People Are Sharing Their Genius Cooking Hacks For Giving Leftovers A New Life, Here Are 30 Of The Best

Roughly one-third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year—approximately 1.3 billion tons—gets lost or wasted. According to the data by the UN Environment Programme, every year, consumers in rich countries waste almost as much food (222 million tons) as the entire net food production of sub-Saharan Africa (230 million tons).

The numbers are hard to wrap your head around. But think of the last time you threw away that lonely avocado that sat there on a windowsill for eternity, desperate for its moment to shine in guacamole, only to end up in a bin. Then, picture all the products that ended up discarded only because you forgot they existed. Sometimes, however, we stock up on so much food we never manage to eat, and this is also the reason we contribute to worldwide food waste. It’s kind of shameful.

Being careful with grocery shopping and thinking of how much food is enough for your needs is one way to tackle the problem (and save money!). Another way is to use your ingenious skills and make the best use of anything that’s left after you ate or just purposelessly sits in the fridge.

So when someone asked “Everyone knows about using stale bread for french toast or yesterday’s rice to fry, but what are some other recipes you can use to save ingredients from the trash?” on the Cooking subreddit, people started sharing awesome ideas of putting scraps to use. We wrapped up some of the most useful and yummy ones below for you to try out!

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People Are Sharing Their Genius Cooking Hacks For Giving Leftovers A New Life, Here Are 30 Of The Best Old bananas make for an absolutely glorious milkshake with only ice and vanilla.

Old onions are best suited for making fried onion rings.

Old peaches can be easily turned into a syrup liqueur which can bring a cocktail from "alright" to "if I keep drinking this sh*t I'm going to wake up in a hammock 3 miles from my house."

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AzKhaleesi 2 years ago

That last comment though lmao.

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People Are Sharing Their Genius Cooking Hacks For Giving Leftovers A New Life, Here Are 30 Of The Best Overproofed pizza dough into focaccia, stale foccacia into croutons, croutons into breadcrumbs, breadcrumbs into meatballs.

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troufaki13 2 years ago

Nothing goes to waste!!

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People Are Sharing Their Genius Cooking Hacks For Giving Leftovers A New Life, Here Are 30 Of The Best I like to caramelize too-ripe bananas sliced in butter. Then I sprinkle them in some brown sugar and a tiny bit of salt. Oh boy — they're amazing on their own or on top of a scoop of ice cream.

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CanadaGoose 2 years ago

I sprinkle them with granulated sugar and roast over a campfire! It’s good, try it!

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To find out exactly how much food goes to waste in the UK, and what can we do to reduce food poverty, as well as some simple ways to give food new life, Bored Panda reached out to Fiona Hollis, the Head of Communications at City Harvest. City Harvest is a food redistribution charity in Action London that rescues food, people and planet, delivering free food worth £6,000 a month to 350+ charities across Greater London.

While 1 in 4 people experiences food poverty in London, UK households waste 6.5 million tons of food every year. Households waste 70% of total food waste in the UK. Almost £1.2 billion worth of fruit, vegetables and bread are binned in the UK every year. Meanwhile, 1 in 5 people claim they don’t know what to cook with random food.

People Are Sharing Their Genius Cooking Hacks For Giving Leftovers A New Life, Here Are 30 Of The Best You can shock old vegetables in ice water to restore their crispness. Stuff like celery, greens, peppers, etc that hasn't gone bad but has kind of lost its stiff/crisp texture. 2-3 minutes in ice water and it'll be like new. GAMECHANGER

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A 2 years ago

I do this with limp broccoli and cauliflower. I put them in a bowl with water and ice cubes. I put the bowl in the fridge overnight and they're perfect the next day.

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People Are Sharing Their Genius Cooking Hacks For Giving Leftovers A New Life, Here Are 30 Of The Best Soup. Soup. Soup. I'm no historian but as the primary cook in the house, I'm fairly certain that soup was invented in order to not waste valuable calories.

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bumble bee 2 years ago

Remember the #1 rule about all soups.... It's all about the broth

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I use french fries I bring home with restaurant leftovers to make ersatz hashbrowns. Dice them, add some chopped onion and fry up in bacon grease.

I've never found french fries palatable as leftovers, if I didn't have this technique available I'd never bother bringing them home from the restaurant.

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Catherine Binder 2 years ago

What are these leftover fries that you speak of?

