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Eat the mistakes!

Only once have we resorted to take out- although we've had an unplanned cheese and cracker cheese course many many times.

For a while, I was missing the boast in the taste department about 40% of the time. I was sleeping little due to a badly sleeping kid and experimenting too much.

Now I make below average meals about 15% of the time which I still think is a lot but doable. I wish wish wish I was one of those people that could just run through the same 10 recipes. Instead I get my organic box and feel driven to test new recipes all the time. I also wish I was one of those people that had an innate knack for cooking :)

I eat 'em, unless they're so bad I just can't. I'm pretty much exactly the same as you described - frugal and lazy. But would NEVER serve that sort of thing to guests.

I do the exact same thing! I'll eat it as long as it's edible. Sometimes I wish I had the guts to throw them out because my stomach becomes the garbage disposal. It doesn't do well for my waistline!

Count us in the same camp as the poster and the respondents: we also eat our mistakes. It is a combination of laziness but has to do more with the fact that I just can't stand to waste food. But for guests/company-never.

And by the way, those sweet potato fries (burned or not) look mighty tasty.

No--but after spending many years cooking now, I can usually ID recipes that I will like or not ahead of time and I really don't tend to burn things---cooking is a science as much as an art.

When I was an inexperienced cook I used the wrong sort of mushrooms for a sauce, it turned grey. I tried to correct it using food colouring, it turned purple. We ate it in the dark.

I try to eat as much of the mistake that's edible, but then the rest goes in the garbage. My boyfriend is amazing and is happy to eat anything I make (mistake or not) so we think of ways that X could have been better as we're eating. I've never ordered takeout after a mistake; just dug through the cupboards and made some pasta to fill up.

I make too many mistakes not to at least try to eat them!

Depends on how burnt it is. I am the worst fryer on the planet. I can't make a good fried pork chop or chicken if my life depended on it. But even when I get a new recipe and try it and it doesn't come out quite right as long as it not charred back to life I will still eat it.

I generally try but I've thrown things out before when they were just too icky. The only time I make inedible stuff is when I'm really not paying attention, like the time I dumped a full bottle of sesame oil into a stew instead of a tiny bottle of red wine. Oops (although I did actually manage to salvage that one, much to my shock).

I often eat small mistakes, and those chips would have been devoured without a thought. I wouldn't have served them up, but I would have finished them off.

Some things I seem to ruin time and time again. Croutons are a good example - 10 minutes in the oven = perfect, but 11 = cremated. Even I draw the line at ruining a good soup with a burnt piece of bread.

I have 2 dogs, they are more than willing to eat my mistakes for me.

There have been a couple of deal-breakers over the years, but other than that yes I do!

I eat my mistakes all the time. Rarely are they inedible. Eating them teaches you about how to fix things when they go wrong and it counts, too. Mine is definitely out of frugality as much as laziness.

I'm super frugal, but also a perfectionist so I don't like eating my mistakes. Luckily I rarely screw a dish up, but when it happens, I give it to my husband or my dog.

Almost always. I too often burn at least a couple sweet potato chips. I find if you eat the burned ones while they're still hot, the usually taste alright. I can't stand wasting food!

I eat my mistakes. If you don't, how do you learn your lesson? Also, sometimes you mistakes turn into happy accidents.

What I love is that my husband eats my mistakes. I once burned a batch of muffins and he at 5 burned muffins on that day. I think that's love.

Unless it's completely inedible, I do eat my mistakes. Generally it helps me to figure out how to adjust it...if I screw up, I tend to tinker until I get it right. :) Sometimes they end up being happy accidents (like using "seasoned" beans instead of plain in a pot of white chili, it gave great flavor to what would have been a bland dish!). But overall it's because I can't stand throwing food away.

But here's an inedible example: there was that time I used salt instead of sugar in a sweet bread loaf, a mistake I won't make again and I did toss that one.

Yep, because I'll pretty much eat anything. I hate to waste food, so it has to be really bad for me not to eat it! Plus, sometimes a "mistake" actually turns out well. Last weekend I was making panckes, and after I'd cooked about half of them I realized that I'd used the wrong measuring cup and accidentally used 2/3 cup flour instead of 1 cup. But they tasted great. Pretty much the same as usual, except we noticed we weren't as overly stuffed as we usually are when we finish all the pancakes!

I always try my mistakes, but there are just some things I can't stand to eat (like under cooked rice). Some times I'll just pick around what isn't ediblen (or I guess, what isn't edible in my mind.)