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How to Make Aquafaba from Home-Cooked Chickpeas

Posted on March 21, 2024March 21, 2024by Anne-Marie Bonneau
The wire whip attachment of a stand mixer has a stiff white peak of whipped aquafaba on the tip. In the background is a painting of yellow flowers.

Transform chickpea broth from cooked-cooked beans into aquafaba. Use it for delicious meringues, macaroons, mayonnaise and more.

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How to Turn Old Jeans into an Awesome Denim Bag

Posted on February 27, 2024February 27, 2024by Anne-Marie Bonneau
Back view of a denim bag made out of old jeans

Transform an old pair of jeans into a hip and sturdy denim bag while keeping fabric out of the waste stream.

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Make Frugal Foraged Nasturtium Pesto in a Jiffy

Posted on February 8, 2024April 10, 2024by Anne-Marie Bonneau
A hand holds a jar of nasturtium spinach pesto. In the background grow many many bright green nasturtium plants.

When nasturtiums appear in the spring, make this frugal nasturtium spinach pesto. Or for more pepper flavor, go all in on nasturtium leaves.

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How to Make Oat Flour and Save Money

Posted on January 31, 2024April 15, 2024by Anne-Marie Bonneau
Hands hold a smaller jar of oat flour (left) and a larger flour of rolled oats (right)

Make oat flour out of rolled oats in less time that it would take you to run to the store and buy it, even if you live beside the store.

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Donate Old Eyeglasses, Clean the New with Two Ingredients

Posted on January 24, 2024January 31, 2024by Anne-Marie Bonneau

Some medical essentials can be lower waste, like glasses. Keep an old pair out of landfill and clean the new pair waste-free.

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Quick and Easy 5-Ingredient Vegan Irish-ish Soda Bread

Posted on January 11, 2024January 11, 2024by Anne-Marie Bonneau
A hot loaf of freshly baked vegan soda bread baked with soy buttermilk cools in a cast iron pan sitting on a metal rack.

Want to bake bread but find the process intimidating? Start with soda bread. This version contains soy milk and four other basic ingredients.

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Quick Homemade Vegan Buttermilk Made With Soy Milk

Posted on January 4, 2024January 4, 2024by Anne-Marie Bonneau
Looking down into a full jar of homemade soy milk curdling into vegan buttermilk. The jar is sitting on a dark wood table.

Can’t eat dairy? Going vegan? Make buttermilk from soy milk with two ingredients and less than five minutes.

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Easy No-Waste Applesauce, Skins On and Unsweetened

Posted on November 13, 2023November 13, 2023by Anne-Marie Bonneau
A potato masher is mashing cooked apple chunks down into chunky applesauce

If you find yourself with more apples on your hands than you can eat before they head south, make this disappearing, delicious applesauce.

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How to Make Fig Leaf Tea with Foraged Fig Leaves

Posted on July 14, 2023July 14, 2023by Anne-Marie Bonneau
A cup of fig leaf tea brews in a mason jar. A jar of fig leaf tea sits nearby. Both jars are sitting on a dark wooden table.

Fig leaf tea tastes something like mild green tea—grassy and earthy—and has a sweet woody fragrance. Forage the leaves and drink for free!

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