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When asked about the dangers of food waste, Hollis explained that landfill-bound food waste, either commercial or domestic, emits harmful GHG emissions, such as methane, largely contributing to climate change. “Not only does the waste product at the end of the UK food supply chain warm the planet with methane emissions, but the extensive energy used in farming, manufacturing, and transporting goods, as well as the vast amounts of water it takes to get food to our plates,” she said and added that a lot of resources, energy, and labor go into the food we eat.

Reducing the household’s food waste would give a significant boost to your bank balance. In fact, Hollis said that for an average family with children, approximately £700 a year of wasted household food could be saved.“During the first lockdown,” Hollis said, “there was a sharp decrease in reported levels of food waste, thanks in part to the food management behaviors people adopted during lockdown.”

People Are Sharing Their Genius Cooking Hacks For Giving Leftovers A New Life, Here Are 30 Of The Best Leftover mashed potatoes into tater cakes or pierogies.

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Monday 2 years ago

What is this "leftover" you speak of? Do you mean to tell me you don't gorge yourself until there is nothing left of those smashed spuds?

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People Are Sharing Their Genius Cooking Hacks For Giving Leftovers A New Life, Here Are 30 Of The Best Bacon grease is indispensable. Use it to fry anything, but know you haven't lived until you've swapped it for butter to make the best-ever chocolate chip cookies.

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Blurryface 2 years ago

I’m torn… that’s either a really good idea, or the worst idea I’ve ever heard about both bacon and chocolate chip cookies.

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I'll introduce you to a Romanian dish called "Shut up and Eat"(no,really,that's the name of the dish."Taci si înghite" ).

In my region it is eaten before the beginning of Lent. Since Christian orthodox basically go full vegan during our fasting times,we had to consume the animal products that were left from the winter. Thus, Taci si înghite was born.

It's basically a polenta cooked with milk instead of water, a lot of butter and cheese. Then,stick it in a deep baking dish and throw on top of it any other cheese and meat you have left in your fridge and you want to eat before they go bad. Bake it untill the meat is cooked.

Eat this with some pickles and a light, red sour wine. Enjoy

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QuokkaVibes 2 years ago

Fun to know: "taci" is shut up in italian too :)

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Hollis also shared a couple of simple and very useful tips for giving food another life. First method is pickling. “It’s easy to pickle fresh veg that might be on the turn using a few store cupboard staples (vinegar, seeds, and spices). Great veg to pickle: radish, cucumber, courgette, onion, cauliflower,” she said.

Another great way of cooking from scraps is preserving. Think of jam, it’s “the solution to any fruit on its way out. You don’t even need to buy specific jam sugar, just caster sugar and a big squeeze of lemon. (This adds pectin⁠—to help the jam set).”This one you may already be practicing. It’s freezing! Hollis suggests freezing your discarded bits of fruit and vegetables for smoothies or soups is an easy win and quick breakfast, lunch, or dinner.

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People Are Sharing Their Genius Cooking Hacks For Giving Leftovers A New Life, Here Are 30 Of The Best Recently had some stale olive bread. Was sad I couldn’t make French toast with olives in it…

Solution: savory French toast. Was amazing! Egg dip included herbs and salt. Topped with Fig balsamic and olive oil. Loved it and plan to make again!

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Lousha 2 years ago

Hungarian here, I was horrified when I first discovered that people in other parts of the world put sugar and cinnamon on their "bread in coat" . For us it's a comfort food, you dip the bread into salted eggs, fry them in a ton of oil and eat them on their own as dinner, coupled with some nice hot tea with lemon and sugar, or use it as a non-meat topping on vegetable stews.

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People Are Sharing Their Genius Cooking Hacks For Giving Leftovers A New Life, Here Are 30 Of The Best When cherry or grape tomatoes start to get all pruny, I like to sauté them with garlic and herbs until blistered. Top with lemon juice and it’s a great side or appetizer.

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troufaki13 2 years ago

I usually make them into tomato sauce, make it into portions and freeze them.

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People Are Sharing Their Genius Cooking Hacks For Giving Leftovers A New Life, Here Are 30 Of The Best You can save overripe bananas for banana bread.

Or freeze them for 6 months and toss, your choice.

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AnnaBanana 2 years ago

Mmmmmmm banana bread!!

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Caro Caro 2 years ago

Banana milkshake...

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Kristof De Smet 2 years ago

Freeze old bananas sliced, add some yoghurt, and sometimes some honey. Blend. Makes great ice cream.

