leftovers? What are those?
There are 2 adults, 2 teenagers, a pre teen and an 8 yo with a hollow leg in my house.
I have to meticulously plan all meals, snacks for DC and my own family, because we literally eat everything. The dc kids will eat everything I serve, and if one child won't eat their portion or something, another will.
I make enough dinner to have for lunch for dh and I the following day, my kids pack their meals and snacks for school so those are planned, too.
Right now I have 1/2 gallon of milk, condiments and snack in my fridge.
When we move, I will have a second fridge, so dc food can go in there and that will free up my family fridge to hold more. We don't eat much processed food, so it all needs to be stored in the fridge. We really contemplated getting a second fridge for our kitchen, but I just couldn't get past how awful it would look.