Recycling and Reusing Food Scraps
It's easy to recycle your food waste and stop it going to landfill.
Food scraps make up around 40% of household rubbish. When it breaks down in the dump, it forms harmful greenhouse gases, contributing to climate change.
Before you throw away your food scraps, you may wish to consider recycling or reusing them. Here are some great ideas:
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Start a Worm Farm: Worms are a great way to add probiotics and nutrients to your soil.
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Save carrot peels, potato skins, and celery tops to add to chicken stock.
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Make potato peel chips out of potato peels.
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Replant Vegetable Scraps: retain the seeds, pits, and cuttings of your veggies and regrow at home.
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Freeze broccoli and kale stalks to use in soups.
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Compost Your Food Scraps: you can buy one or set up a very simple one using a cardboard box and chicken wire.
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Place cucumber peels at entrance points in your home to deter ants.
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Get Some Chickens: they will eat anything from lettuce leaves to carrot peels!
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Make jam from apple peels and cores. You can also do this with strawberry tops and apricot peels.
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Turn dried bread crusts into croutons and breadcrumbs.
Leftovers Recipes
Here are some great recipes using last night's leftovers:
Vegetable Pancakes: Stir last night's veggies through a pancake batter to create a quick and easy savoury breakfast.
Roast Lamb Pot Pies: Cut up last night's lamb into small cubes, and put a large spoonful of lamb and veg into a pie pot. Cover with mash potato and cheese or filo pastry and bake at 180 degrees until the top is golden.
Leftover risotto? Make Arancini Balls or stuff some small capsicums with risotto and bake at 180 degrees for 10 minutes.
Chicken Salad: Shred roast chicken with your fingers and add it to your favourite salad for a protein boost. Chicken pairs well with mango, baby spinach, nuts, feta, avocado and sundries tomato.
Croquet Jacket Potatoes: Boil some potatoes until almost done. Allow them to cool and then cut them in half and scoop out a tablespoon of potato. Put last night's pasta sauce, beans, curry or stew in the hole, cover with cheese, and place in the oven until the cheese is golden brown. Top with yogurt or sour cream for extra indulgence.
Easy Nacho Bowls: Fry some capsicum, chilli and onion, and kidney beans then add leftover Bolognese sauce and a teaspoon of curry powder. Serve on top of organic corn chips and cover with cheese and yogurt.
Chicken soup: After roasting a whole chicken or red meat, boil the bones in with 2 carrots, a celery stalk and an onion to make a healthy broth rich in probiotics and collagen. You can also shred leftover chicken to add to the soup.
Vegetable Frittata: pour some omelette mixture over leftover vegetables and fry it up to make a delicious frittata. Capsicum, red onion, roast pumpkin, carrot, sweet potato and mushrooms are all delicious frittata ingredients.
Sloppy Joes: Make a burger by putting leftover Bolognese sauce in to a soft bread roll.
Roast Veg Toasties: Fry up some bread with a small amount of garlic and olive oil. Cover with leftover roast veg and cover with rocket and feta.
Cottage Pie Patties: Roll up leftover cottage pie with some egg and breadcrumbs for fast and easy patties!
Rice leftovers: Mix leftover rice with organic cream, a small amount of vanilla beans and some honey for a delicious rice pudding. You can also fry up rice with some soy sauce, organic ginger, garlic, mushrooms, carrots, peas and corn for a simple fried rice.
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