What do you do with left over food?

Mostly eat the next day or two. Turkey or chicken carcasses I will freeze as they make the best soup. And after holiday meals, lots of leftovers go home with the kids. Freezing is a great option as long as you use them in short order.

After 3 or 4 days in the frig unfrozen they generally get tossed.
 
I try hard to never waste food, and will mix leftovers with other foods the following day whenever I can.
Freezing is always a good option.
 
I refrigerate and freeze but there comes a point where it goes out on the back porch for all the other little critters to help with the disposal. I win lots of furry friends that way and keep my fridge cleaned out that way. Coons, skunks and possums particularly like my leftovers, the greasier the better, and their rough little tongues leave less scrubbing for me to do šŸ˜Š
 
I try not to make enough food to feed a family of five for a week; but somehow it just grows once I start making some kind of soup or pot of beans.
We usually eat our leftovers, or re-use it as something else. The pot of red beans with rice that I made, was turned into Spanish Rice and we ate most of that.
The leftovers from that went out for the dogs and the birds, possums, and feral cats to eat; so it all gets used in one form or another. Marco Poodle expects to share my meal with me, so he does not even wait for leftovers, I always save some for him to eat right away.

We have some leftover pot roast now, and that is going to go into a pot of chili beans once Bobby is done having roast pork sandwiches with it.
 
I eat leftovers and also freeze them. I once cooked enough homemade spaghetti sauce for 100 people. It took months and was in the freezer. I served it at a fundraiser for a young lady that needed a transplant.

I had plenty leftover so took it to a homeless shelter explaining it couldnā€™t be frozen. They were happy to get it and served it the next night. I actually called first to make sure they wanted it. They are a small nonprofit so I think they donā€™t follow all the rules that a big organization would have to.
 

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