What do you do with leftover food from your STR?

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I keep the good fresh stuff. Other things like mustard, ketchup or salad dressing I leave for the next tenants. But if it's something like cold cuts, cheese, bread, eggs, potato chips or pastries I set them out in my yard and put a game camera on it. A game camera is a motion sensoring camera with night vision to take pictures of animals in the wild.

So far I've gotten rabbits, an opossum, a fox, crows and a trash panda to come to the food pile.

Jared Higginbotham · Answer

I let my housekeepers and housemen take it home with them. My hourly wage earners need that the most. I’ve heard them tell me many times how much it helps them and their families.

Luke Carl · Answer

He’s Back!!!!!!

Welcome mayor. We missed you.

Tom Dempsey · Answer

LOL this is great.

Generally we keep all of the nonperishable items like you had mentioned (Mustard, Ketchup, Dressings) and throw away ALL of the rest. We have received a handful of complaints before from guests that say the unit is 'dirty' because some food was left behind from the previous renter. Always better to just get rid of it or give it to the less fortunate if you are in an area where that is possible.

Bruce Woodruff · Answer

We do much like you and keep condiments and such for the next guests. We take any of the 'good stuff' since we do our own cleaning. I love it when they leave good booze. One of our places had the bachelor party from a wedding and they left 2 cases of beer behind! (And no they didn't even party that much).

Another guest left a mostly full bottle of Makers Mark (Bourbon) :-)

Wilson Hunter · Answer

Surprised only a single trash panda was attracted by the bait food. The refineries may be killing off your local wildlife...

Steven Foster Wilson · Answer

That sounds fun to watch. I would probably donate it to a local pantry or here in Columbus there is a rather large homeless population. So I would probably offer it to someone like that. My wife and I always try to do that with any of our left overs that we will not eat the next day or if we make too much.

Paul Sandhu · Answer

It's part of a big circle.

I feed these animals. I let some local people that work at a refinery hunt the critters. The local people help me rent out my STRs to contractors working at the refinery. The contractors leave food behind, which I feed the animals.

Bruce Woodruff · Answer

We leave spices and cooking oils as well....

Nathan Gesner · Answer

If it's sealed, we may take it. If it's a condiment, we typically leave them for another guest to use (be careful with mayonnaise or things that can spoil when left out). Even dry spaghetti noodles get thrown out if they've been opened.

Rodney Sums · Answer

I know this was common practice in places like restaurants but even they don't leave the condiments out anymore. I suspect covid has a lot to do with it.

Secon, I'm no wildlife expert so pardon me if this sounds ignorant I'm just curious:

Not that they didn't come around anyway but why teach the wildlife your property is a place to find easy food?

What do you do with leftover food from your STR?

What do you do with leftover food from your STR?

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