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Tomorrow's dinner, disguised as today's cleanup problem.
means Food that remains uneaten after a meal and gets saved to eat later.
from Straightforward compound English: 'left,' as in remaining behind, plus 'over,' meaning in excess. It shows up in print by the 19th century, first describing unused scraps generally — cloth, materials, odds and ends — before settling into its main job describing yesterday's roast chicken eyeing you from the fridge.
- legal lifespan
- safe three to four days refrigerated
- flavor myth
- some dishes genuinely improve overnight, ask any curry
- economic weight
- households discard roughly a third of food bought
- freezer loophole
- freezing resets the clock almost indefinitely