What do you do with the leftovers in the fridge when you are ready to check out of your timeshare?

[Fredflintstone]

I just checked my fridge and then my waistline

Yup, my fridge is loaded with ham, turkey, potatoes, veggies, cheese.

Ok, I’m home now so no biggie...I just fill up the freezer and have 101 ways to make different turkey dishes.

But...

Having Christmas dinner in the timeshare is a different ballgame.

Do I:

1. Stuff my already fat face with food until I explode?
2. Throw out good food?


I usually try to buy carefully so I don’t have much leftover but that seems to never work during holiday feasts.

So, what do you do with the leftovers before you check out?


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[slip]

We have gotten pretty good and not buying too much. Now that we live on Oahu we are a little more spoiled because we can bring whatever we have left with us on the plane. I really love the half hour flights.

 

[PcflEZFlng]

We have gotten pretty good and not buying too much. Now that we live on Oahu we are a little more spoiled because we can bring whatever we have left with us on the plane. I really love the half hour flights.

And we enjoy just a two-hour drive to our favorite timeshares in the desert. So we can bring whatever food we want back and forth.

 

[pedro47]

And we enjoy just a two-hour drive to our favorite timeshares in the desert. So we can bring whatever food we want back and forth.

We are also less than two-hours away from our home resort. So we are lucky we just pack everything in the fridge and bring it home.
However, when we are in SC or Fl, everything open goes in the trash. Unopened items we leave for the housekeeping staff with a note; it is yours. Thanks for your service.

 

[mdurette]

Leftovers......usually in the trash. But, as a general statement we don't eat leftovers anyway.

If we are driving, then I usually have a cooler with me and thinks like milk, eggs, yogurt that wasn't used come home.
If we are flying, then anything in the fridge gets tossed. Anything in the pantry will usually make it home with me in luggage. I have learned though a can of anything (soup, corn, etc) is an automatic TSA check of my luggage.

 

[AnnaS]

We don't cook when we are away. Very might have a salad, sandwich for lunch. We will have breakfast in the room a few days of the week.

Wether we are flying or driving, we can only take home some non-perishable items "if we have room in our luggage unless driving (perishable - drive is too far).

We will leave any unopened food/product in the laundry room. (DVC has laundry rooms (n/c) for anyone staying in a studio). We have seen product in there when we stayed in a studio and used the laundry facilities. Nothing crazy, an item or two or it would become a pantry. In the past, we have asked guests checking into a room next to us if they wanted our water. We have given away our beach chairs (inexpensive from CVS) at Vero Beach (flying home).

 

[Sugarcubesea]

This last trip we had a bit of leftovers and my sister in law came up to visit while we were at our TS and she was so grateful to take home the leftovers...

 

[T-Dot-Traveller]

We primarily visit Mexico .
I have always offered unused food and things we bought (but don’t wish to take on the plane )to the housekeeping staff . It has always been accepted .

I recently took a tour of operations - offered at Vidanta NV ( hotel side / not sales) called “back of the house”
. The mgr. who spoke : said this was a perk of housekeeping .He specifically mentioned unopened beer - but said
the choice of what to take home was the housekeeper’s . This resort has daily housekeeping .

 

[TimeshareTraveler]

Our timeshare in Breckenridge Colorado has a dedicated pantry area near the front desk for unopened and unused food items. The leftovers unfortunately are thrown away.

 

[pittle]

We generally leave a note for the housekeeper to take it. We itemize, sign, date and put our room number at the bottom. That way if the housekeeper is questioned by their supervisor, they have verification. We learned that at a back of the house tour in 2013.

 

[missyrcrews]

I plan carefully, so that we rarely have food left at the end of a stay. We cook for supper each day, and have lunch from the leftovers. This tends to use them up. If there is something left that I can't take home in the cooler, it gets tossed. We don't go further than about 5 hours from home for our trips as a general rule, so this works.

Which reminds me, I need to have lasagna for lunch today to get rid of it!

 

[geist1223]

If we are driving everything goes home. If we are flying all open partially used items go in the trash. Unopened items go in the charity box at the timeshare.

 

[cp73]

All open items in the trash. Anything unopened or unused left in the room.

 

[controller1]

If leftover cooked food, we trash it.

If leftover alcohol, we deliver it to the pool hut and make lots of friends for our next visit.

If we have unopened non-perishable leftovers we place them in the food bank basket at the front desk (Vistana Hawaii resorts).

All other leftovers are left in the fridge for housekeeping to do with as they please.

 

[Fredflintstone]

I just remembered one thing I did once. I went to poolside and welcomed everyone to a BBQ that evening free. I brought down all the leftovers and the liquor and it was a blast. Plus, almost all the food was gone. I threw out very little. I was happy and I think it made others happy too. Plus, I met some great people to boot.


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[SmithOp]

If flying we freeze items, then wrap in newspaper and put in checked luggage. I bring home a lot of portugese sausage like that from Hawaii.


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[slip]

If flying we freeze items, then wrap in newspaper and put in checked luggage. I bring home a lot of portugese sausage like that from Hawaii.


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Love the Portuguese sausage!

 

[easyrider]

We leave everything we are not taking in the fridge or on the counter. In Mexico we leave a note so they can keep the groceries and booze. In Hawaii we just leave it. Driving distance the groceries and booze we want get tossed into the ice chest.

In Mexico, we occasionally take our booze, meats and other barley used or new grocery items to the flea market and trade for junk.

Bill

 

[mcsteve]

All open items in the trash. Anything unopened or unused left in the room.

We do the same when we are flying. I will seek out housekeeping the morning we are leaving and ask if they need us to do or write anything for them to take what they want. Most times I have been told just a note will be fine or that they don’t/cannot take it.

If we are driving it is much easier as we typically will bring a cooler for the refrigerated item and pack the rest. When driving we travel in an SUV or the truck which accommodates all we need plus lots of extra room.

Last year when in HHI at Spinnaker my better half went a bit crazy at Costco on snacks and we had quite a bit left over. We spoke with the front desk and they said they had a box for unopened items they took to the food bank every Saturday afternoon. I thought this was great so we gathered up what we had and dropped it at the desk. I don’t think this was an official thing but something the staff had taken open themselves to do. It made me feel much better, rather than wasting the stuff (mostly cashews, peanuts, pisatios and pepperettes).

 

[rapmarks]

I just remembered one thing I did once. I went to poolside and welcomed everyone to a BBQ that evening free. I brought down all the leftovers and the liquor and it was a blast. Plus, almost all the food was gone. I threw out very little. I was happy and I think it made others happy too. Plus, I met some great people to boot.


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We did this in Hawaii. There were four sets of exchangers we became friendly with and we had a refrigerator party.we were still eating when the Friday check ins arrived.we told thembring us a bowl, and you can take this one filled with food.

 

[WinniWoman]

We rarely have a lot of leftover anything, but what we do have we take back home with us in our cooler.

 

[Grammarhero]

If, perishable trash. Otherwise, in our iced cooler.

 

[geekette]

Leftovers are usually pitched unless they can be "on the way home" food.

 

[rapmarks]

I remember staying in Branson at a silver leaf, no elevator, fifth floor. There wasopened gallon of milk and some other things in refrigerator. I did not appreciate having to tote them down five floors to the trash.