<p>My husband freaks out over uneaten food on vacation. He didn’t talk to any of us for three solid days at Disneyworld because each of the three kids ordered their own funnel cake and one ended up getting pitched. Yes he ruined a vaction over a $5 funnel cake. (By the way, the food on the entire trip was free, because I had a huge number of Disney Visa dollars.) A week ago he started talking about how we need to avoid over-ordering food on vacation. If he ruins this vacation over uneaten food, it is truly the last vacation I will ever take with him.</p>
<p>Maybe you could team up with one of your kids to split meals if they are going. Or convince the family to “share” - in other words instead of a family of 5 ordering 5 meals, order 4 meals and share. This works well alot for us, then we get to taste different stuff as well. Or order a la carte stuff, or an appetizer for your meal.</p>
<p>Oh, he loves it when we do that. But when you’re going to a vacation location especially for the food, it’s such a shame for everyone not to be able to get exactly what they want.</p>
<p>Missypie, have you mentioned to Mr. Missypie that his food fetish is his problem, not yours, and you don’t want to hear about it? He’s obviously deranged on the subject of food waste. Can you set dollar ground rules ahead of time-- we’ll each spend x amount of money on food and no more-- and then have the plan that everyone now owns their own food and can do with it as they please: eat it, use as hair gel, use for finger paints, use as makeup, throw out, leave on plate, save for later?</p>
<p>hmm. I would try the sharing idea…you will be there a long time and probably will have more than enough time to sample everything.</p>
<p>Sounds good to me, CF. He’s easy enough to ignore when we’re at home (last week he was upset when I pitched the sour cream that was a month past the sell by date). But when we’re on vacation, there’s no one else to be with and there isn’t another part of the house to go to. The good thing is that now the kids are older, so they just ignore him when he gives them a lecture about how meaningless things like sell by dates are.</p>
<p>Alternatively, you can ask if they can give you an appetizer amount of a main course. I did this recently when I really, really wanted lobster ravioli, but it is not part of the current diet! An appetizer amount fit the bill and I had something low calorie for the main course. When you are on vacation that can be easier than throwing half the food away because there’s no real way to save it.</p>
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I actually recently read an article about this - sell by dates aren’t always a good indication of when you need to eat it. [The</a> Truth Behind “Sell-By” Dates On Foods - The Early Show - CBS News](<a href=“http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/18/earlyshow/health/main4953898.shtml]The”>http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/18/earlyshow/health/main4953898.shtml)</p>
<p>I can understand keeping, say, jelly a month past the sell-by, but sour cream? It gets moldy!</p>
<p>Believe me, I don’t just throw food away willy nilly. But dairy a month past the date? Ick. One time he ate hot dogs from a package that had been opened and in the fridge for two months past the sell by date. I guess those foods do have a huge amount of perservatives because he didn’t get sick but I almost got sick watching him eat them.</p>
<p>Oh, CF, mold is just something to be spooned away!</p>
<p>Darn right it should be spooned away. The entire carton of moldy sour cream should be spooned away right into the trash.</p>
<p>On edit: yogurt, on the other hand, keeps well beyond the sell-by. And it’ll last 24 hours without any refrigeration at all. When I’m bike camping, I buy yogurt in the afternoon for the next morning. It’s fine.</p>
<p>One of the funniest things he did was to pour an entire new bottle of salsa into an almost empty very old bottle. When I opened the jar, the entire thing fizzed up like a coke can that had been shaken. Ruined an entire bottle of new salsa due to not wanting to pitch the old. Come by my house if your kids ever need a science project. (But never eat at my house unless I tell you it’s okay.)</p>
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<p>I believe that missypie’s spouse should be referred to as misterpie. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>My goodness missypie. I’m going to have to share some of these stories with my H. He does serve-safe training- everything you should and should not do in food prepration and service- I think your H is going to fall into the “don’t do this” category! </p>
<p>The only place we’ve ever been able to successfully share food has been at our favorite Thai place. I like the idea of a daily food budget for folks to spend as they will. I get irritated with H because his idea of sharing is to order something he knows I won’t eat and then eat the majority of mine.</p>
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<p>Oh, no, that can’t possibly be. There can’t be *someone else *who talks about food safety. H thinks that the food safety rules are something my mother and I made up as an excuse to throw away food (which is ridiculous, as my mom is as “depression era frugal” as most of her generation.)</p>
<p>Hope no one else finds out there’s no such thing as food safety. We’d be hard pressed to make it on my lucrative salary.</p>
<p>It may have been a mistake to switch off the iPod nazi’s Candadian techno in favor of some old-school Parliament Funkadelic for the cool down after today’s workout. I got to dancing on the exercise bike (such a 56 year old fat white guy in a Gram Parsons t-shirt can dance to P-Funk on a yard-sale exercise bike) and then, when the cool down was over, I couldn’t move my legs to get off the bike! Oh, well.</p>
<p>Felt good today. I made it through the first of three circuits of exercises without an extra breather – the first tiime I’ve been able to do that. I did throw in 2 minutes after each circuit and at the halfway point of the second and third circuits, but I did the full 40 minute workout in 50 minutes. Not bad. Tough exercises for me today. Lunges aren’t my cup of tea at all. 30 seconds of plank is tough. Push-ups kill me. I have to do the girl’s kind from my knees. I actually like crunches on the stability ball. Stepping up onto a step while doing a curl and a press over the head with the two dumbells isn’t too bad. The killer is leaning back against the ball up against the wall and squatting to a seated position (without a chair), while doing shoulder curls with the dumbbells. That burns the thighs, bad.</p>
<p>Today ended with the toughest intervals on the bike, yet. 10 seconds at full speed, alternating with 40 seconds of recovery at easy pace. Eight repetitons. That got me breathing. I was ready for the P-Funk.</p>
<p>Still, all in all, today was the first taste of me working the workout instead of the workout working me out. That’s a positive motivation.</p>
<p>I’m a stickler for food safety. My wife teases ME about it. I’m probably the only guy in the world who grills hamburgers or steaks and not only won’t put the cooked food on the same platter, but won’t use the same spatula to take the cooked meat off the grill unless I’ve washed it after flipping the last uncooked side.</p>
<p>Weird, but I’ve seen it many times. When couples are younger it is the woman who is frugal. At times even more so than strictly necessary. However, when they are older it is the man who starts nagging about unnecessary costs and waste. I still cannot believe how my parents have changed in this respect (they are in their early eighties). I even suspect that my - not very mobile - Mom is eating unsalted bread because it forces my Dad to buy decent bread instead of some baked edible plastic ‘look-alike’. They are not rich, but buying cheap food is not necessary at all (they live in a country with a national health system). With my in-laws it was the same story.</p>
<p>idad, I’m in your camp when it comes to food safety (I have separate cutting boards for meats; do the spatula washing thing, etc.). A friend of mine works for a company making tests for nasty bacteria lurking foods, and I’ve heard some horror stories…</p>
<p>Good job today! Pretty soon the iPod nazi will be panting trying to keep up with you :)!</p>