Food scraps

Want to use up food scraps, and prevent food waste, while eating great meals? Try these tasty, inexpensive recipes that give new life to food scraps.

Whether you live in a city high-rise or grow your own garden, there’s a composting option to fit your needs. More than 40 percent of waste sent to landfills is compostable, according to EPA estimates. When you trash food scraps, paper products, and yard waste, nutrients that could be nourishing the soil instead sit in landfills. As this “garbage” decomposes without oxygen, it releases methane, trapping heat in the atmosphere. Composting also replaces chemical fertilizers, and prevents…

How to get creative with skins, pits, and stems.

This post may contain affiliate links. Read the disclosure.Life is already stressful. Eating is essential—no reason to feel stressed out about it. When the budget is tight, and you have to throw food away because it’s spoiled, it is like throwing money away. Don’t fret.There are many ways to repurpose food waste to save money. Here are some great kitchen hacks to up-cycle your food waste. Banana peels as FertilizerMost of us know by now you can use overripe bananas to make banana br…

Want to learn how to make homemade vegetable broth with leftover vegetable scraps? You've come to the right place. Homemade broth is so easy to make, plus it's a great way to reduce food waste! Use it in soups and stews, or to cook legumes, grains and more. #vegetablebroth #foodwaste #reducefoodwaste #vegetablescraps | crowdedkitchen.com

Tips how to regrow food scraps, from Amy Pennington's new book, 'Tiny Space Gardening: Growing Vegetables, Fruits, and Herbs in Small Outdoor Spaces.'

6 Smart Ways to Reuse Food Scraps and Leftovers | Kitchn

Cut your food waste by transforming food scraps into something useful and delicious.

Think twice before tossing those trimmings and peels.

This startup is working out the most efficient way possible to pickup leftover food from restaurants and deliver it to charities in need. It's like Fresh Direct for unused food.

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There's no doubt about it: groceries are one of the most expensive necessities we regularly purchase. A great way to reduce expenses at the checkout counter, is to grow your own food. Start a garden, small or large- your tummy and your pocket book will thank you for it. Here's another idea; have you heard of re-growing your fruits and veggies from scraps? If not, you're in for a treat! We don't live in a Star Trek world where we can simply ask a food replicator to make a salad from thin air…

So many of these food scraps I've composted in the past but not anymore. Before you throw out your food scraps ask yourself whether they are edible or not. If they are then try to work them into your meal plan. You'll find many of the foods I've detailed are wasted in kitchens all over the world when they can be eaten in delicious ways. #Foodscraps #Foodwaste #foodwastemanagement #frugalliving #moneysavings #grocerysavings #gardening

AKA why restaurant food tastes so damn good.

Before you toss those food scraps on the compost pile (or in the trash bin), take a peek at all of the clever ways that they can be repurposed. From peels to cores, poultry to produce and everything in between, these 14 awesome eats help you make the most out of your groceries.

Foods Scraps may always seem like trash, but there are actually 7 Kitchen Food Scraps You Should Never Throw Away! Check out #4! It shocked me!

We waste a lot of food. Morning Chores explains how to use up those food scraps so they don't end up in the trash.

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