If you love borscht and you love shakshuka, try borschuka: eggs poached in red borscht. Make scrappy beet kvass while you prep. No waste!
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12 Simple Ways to Celebrate Earth Day Every Day

Take one or more of these simple 12 actions this Earth Day—and every day! As you help heal the planet, you will benefit personally.
Besan Chilla: Easy 5 Ingredient 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 Mine for Black Gold in a Compost Heap

Ideally we would eat all the food we buy but wasted food happens. Wasted food and food scraps belong in a compost bin, indoors our out.
Make Borscht Not War Recipe and a Fundraising Update

This borscht recipe uses all the beet parts to reduce food waste—the beetroot, stems and leaves. Make a bit of beet kvass with the scraps too.
Make Borscht, Not War: A Fundraiser to Help Ukraine

Raise money to support Ukraine, make a pot of vegetarian borscht with a fun group of people and get dinner on the table!
5 Top Wasted Foods and Easy Recipes for Cooking Them

This big list of recipe ideas for five of the top tossed foods will help you reduce wasted food while eating well and saving money.
Easy, Adaptable, Sweet & Sour Apple-Cranberry Chutney

Have apples a wee past their prime? Make this sweet and sour apple-cranberry chutney. Or swap out the apples for pears. Make it your own.
How to Cook Without Following Recipes or Buying More Food

Eating all the food we buy presents no downside. We shop less and save time and money, eat tastier food and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Simple Multigrain Bread With Sourdough Discard

Want another recipe to enjoy while putting a dent in your jar of sourdough discard? Try this easy multigrain sourdough discard bread.
Pumpkin and Spice Sourdough Discard Quick Bread

This pumpkin sourdough quick bread is like pumpkin pie in bread form and, if I slapped a label on it, it could honestly claim “Now BPA-Free!”
5 Simple Zero-Waste Frugal Dinners Under $12

Each $12 frugal dinner in this post serves four people, thus proving that a zero-waste or low-waste lifestyle need not cost a fortune.
Stop Pouring These 7 Leftover Flavors Down the Drain

You’ll want to save these leftover concoctions to cook with later because they add so much flavor to dishes. But you’ll also conserve water.
Simple Restaurant-Style Mexican Red Rice (Arroz Rojo)

The simple, fresh ingredients that go into this Mexican red rice elevate it from home-cooked side to tastes-as-good-as-a-restaurant dish.
How to Make Delectable Vinegar With Leftover Wine

My pineapple scrap vinegar grew a mother of vinegar, which I then used to brew wine vinegar with leftover wine to prevent all kinds of waste.