We wasted so much food in the house I grew up in because my dad thinks that if you eat leftovers you will get food poisoning and die. The only exception was that we were allowed to have the leftover Sunday roast as really spicy curry because "Nothing can live in that sauce."

I've been eating leftovers for years and have NEVER gotten food poisoning from leftovers. Or from anything me or my husband prepare. I only ever get it from restaurant food.