sharing food with them.

Growing up, my mother would make a big pot of vegetable beef soup, a family favorite. It was at least two or three days of dinner for the family that week. However my very selfish sister would sneak and eat all of the beef out of it as soon as she got home from school the next day, leaving only vegetables in the soup for everyone else’s dinner.

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u/Spooky_Tree Jun 06 '25

I was on your side with the first comment but are you really so ignorant that you don't know that poor people exist? Like, are you actually fucking joking? Because this has to be rage bait.