Leftover
Food kept from an earlier meal — a return to a yield that has not been finished with.
A leftover in a dream is the dream's image of a return to a yield that has not been finished with. The food is not new; the meal is being extended by what was kept. The dream brings the leftover when something in your life — a piece of work, a feeling, a chapter — has produced more than was used at the time, and is now being returned to for further consumption. A leftover reheated and enjoyed is the dream affirming the honest reuse. A leftover gone bad in the fridge, found weeks later, is the dream noting that the kept material was real and the time to come back to it was missed, and the supply has spoiled in storage.