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Food / drink 🍗 Weekly Poll (Open ended): How long do you keep your Thanksgiving leftovers?

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We usually eat what we can until Monday, then toss them. Sometimes we put them in the freezer on Thanksgiving night and pull them out sometime in December, but that's not the norm.
 
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I sent away as many as I could at the end of dinner on Thursday. I'll toss the rest today. There aren't many.
 
This year for the first time ever we judged the amount of food to make so well that we ended up eating only two days of leftovers and had nothing remaining at that time to freeze or throw away.
 
We didn't host anything this year but we did bring home some leftovers from in the in-laws house. We brought home about one day's worth of leftovers. I'm not big on leftover turkey so that was more than enough for me.
 
I did not bring home any turkey. I did bring home ham, mac&cheese, plus 3 kinds of pie.

Mac&cheese is gone but 1 slice of ham & a slice of apple pie are left.
 
No longer than a week. We gobble gobble that sh*t up in the immediate 5 days following Turkey Day. Some years, three's even whole parts of the turkey my Uncle lets us take home because no one else claims. Always cornbread for weeks and lots Italian pastries too.
 
We hosted sixteen with most taking some away but not all. Tomorrow should be the last except for some breads that went into freezer.
 
I didn't host, so no leftovers. Well I had some Friday since I was staying at my brother's house. Turkey doesn't re-heat that well anyways. Aso this reminds me I left my Tupperware there.
 
With a freezer (stasis chamber as far as I'm concerned!) indefinitely.

But really, about a week. I sometimes make and freeze soup by simmering down the carcass. sometimes not. Pie goes fast.

The sequence is usually:

Day 0: Thanksgiving Night: Cold Turkey sandwiches and pie. Make broth and pick meat for soup so I can compost the carcass. Freeze this for soup or make soup and freeze.
Day 1: Thanksgiving Dinner 2.0 with whatever's left, all warmed up and eaten just like Turkey Day itself, but at normal dinnertime.
Day 2: Vegetables and most pie is gone. Hot turkey sandwiches made with remaining carved meat mixed into remaining gravy and a green salad on the side.
Day 3: Maybe there's a little turkey and gravy left, maybe not. Maybe order pizza/Chinese.
Day 4: Turkey soup goes into the rotation, but it's probably a side or eaten for lunches. Start thinking about what we will make for Christmas Dinner.
 
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I ate the last piece of pie last night. I had been saving it.
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Our last piece of pumpkin pie disappeared Monday night. I guess I don't really consider pie to be a leftover on one level. I mean not many folks eat an entire pie in a sitting. It's kind of expected pie is designed to be eaten over the following week.

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We host so we always have a bunch. I still had some last night, but I'm notorious in our household for probably eating food way past when it should. Never had an issue though, maybe I just have a strong stomach.
 
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