Carrot Peel Chips
Reduce food waste from your root vegetables with these yummy chips. Ingredients: • Carrot peels (or other root vegetable peels like parsnip and beets) • Olive or avocado oil • Salt • (Optional) Powdered spices to taste such as curry, dill, garlic, ranch, even cinnamon. Directions: 1)
Cinnamon citrus peel cleaner
Simple recipe for an all-natural, no chemical cleaner that really works. Ingredients: • Peels from citrus fruits such as oranges, lemons, limes and grapefruit • White vinegar • Cinnamon sticks • (Optional) Other herbs and spices such as cloves and rosemary • (Optional) Lemon or orange
Your Produce Smoothie
Smoothies are a great way to do the same with overripe fruit. • Handful of greens (spinach, kale etc.) • Handful of not-so-ripe fruit (peaches, berries, etc.) • 1 cup yogurt, milk or milk alternative • 1 avocado or banana for creaminess Blend until liquified,
Coffee Grind Body Scrub
Ingredients: • ½ cup finely ground dry coffee beans • ½ cup sugar (white or brown) • ½ cup coconut oil • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Combine the above ingredients using a fork until well blended. Store in an air-tight container and use with water
A Bit of This and A Bit of That
We do an end-of-week cleanout to use up fresh foods before the next shop. What we typically end up with is a variety of dishes which look more like a buffet of appetizers which provides choices for everyone and can
Save butter wrappers to grease baking dishes
This tip comes from my Grandma. She would keep the foil wrapper from a stick of butter in the fridge, and save it to grease the dish or pan the next time she was baking.
Grab and go veggies
I chop up veggies ahead of time, so my kids can grab them and have a snack straight from the fridge. More veggies in their tummies, and less in our green bin.
Freeze your greens
Greens that are starting to wilt, like spinach, can be frozen. Use them in smoothies and sauces straight from the freezer.
Check your cupboards before you shop.
We once ended up with 8 jars of nut butter in our cupboard! We kept buying more without knowing if we actually needed it. Luckily it lasts a long time and we were able to use it all, but it
Green smoothies
Make green smoothies to use up produce that is past it’s best, like wilted spinach.