People who leave scraps all over their plate when they eat

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This drives me absolutely nuts.......

People who eat meals, and when they are done, there are scraps of food all over their plate. I don't mean if they can't finish the meal, I mean things such as rice, that they haven't bothered to scrape up, they just leave the bottom of the plate covered in little bits of food.

It just makes more work for the person doing the dishes!! Me!! !

Just scrape the excess food into the garbage before you wash the plate. That's what we always do.

Socially, no one I know considers it a rule of any kind to tidy their uneaten food on a plate.

Next time you're at a restaurant, you'll see most people just leave food as you've described. It's fairly normal behaviour. The dishwashing person knows they have to scrape the entire plate before washing and most won't think any more of it. It's an accepted part of the task.

If it bothers you that much, then why not ask people nicely if they wouldn't mind leaving their plates the way you want them left. Some will, if they understand you and what things bother you, and some won't.

I always leave my plate as clean as I can. If there are tiny scraps that are troublesome to pick up and eat despite my best efforts, I will scrape them into the bin (if I am at home). The only exception is if I really can't finish the meal, but I guess what is left then would not count as "scraps". And yes, it annoys me too, when others fail to do this. It might be partly my Aspieness, but it's also the way my mother taught me.

if there's one thing homelessness taught me, it was "waste not, want not." i fanatically scrape off every morsel of food off my dishes all the time, i hate wasting anything. for me, food is too expensive to waste. i go so far as licking my dishes clean, it saves me from having to put them in the sink to wash [too often], which is one of my least favorite chores [dish washing]. i suck every last drop from a drinking glass or canned beverage. i react with disgust, at the sight of people wasting things in general, including food. my sister's cat fails to police every scrap of food off of its plate, and this bothers me also, so one can understand my dismay when i see humans behaving the same way. when i slip the bonds of earth, i would want my epitaph to read, "nothing ever wasted."

I leave scraps of food on my plate too.

How does cleaning all the food off the plate make less dishes to wash? If they are eaten off of they need to be cleaned anyways.

I leave stuff on my plate at times depending on how much I like what I'm eating and how hungry I am.

my late mother joked with me, when i would lick my plates so clean that she couldn't tell if there had been any food on them. i hate washing dishes so that is one more reason for me to thoroughly clean my plate. when my older brother was in the marines, there was a big mess hall sign which read "take all you want but eat all you take." makes perfect sense to me.

They should get a dog to lick the scraps off the plates. lol

My parents always made me eat every scrap of food off my plate. They had little disposable income and so had to be frugal......that meant that food should not be wasted. It also made it easier to wash the dishes.

I must have internalised their rule, because I still habitually do my best to eat everything on my plate, and have to tell myself it's OK to leave stuff I don't want. I get a bit annoyed when other people leave half-chewed or messy bits of food on their plates, especially if I have to wash them. I don't like having to deal with food that other people have gobbed out, all mixed with their saliva and possibly mucus. I dont want to look at it or touch it. Some people take their plate into the kitchen when they're done eating, scrape any mess into the slop bucket and put the plate into the washing up. I like it when they do that for me, I see it as a mark of politeness and respect, but I don't look down too much on those who don't do it that way. I have a strongly-held principle that people should clean up their own mess if they possibly can........it's not a dealbreaker, but I like it when they shown that particular consideration.

I also can't stand it. I always want to have every little bit of food off my plate when I eat it and it baffles me why others would leave their scraps of food. I even licked my plates clean too and mom would tell me that is not good table manners and I will get made fun of for that if I do it at school and kids wouldn't want to sit near me because they would think I'm sick.

Being a "Member of the Clean-Plate Club" is what made me overweight.

Now I put there only what I know I will finish; and if I'm full, I stop eating, now matter how much is left. I've lost over 20 pounds.

I don't really see what is so hard about scraping the food off into the garbage or feeding it to a nearby dog if there is one. I hate trying to scrape crusty dry food off of dishes it wastes water and electricity.

I have zero idea how this relates to autism at all.