I am a fanatic about not wasting food. I take great pains to eat leftovers, scrape together meals with whatever is in the fridge. Yesterday I heated up some bone broth and dumped the three-day old bowl of rice my daughter made into it.

I also made an omelet with an old (soft) tomato, some opened Camembert and the leftover thyme I bought for a beef stew last week.

This morning I cooked my daughter and her friend an omelet with the rest of the Camembert and some leftover tomato sauce. It wasn’t great but they were good sports and ate it anyway.

I feel that making use of leftovers to the greatest extent practicable portends wealth and prosperity. I can’t explain it exactly. You are saving a little money, you are being efficient with energy, but it’s walking the walk with respect to valuing and not squandering the abundance that you already have to the extent you have it.