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Goodness, I would never leave food behind for other people,  maybe it's because I'm tight

I expect you’d leave the cottage as you found it or better. Most people that leave food also leave the place in a mess. So I really don’t mind not getting food. Usually it’s not as good as steak. More likely half a box of cornflakes and the last couple of biscuits in a packet ( and very rarely chocolate ones! ). The most common things left are part bags of frozen peas. Which I’m happy to give a home to. Very rare I have to buy peas. other common things left , half tubs of vanilla ice cream. I always give that to whoever I’m working with. Nasty stuff. The other really common thing left is ice cubes! Which I leave where they are until the freeze gets so full of them I throw them out. I find the buying of ice cubes mind blowing!! It just baffles me. Why buy frozen water??? Why do you need 2kg of them?! 
then there’s the real dirty buggers that leave left overs of a half eaten meal on a plate in the fridge or if we’re really lucky ! Still in the pan on the worktop. Unsurprisingly this gets binned while turning the air blue!

Buying ice cubes!? No like you, I can't understand that, it's a bit like buying frozen mash, a bit pointless.