The other links will not enlighten you more.
They are saying the same thing.
I gave up for tonight.

I also am not going to point things out to hubby -- like the importance of only buying what he will eat soon or put almost immediately in the freeze.
The next time he hands me cherries turned to mush/ 6 day old chicken/ and so on, I will tell him to make his own decision.

His beloved grandfather taught him the importance of not wasting food.
But his grandfather was talking about something entirely different -- nothing about 'saving' soup front the Chinese take out place.

Mari