most dinner leftovers become my lunches.
However, she will eat her leftover Chinese eventually ( combo dishes)
My problem is that I always order the better thing. Like “I know you’re interested in the mushroom and squash enchiladas, and I appreciate that it’s probably healthier, but I know you’re going to want my barbacoa. Why don’t you just get that? Or something else and we can share.”
But 50% of the time they get the thing I recommend against, make a face while eating a few bites, end up eating some of mine and 30% of their food, which 70% then goes into the fridge.
Since they rarely finish the leftovers of the food they don’t like, I ask pretty much as soon as I’m hungry, and don’t let it go to waste.
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My husband is also weirdly possessive about his food. If he buys it at the store and not because I asked him to, I can safely assume I’ll get in trouble for eating it. When we go out to dinner, he hates if I ask for a taste of his food. He has no interest in trying mine. “If I wanted yours, I would have ordered yours.” He will begrudgingly give me a bite because he isn’t a jerk and does love me, but he hates that I ask.
Leftovers are completely off limits. And a lot of it ends up never eaten.
So of course he finds it obnoxious that when we get food delivered, I’ll order two or three meals for myself. Yes, it’s a lot, but I like certain kinds of leftovers a lot (Indian, Chinese in particular) and know I can’t touch his!
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I really don’t like the happy wife happy life spewing camp but it’s a pretty good generality to say that women seem to like eating their spouses meals.
I’ve given up telling my spouse to order their own desert. Theyre going to eat half of mine and I’ve learned to accept it.
As for eating food that’s reserved somehow, I put my foot down. I’m happy to tell anyone that’ll listen that we don’t hoard food in this house and if I eat it and later someone wants the same thing, we can just buy more.
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See, I’ll never take the last reasonably-sized portion of a thing without asking.
That said, if it’s been in the fridge for (usually about 2 days, depends on the specific food), I’m probably going to ask you 2 times before dinner today, so hurry up and eat it or give it to me.
But as we only get takeout every couple weeks or so I’d be bummed if my Pad Thai was just gone.
I’ve solved this by always getting my Thai food quite spicy, the other two people here won’t touch anything with more than a hint of spice, so when they see chili flakes, it’s like kryptonite.
I don’t generally care if someone were to eat my leftovers, though.
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Lol, to be fair I probably will be doing also. Just recently tried the only Thai place in town and got spooked by their big heat level warnings (we will not remake any orders that are too spicy!) so I got Medium and Partner got Mild (scale was Mild, Mild+, Medium, Medium+, Hot, Extra Hot, Extra Hot+)
We agreed next time we are trying Hot and Mild+.
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I love Thai food. But these days my stomach can pretty much only do White People Mild. 
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I’m heading out of town on a road trip. I take our stuff downstairs to load the car before leaving, and discover that the cat had an epic vomit all over the oriental rug last night. Departure delayed due to my cleaning up the mess.
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I wouldn’t eat my son’s restaurant leftovers without asking. Otoh, he routinely eats mine without asking lol.
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I’ve taken to this approach on a ton of things. Anything we’re looking for that we cannot find after searching for a while? I say “go out and buy another one.” I’d rather spend $10 and have a 2nd thing and then find the first 5 minutes after we get back than spend 45 minutes, everyone in the house trying to find it, and everyone getting stressed over it.
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My throw-it-out date always exceeds that of everyone else in the house, so I never have a problem with eating leftovers (eventually).
In SoCal we went to a new Thai restaurant and the server warned us that the Fresh Off the Boat chefs were using the Thai 1 to 10 scale and not the American scale for spiciness. I ordered a 7 which turned out to be equivalent to an American 11 (or 12). I’m hoping the server eventually worked out the conversion rate.
They are probably still using the metric spice system, gotta convert that.
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double it. add 30.
been clearing a lot of crud since I had covid (started 5 weeks ago). huge relief to clear it but it’s gross and has created issues.
all the surfaces in the bathroom apparently have tiny blood spatter from when i blow my nose. bc the gunk was so big and rough that it created bloody noses and now…hell, i saw some of it this Am from regular sort of exhale. im a walking biohazard.
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I get that a lot as well. But its not covid related as I test myself with LFTs.
I think that lack of exposure to colds and other cold weather respiratory viruses has made everybody a lot more susceptible to such infections.
I got a nasty cold this Dec/Jan which is just about cleared now (took like 1 month) and I had to clear my nose every day in the morning and after a hot shower. So much gunk in there (in reality that “gunk” is the detritus of your immune system fighting off the infection - dead white blood cells).
I know how to convert an ALB qx to an ANB qx, but I’m going to have to put some pen to paper and think through how to convert mortality improvement rates.
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No interns or co-op students around who need a learning experience??? 
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