/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>op still here two days later
just found this thread but now i'm curious, what's your deal lady?

My family flips out if they think you're "wasting" things. They weren't even that poor in the past but they have an absolute neurosis about making sure nothing goes to waste.
>make pot of mac and cheese
>literally everyone is stuffed as fuck cause I made a lot
>a miniscule amount is left in the pot, like 2 spoonfuls worth
>no one wants it and I'm full so I go to toss it
>mom goes off on me saying to put it in a bowl and eat it later
>it's legitimately like 10 individual pieces of macaroni
>ask if she wants to eat it even though she didn't have any because she hates macaroni
>she shuts up but then spends the next several hours making passive aggressive remarks about wastefulness
There was another time when I was working on something and needed like ten paper towels and got them absolutely coated in gun oil, like the shit that's highly carcinogenic when ingested. I went to throw them out once they were used and she went ballistic, saying they weren't completely covered and she could use them to clean bowls and stuff in the kitchen. She was still pissed even after I explained that that's a retarded idea considering what they were coated with. She still flipped out on me saying shit like money doesn't grow on trees even when I offered to buy her a full pack of paper towels if she was so goddamned offended by me using like 6 cents worth of them.