Use kitchen scraps

By Luise Hakasi

This situation certainly sounds familiar to you: Noodle leftovers in the fridge, the half-full pack of tomato sauce which is no longer needed, the chocolate eggs are piled up. Doesn`t it hurt you sometimes (or often ?!) to throw away fresh green vegetable leaves or stalks and fruit peels, full of vitamins, because there is no further use for it? Let`s change to an almost 100% use of leftovers.

 

Cooking with leftovers is fun and diversified, it is quick and easy, saves a lot of money and waste. Bring new variations into your kitchen! No more residues, no more throwing away!! I'll show you delicious recipe ideas for leftover food.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookRix
• Release date: Jan 13, 2017
• ISBN: 9783739636337

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This situation certainly sounds familiar to you: Noodle leftovers in the fridge, the half-full pack of tomato sauce which is no longer needed, the chocolate eggs are piled up. Doesn`t it hurt you sometimes (or often ?!) throw away fresh green vegetable leaves or stalks and fruit peels, full of vitamins, because there is no further use for it? Let`s change to an almost 100% use of leftovers.

Cooking with leftovers is fun and diversified, it is quick and easy, saves a lot of money and waste. Bring new variations into your kitchen! No more residues, no more throwing away!! I'll show you delicious recipe ideas for leftover food.

The big throw away

Sad but true: According to a study by the University of Stuttgart/Germany every citizen throws away nearly 82 kilos food each year. The WWF study The big throw away speaks of 18.4 million tons of wasted food per year. That`s 313 kilo edible (!) food per second ... of which 40 to 60% came from private households, the rest of production, catering (including restaurants, canteens, schools, etc.) and much of it was avoidable, so the unanimous study results. The whole thing starts with the purchase. We often buy carelessly or in too large quantities.

No to the throwaway culture - yes to using kitchen scraps

Saving money, well, who does not have to do this nowadays?! Trying not to waste money has nothing to do with greed, but simply with saving and also with environmental awareness. This should include possibly complete recycling, organic cleaning agents, second-hand shopping / selling, saving energy and cycling for example.

However, those measures can begin with the daily diet, in the garden, where fruit and vegetables could be grown almost 100% bio. Organic waste belongs on the local compost unless peels etc. cannot be used otherwise. Buy as little industrialized food as possible and use food leftover as much as possible. How? I am going to show you in this e-book:

This situation certainly sounds familiar to you: Noodle leftovers in the fridge, the half-full pack of tomato sauce which is no longer needed, the chocolate eggs are piled up. Doesn`t it hurt you sometimes (or often ?!) throw away fresh green vegetable leaves or stalks and fruit peels, full of vitamins, because there is no further use for it? Let`s change to an almost 100% use of leftovers.

Cooking with leftovers is fun and diversified, it is quick and easy, saves a lot of money and waste. Bring new variations into your kitchen! No more residues, no more throwing away!! I'll show you delicious recipe ideas for kitchen scraps.

Regrow - kitchen leftovers, which continue to grow

Did you know that some kitchen waste can be replanted