Wedding hack? Mom freezes food from daughter's wedding to serve months later

• The internet has given us many reasons why we shouldn't eat at people's houses.
• Now, you might want to think twice before you indulge in wedding food.
• This mother froze leftovers from one daughter's lavish wedding, only to serve it eight months later at her other daughter's budget wedding. 

You know how you were taught not to eat at just anyone's house? Well, now you might consider doing the same at weddings too. Weddings are expensive, and couples try to find unique ways to make their special day a spectacle without breaking the bank. Some have their parents take over the planning and let them spend all the money, and all they do is show up, exchange vows and say, 'I do'.

Wedding planning can also show you how frugal certain people are, to the point where they almost poison their guests. Take this mother who froze leftovers from her first daughter's wedding only to serve it at her second daughter's wedding eight months later.

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Taking to Reddit, a newlywed bride told readers that she and her husband got married eight months ago, and their wedding was so big that they had a lot of food and drinks left over. "I knew we would likely have leftovers, so I had arranged for them to be donated to the soup kitchen we sometimes work with. However, my mom went behind my back and took most of it with her." She says she didn't really know what happened to the food until she went to her sister's wedding. "My sister got married over the long weekend, and she didn't want to be a part of the planning, so she decided to let my mom take over the whole thing."

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She added that all she had to do was just show up at the venue and party. Everything went well until it was time to eat, and she saw something familiar. "The ceremony was beautiful, but it was when the buffet was revealed that I noticed something odd. The food looked eerily familiar. Like, identical to what I had for my wedding, except it was a little more dried out and sad." She then confronted her mom, who happily told her she saved a fortune by freezing the food from her wedding to serve to the guests.

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"I was horrified and immediately voiced my concerns about safety. She got upset and said I was acting like a snob and should be happy the food wasn't going to be wasted, but she wouldn't hear it." The daughter adds that she didn't want to cause a scene but was worried about people getting sick, so she snuck off to tell her sister. "She was horribly embarrassed - she mentioned that mom said something about saving money but didn't question it... She told me not to eat the food and thanked me for the warning." From there on, the sister and her husband discretely told some guests to be weary of the food, and the rest of the night was fine.

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"My mom caught some flak for being cheap, but I also caught some heat from some of our relatives who said that I intentionally made my family look bad and that the food was fine as it was frozen and then defrosted for the wedding. They say no one would have known if I didn't make a stink over it."

Users jumped on the comment section to share their opinions in disgust, with one saying, "If there was cream, cheese or seafood in any of those dishes as well, those have a shorter shelf life in a freezer." Another added that it has nothing to do with being frozen but rather "how it was frozen, stored and then thawed out. Unless mom has food handler training, that food wasn't right."

Sources: Reddit