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How to Cook Use What You Have, No Shop, No Waste Soup

Posted on October 14, 2020April 9, 2025by Anne-Marie Bonneau

Reduced food waste can play a major role in addressing the climate crisis. A pot of soup is the easiest way to ensure we eat the food we buy.

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Donate-What-You-Feel Cooking Workshop: Make Soup, Not Waste

Posted on September 21, 2020September 22, 2020by Anne-Marie Bonneau
Dutch oven with minestrone soup

Bring a pot and the random vegetables you find in your refrigerator and pantry. We’ll make soup together in this interactive workshop.

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Minestrone Soup

Posted on February 5, 2017August 28, 2019by Anne-Marie Bonneau

I love to cook not-written-in-stone recipes. Add a bit of this, a scrap of that, taste as you go, repeat. For the batch of minestrone soup pictured in this post, I used celery, carrots, a bell pepper and potatoes that I had on hand and bought some parsnips and a turnip to reach the three […]

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Make Soup, Not Waste

Posted on February 18, 2015March 17, 2020by Anne-Marie Bonneau

I find that when people realize just how much we throw into landfills and how much plastic finds its way into our oceans, most want to reduce their waste and many don’t know where to start. Unless you buy consumer goods compulsively, I would hazard a guess that your kitchen generates the most garbage—packaging and food. How bad is our food […]

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