"Omelet" wrote
> "brooklyn1" wrote:

>> In my experience most food sent home with guests ends up in their
>> trash...

> In that case, your cooking for guests must suck in the first place.

Ya think?

Meantime to answer your question, yes. I always have baggies and such about
for any leftovers for those who don't have their own containers and want to
take the extras home.

Lets see, as mentioned we do a neighborhood cookout most weeks in summer.
It's potluck sort but with a bit of pre-arrangement. We skipped the chicken
and fish this week due to crab season (30 live ones) and a monster catfish.
Decided this time was a seafood fiesta! Here's the leftover list:

The catfish yielded 3 servings of fried, and 4 of a gumbo (out of 20)
There were no crabs left but we got 2 cups of 'crab stock' left
1/2G or so of potato salad became a dab left, not sure I'd call it a serving
3 2lb loaves of bread (various from my machine) became ?8? slices

Oh, and we denuded my baby lettuce patch to almost roots ;-)

Hehe we dang near fought over the leftovers!

Normally we plan for leftovers a bit (some of us aint so flush) but this
time we had some new folks show up who've just moved in (I mean, moving vans
the day before and still unpacking) so we didn't have as many leftovers.
Grin, instead we was pitter-pattering off to grab 'a bit extra to add to the
table' and help the new folks out.

Ok, normal *here* is you pickup what you want as you leave but leave enough
for the nibblers if there are still a few.