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Originally Posted by David Marseilles

I have a deeply ingrained resistance to throwing food away thanks to a similarly illogical childhood admonition

I still cannot do it. I think it is a childhood leftover. We were taught that duting WWII, during Leningrad blockade people were allowed only 125 grams of bread

Spoiler:

Civilians in the city suffered from extreme starvation, especially in winter of 1941–1942. For example, from November 1941 to February 1942 the only food available to the citizen was 125 grams of bread, which by 50–60 per cent consisted of sawdust and other inedible admixtures, and distributed with ration cards. For about 2 weeks at the beginning of January 1942 even this food was available only for workers and military personnel. In conditions of extreme temperatures (down to −30 °С) and city transport being out of service a few kilometers to the food distributing kiosks were insurmountable obstacles for many citizens. In January-February 1942 about 700–10,000 citizens died every day, most of them from hunger. People often died on the streets, and citizens shortly became accustomed to look of death