bluestarlizzard mentioned:
Sometimes I just want a McDonalds burger that has overcooked, over processed greasy beef smothered in melted wax cheese, rehydrated onions, mustard, ketchep and crappy dill pickles on white bread smashed bun.
You gotta stress your system once in a while.
And:
There are ways to get around that (leftovers and freezers) but even being contientious of that, I still end up tossing bad food often enough (or giving up just before it goes bad and giving it to the four legged garbage disposals)
That's a big problem for me. About half of the produce and other fresh non-freezable items go bad before I get to finish them. And a quarter of the frozen stuff gets ruined, too. And I ain't got no four legged garbage disposals.
So there's often an economic incentive to go get a MacWendyKing's burger instead of asking a produce manager to cut a head of lettuce in half for me, or give me half a "bunch" of celery, for example.
I suspect, without actually knowing, that there'd be a pretty big market for "half-size" products tailored for the one-person household. (And I've noticed that the "other half" of the lettuce or celery or whatever that I've had cut up is also gone in a pretty short time.)
As another example, Van deCamp's beans come in tiny cans as well as the regular-sized ones, and I'll buy four small cans rather than one regular one even though that costs more per ummm.... "bean."
And, incidentally, it is not recommended to reheat leftovers more than once. Apparently, from what I understand, the transition periods from hot to cold and back again allows propagation of the bacteria and their toxins in that 'tween period.
From what I understand. I'll go two reheats if I'm feeling brave, but that's about it.
Terry, 230RN