The moment I started this blog, friend and family started sending me videos, recipes, and articles with food-related ideas to inspire me. One idea I keep seeing over and over again is how to make vegetable broth out of scraps. (Think onions skins, carrot heads, celery leaves, things like that.)
Obviously, that idea is a home run for No Scrap Left Behind. To think that I could turn garbage into something useful and delicious...brilliant! At least, it sounded brilliant.
The video I saw told me to use onion, carrot, celery, garlic, parsley, mushrooms, and potato peels.
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I love all kinds of pie, but those pastries have a ton of food in them.
That can be a problem when everyone has had two or three slices and they don’t want any more. In my house, we struggle to finish dessert pies, specifically fruit ones.
Betty Crocker gave me the answer!
Of all the foods we used to waste in my house, rice was Culprit #1.
Lots of it gets stuck on the bottom of the pan or the rice cooker. After you eat the part that’s still good, the leftover rice gets hard and dry pretty much the second you put it in the refrigerator. Rice can stay on your counter covered for one day before it starts to get slimy.
"How do you freeze food so it doesn't get freezer burn? I too freeze leftovers my family is tired of eating, but when it sits in the freezer for weeks it gets frost on it. Then, my family refuses to eat it. Is there a solution for this?"
I don't blame your family; freezer burn is nasty. Air is the cause of freezer burn, and the longer food stays in the freezer, the more time it's exposed to air. The solution is to keep air away from the food as much as possible. That's why they sell those vacuums that seal up food.
I love avocados. They’re rich and creamy, not to mention extremely nutritious. Did you know, that’s the only food you can eat exclusively and still survive? Nothing else has enough nutrients.
But I digress; another great thing about avocados is they’re versatile. If you only buy them for guacamole, you’re missing out
(At the end of this article is an extremely healthy, easy, and delicious recipe for a pasta dish jam packed with vegetables.) Okay, so sure, I want the prize money for the contest I'm about to tell you about -- it would almost completely cover the cost of grad school -- but let's put a pin in that for a sec and talk about how helping me win would be a great thing for everyone else, too. Home and Family is hosting a contest for the Best Home Cook. I think the fact that I never waste food makes me a unique and memorable candidate, so I made a video about a vegetable pasta sauce made from the random vegetables that happened to be in my fridge today. The winner will fly to Los Angeles and actually be on the Home and Family show. Yeah. THAT'S pretty cool. All I need are enough likes, shares, and comments on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube for my healthy vegetable pasta video to get the judges' attention. Community involvement is huge.
All I need...is you.
I recently found myself staring down thirty-six mutilated hard-boiled eggs and wondering what to do with them.
They were supposed to be deviled eggs for a funeral, but the whites adamantly clung to the shells. Large chunks of egg whites came off as I peeled them, some to the point where you could see the yolk. They looked so bad that I actually picked up a ball of discarded white play dough thinking it was one of the eggs. About eight eggs into the unshelling, I was mad enough to punch a puppy. Finally I slammed my fists down and declared that I would have to serve something else. That night, he had a craving for cake. (Actually, he had a craving for cake batter, but cake is a good way to use up unfinished batter.) As he separated the egg yolk from the white, he chuckled and said, “Oh no, I’m going to waste three egg yolks!”
I was about to roll my eyes and tell him to go ahead and toss it, but then I told myself, “I promised not to waste food. No scrap left behind!” |
I will never waste food againI've been tired of throwing out food for years - not to mention tired of our huge grocery bill! I decided to make a change and vowed never to waste food again. In this blog, I'll show you how I do it. RECIPESArchives
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