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5 Top Wasted Foods and Easy Recipes for Cooking Them

Posted on February 23, 2022February 24, 2022by Anne-Marie Bonneau
A cast iron pan with an orange handle is filled with fresh fruit to bake a crumble and reduce wasted food

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.

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Stop Pouring These 8 Leftover Flavors Down the Drain

Posted on September 29, 2021February 5, 2023by Anne-Marie Bonneau
Three glass jars on a marble background, containing bean broth. They are pinto bean broth, black bean broth and kidney bean broth.

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.

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How to Make Homemade Paneer (from Rescued Milk)

Posted on May 5, 2021May 11, 2021by Anne-Marie Bonneau

Don’t cry over wasted milk. Instead, make paneer—a soft, non-aged cheese similar to ricotta—and neither waste milk nor cry over it.

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Eat All the Food You Buy and Invest the Money You Save

Posted on April 7, 2021April 8, 2021by Anne-Marie Bonneau
fresh produce spread across a burlap background

If, yearly, you invested the dollar value of food the average American family of 4 buys but doesn’t eat, in 10 years you’d have piles of cash.

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Thanksgiving Dinner for One (or Two)

Posted on November 21, 2020November 21, 2020by Anne-Marie Bonneau

Stay home to reduce the spread of Covid-19 this Thanksgiving. Plan ahead to reduce food waste.

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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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