Breakfast offers the greatest potential to cook and eat without waste. You’ll probably be home, not on the go, and will eat on real dishes.
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Ultimate Pumpkin and Spice Muffins with Sourdough Discard

The leftover cooked squash and sourdough starter discard in these delicious pumpkin muffins prevent food waste. We all do what we can!
How to Cook Khichdi (Kitchari), an Easy One-Pot Dish

Quickly cook a pot of khichdi (or kitchari), a comforting, one-pot dish, to enjoy throughout the week for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
Besan Chilla: Easy 5 Ingredient Savory Gram Flour Pancakes

Besan chilla—savory Indian pancakes made with gram flour—are a rich delicious vehicle for using up vegetables on hand and reducing food waste.
How to Dehydrate Apples and Fuyu Persimmons (Plus a Muesli Recipe)

Apple or Fuyu persimmon slices can serve as snack, decoration or even gift in your favorite upcycled glass jars
Better Than Bought: Homemade Nutella Without Palm Oil or Plastic

Once you taste this homemade hazelnut-cocoa spread, you can never go back to store-bought Nutella. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Vegetable Fritters

Click here to jump to the recipe I’m not sure what to call these. Fritters? Savory pancakes? Kitchen sink doughnuts? Whatever they are, they make a nice side dish for dinner or a tasty breakfast of leftovers the next morning. Their portability also makes them good for packing in lunches. Lately I’ve tried to come up with […]
Granola

Click here to go straight to the recipe. In 2011, I spent a week and a half on an organic farm in Dominica. For breakfast every morning, our hostess served us granola topped with fresh bananas, plantains, passion fruit or mango, flaked coconut and coconut milk, all harvested from nearby trees. I had recently read The Omnivore’s […]