Dustin Diamond Quotes

I like eating food after it's gone off.

When I first went to university, I did a big shop with my dad. We bought loads of stuff but it didn't occur to me that I needed to refrigerate it, so I just put it in my room. I remember thinking, 'What's that smell coming from under the bed?' It was a bag of potatoes. How long does it take for a potato to rot? Months!

If it has a shelf life longer than you, don't eat it.

Leftovers make you feel good twice. First, when you put it away, you feel thrifty and intelligent: 'I'm saving food!' Then a month later when blue hair is growing out of the ham, and you throw it away, you feel really intelligent: 'I'm saving my life!'

I am someone who puts their takeout or leftovers into the Tupperware and stores it in the refrigerator overnight.

It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them or can't be bothered.

I don't do much cooking because it's impossible when you travel so much. You go grocery shopping, buy everything, and then get a call to fly out for two weeks. By the time you're back, all the food is rotten.

I'm a huge fan of burgers, and they're not my wife's favorite, so we don't cook them at home.

The rule I use is, If it doesn't come out of the ground looking the way it looks when you eat it, be careful.

You don't take food home from restaurants in Sweden.

The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.

If eating out, order your meal and ask the server to wrap up half of the portion to take home with your for the next day, keeping your portion size in check, and stretching your dollar into two meals.

Once food gets into our fridges, larders and kitchens, ensuring that it gets used up before going off seems like an obvious thing to do - but it's alarming how many millions of tonnes are simply chucked because we don't keep track of the food we've spent our money on.

Portion control is a real problem. My husband and I always split one appetizer and one entree. I'm sure waiters hate us.

My mother accidentally gave me food poisoning. She fed me baby carrots for a snack before Christmas dinner - but they had expired in June! I threw up for the next 24 hours.

I don't eat when I'm working. If I start to fridge-raid, I'm in trouble.

Most cornmeal producers don't tell you when their cornmeal was milled, which makes it difficult to know how long the product has been sitting in the store before you bought it.

I mostly get takeout, I have to admit - I don't know if that's something to be ashamed of. I'm not much of a cook.

I only eat meat if I go to a nice restaurant and there is an exceptional dish, or if I'm at somebody's home for a dinner, I'll eat whatever is in front of me. Otherwise, I don't eat anything that walks around and has a face.

I don't love cooking, so when I'm on my own in New York, I tend to eat prepared foods, like lentil soup from Juice Press and Whole Foods.

FoodSaver containers extend the life of my food so I can have fresh food ready all week long.

In restaurants in my Brooklyn neighborhood, I always ask for a doggie bag to bring the leftovers home.

We have a more intimate relationship with food than with almost anything else we buy, so people are with very good reason concerned about the real story behind what they eat.

I always order soup, dessert, and a sandwich or whatever main course. But then the idea is you have to eat such a small portion of it and bring the rest home.

My brain knows best-before dates are a con; my panicky gut treats them like a nuclear countdown.