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When you eat, do you leave any leftovers or clear the plate completely?

Posted - April 22, 2017

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  • If I serve myself, or if someone who knows me well serves me, then I usually clean the plate. If I'm at a restaurant or something, then I almost always leave something left. Though I can often eat a lot cumulatively, I can't always eat a lot in one sitting.
      April 22, 2017 11:53 PM MDT
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  • 7683
    Same here Nevan, if there is too much food,my craving dies immediately;))
      April 22, 2017 11:54 PM MDT
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  • I'm a small Eater... Prefer something small and spicy that satisfies  the soul rather than large
      April 23, 2017 12:15 AM MDT
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  • 7683
    Ha ha soul eating;()
      April 23, 2017 2:02 PM MDT
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  • I eat for two reasons .. I'm hungry and fuel, but there's also desire... And no double meaning here :) .. Some thing tasty
      April 23, 2017 3:30 PM MDT
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  • I never eat everything on the plate I just don't seem to need a lot of food, my husband often takes care of my leftovers.
      April 23, 2017 12:40 AM MDT
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  • 7683
    oh poor guy;))
      April 23, 2017 2:03 PM MDT
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  • 184
    I was brought up in the "eat everything on your plate" home. However over the years I learned it is OK to leave something behind. In many cultures it is a sign the cook gave you more than enough. If you clean your plate you would be saying you did not give me enough to eat.
      April 23, 2017 4:49 AM MDT
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  • 7683
    Oh wow...thank U ancient one, that was informative;))
      April 23, 2017 2:04 PM MDT
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  • 5808
    depends on what the stomach says...
      April 23, 2017 8:15 AM MDT
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  • 7683
    You must listen to tummy Baba;))
      April 23, 2017 2:04 PM MDT
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  • 44173
    I eat small portions, so I rarely leave anything on my plate. That means lots of leftover for the next time I get hungry.
      April 23, 2017 8:24 AM MDT
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  • 7683
    Oh....but that maybe a bit umm not so fresh;((
      April 23, 2017 2:05 PM MDT
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  • 44173
    We have a refrigerator. Leftover lasagna last night. Leftover over Chinese tonight. Anything that doesn't have a science project on it is fair game.
      April 24, 2017 9:07 AM MDT
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  • 9777
    I am a member of the Clean Plate Club.
      April 23, 2017 10:05 AM MDT
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  • 7683
    Hail to thee,JANE;()
      April 23, 2017 2:06 PM MDT
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  • 22891
    i clear it but i dont put much on it since im not a big eater
      April 23, 2017 4:56 PM MDT
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  • 3463
    If I make my own plate I usually will clean it because I know how much I can eat.
    If I am out, I usually bring food home.
      April 27, 2017 7:01 PM MDT
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  • 3680
    Almost always, I finish the lot. Including the skins of the smoked mackerel fillets I had today.  I don't like to waste food anyway, but cooking for myself, I know how much to cook.


    A former neighbour, Janet, once told me she had a 'phone call from the local Council, surveying the efficacy of their waste-collections. The woman asked Janet that they'd noticed her food-waste bin was always empty - how come?

    "We don't waste any. We don't over-buy and what is inedible are either fruit and veg bits that go on the compost heap; or bones, and after I've boiled them down to make stock they can go in the ordinary rubbish!"

    "What about what's left on your plates?" the Council lady persisted.  

    "We don't leave any - we all know what we each like, and how much!" Janet said she had to explain.

    The Council woman was most surprised. She could not understand a family not wasting food!

    (The collected food waste is sent for composting.) 
      May 11, 2017 4:37 PM MDT
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  • You have to be from the UK.  Only there do we have people poking through dustbins to see what people are chucking away or not.
      May 11, 2017 9:03 PM MDT
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  • 3680
    Do we? I have seen the occasional homeless one picking through street litter-bins, but that's all.

    And "only there / here"? I doubt that very much.
      May 12, 2017 10:33 AM MDT
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