Daily confessions.....

Elsa1984

I have a confession: my SO's boss pays for lunch to be catered by local restaurants every Friday for the employees (there are about 15 people that work there).....all of the leftovers go into the fridge, but because it is Friday, it ends up sitting in there during the weekend and then nobody touches it come Monday, and it gets tossed by Wednesday. For the past two months, my SO has been bringing home the leftovers on Friday eve if nobody has touched it. This food is AMAZING and it comes from very spendy restaurants. SO got tired of seeing it being tossed just because nobody was there Saturday and Sunday, and most of the employees didn't want the leftovers anyway. He brings home so many leftovers, we can eat for 2-3 days. Last week he brought home rosemary chicken (enough to feed at least four people), a Cesar salad (enough for ten people) a gallon ziploc full of broccoli salad, and a big box of the best kale salad I have ever had in my life. 

There have been times there are so many leftovers, we have been able to have lunches and dinners for a week, and would just serve it different ways so it didn't taste like the same meal.

I feel a little trashy and guilty for doing it, but SOOOOO much food was getting wasted because nobody wanted to eat the leftovers. Why toss perfectly good food if someone will eat it.

:::hangs head in embarrassment::: 

mamaZbo

I'd do the same, but I definitely don't want whats left in our work fridge at the end of the week .

My confession is that I am working from home today and nothing is going on and I might have drifted off to sleep for a little bit while catching up on lasts week TV. When I woke up I still had no email. I'll

Elsa1984

mamaZbo:

I'd do the same, but I definitely don't want whats left in our work fridge at the end of the week .

My confession is that I am working from home today and nothing is going on and I might have drifted off to sleep for a little bit while catching up on lasts week TV. When I woke up I still had no email. I'll

hahaha! He brings it home the same day it comes into the office. It's served by the caterer at lunch time, then the caterer boxes it up, and SO brings it home that evening.  

Fianschneid

I say as long as he's sly about it, keep it up. It sounds awesome. I'm surprised no one else does it.

 

pennysuedog

The food waste in this country is sickening.  At work on an average day (just in my department) we shrink out about 3 shopping carts full of food.  Some of the stuff goes to the salvation army or to a senior community, but they can not take things that need to be refrigerated. 

I think it is great what you are doing!  

HappyAardvark

There is nothing wrong with that! Better someone actually EATS it, than the trash can gets it! I'm jealous, actually. Haha.

My confession: I'm sitting here drinking a hard cider while Wes naps. I have a ton of things I should be doing, but I'm doing this. Ahh well.

anasazi17

I used to be a manager at Starbucks and talk about waste!! We would donate all of the pastry items, but we couldn't donate our lunch sandwiches AND we weren't allowed to give them to the employees at the end of the day.  I absolutely hated how much we threw out so I always let the partners take them home or I would for my DH's lunches.  Good for you guys...food waste is just awful!