Michael "Dog3" Lonergan wrote:
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> Barb, we are in the same situation. Only 2 of us left and I always cook
> way too much for 2 people. I've been trying to cut down on wasted food. I
> too have an issue deciding which potatoes to keep on hand. I also go back
> and forth over which onions to keep on hand. Just when I think I've got it
> all under control, a cantpassitupsale will invariably be underway and I'll
> pick up a 3 or 5 pound bag of one or the other.

I have the opposite problem. I have never been in the habit of cooking
huge amounts of food. It has been done on the odd occasion. Most of my
cooking has been for 2-3 people, and because I know what they like and
how much to prepare, we rarely have left overs. I have started to make
larger meat loaves and batches of stew in order to get a second night
out of them. Most nights we serve up everything, eat everything we are
served and when it comes time to scrape off the plates there is rarely
anything left but bones.

That may be just as well. My wife has a habit of wrapping up leftovers
and putting them in the fridge and then putting things in front of them
and shoving them further and further into the back of the fridge. By
the time they are recovered they are a prize winning science project.