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Aileen Grist 2 years ago

I love black bananas - and bananas that have been frozen have lots of syrup - just from the ice melting. Gotgeous

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Gina Babe 2 years ago

But I did this and they turned so brown my mom tried using them as sausages

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Epiphonia 2 years ago

Frozen, overripe bananas make good smoothies! if you don't know what else to add, add the usual milk and ice, then add some banana, chocolate sauce, peanut butter, and a bit of coffee grounds

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Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago

Just made some last weekend. Husband likes it so much he’s been taking a healthy-sized slice to work every day this week.

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Saturn Ascends 2 years ago

Bananas are not ready for bread until you can smell them from the next room.

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Deep One 2 years ago

Banana bread with walnuts is the best!

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Henry Crank 2 years ago

Best use of over ripe bananas ever! Learned this from mom when I was a kid. As an adult, I've literally called her and said I have over ripe bananas. Can we make banana bread? LOL! She always says yes. Mom's is always better .

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Cathy Jo Baker 2 years ago

Or make banana berry oatmeal muffins. 2 cups oats, 4 bananas, 4 eggs, 2 cups berries (I use blueberries or cherries, frozen, easy peasy).Throw it all (minus berries) in blender or food processor. Add 2 T maple syrup or agave nectar, 1t baking powder, salt and cinnamon, or spices of choice. Mix together, add berries. Bake at 350 20-30 minutes. Yum.

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SoozeeQ 2 years ago

Thanks for the recipe, Cathy Jo. (I see that you're a Baker who likes to bake!)

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CanadaGoose 2 years ago

My mom does this!

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Vickie Tackett 2 years ago

I Love banana bread! I make it as much as possible!

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Rachel Harries 2 years ago

Nice cream! Yum

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Keisha 2 years ago

Also when you are tired of the banana bread you can turn it into banana bread pudding. My daughter-in-law absolutely loves when I make both.

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Rick Wright 2 years ago

Or make overripe bananas into banana bread, freeze and then toss after six months.

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Lynne Monteith 2 years ago

Chocolate Banana Brownies!

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Irishwoman abroad 2 years ago

Or banana muffins, yum

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Jimmy Lewis 2 years ago

Yep, they are excellent for this.

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Niall Mac Iomera 2 years ago

...freeze for 6 months and then throw out?

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Shelli Aderman 2 years ago

I tend to do the latter, always with the best of intentions, however! 🤣

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Chel Bolin 2 years ago

I slice and freeze on a cookie sheet, then bag. Use for smoothies. No ice needed. Makes super thick, cold, healthy shakes. Add fruit or chocolate candy.

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Dorothy Parker 2 years ago

We do both.

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SusanS 2 years ago

frozen bananas make great banana bread and go well into smoothies

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Spittnimage 2 years ago

Umm, that's a hack grammas came up in the last century.

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Krs10Hall 2 years ago

This is why I have over a dozen of frozen bananas in my freezer!

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Liz Reid 2 years ago

Slice them and freeze spread out on baking paper on a baking tray. Then blitz with milk and some banana milkshake powder, it makes great soft scoop ice cream.

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Gabby M 2 years ago

Zucchini too.

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If you have stale bread resting on the counter, here are some great reusing solutions. It’s excellent for breadcrumbs “for making meatballs, topping pasta, frying, gazpacho⁠—these can even be used for desserts, like treacle tart!” Another great recipe for stale bread is panzanella salad (tomatoes, veg, mozzarella, dressing to moisten fat croutons of stale bread). Also, it’s great for croutons that go in soups and salads.

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People Are Sharing Their Genius Cooking Hacks For Giving Leftovers A New Life, Here Are 30 Of The Best A friend's Grandmother used to take stale bread, cover it in butter , cook it in the oven until it was super crispy. It was amazing. the only thing I can compare it to is a crouton. We ate it as snack. Really crunchy and crisp.

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DuchessDegu 2 years ago

My grandparents did that as well. It's incredible with soup!

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People Are Sharing Their Genius Cooking Hacks For Giving Leftovers A New Life, Here Are 30 Of The Best No one is going to notice those peppers are a little soft and wrinkly if you roast them.

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Caro Caro 2 years ago

I love this. When cooled take off the skin. Put the peppers in some olive oil. Great with prosciutto and crusty bread..

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People Are Sharing Their Genius Cooking Hacks For Giving Leftovers A New Life, Here Are 30 Of The Best My favorite way to use leftover food is to take day-old vegetables and mashed potatoes and fry them up into the classic British recipe bubble and squeak.

So named because it bubbles, and squeaks, in the frying pan as it cooks.

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Wang Zhuang 2 years ago

This is the first time in my entire 41 years of life that I have ever heard of bubble and squeak. This dish sounds like the name of a car wash.

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Hollis said that bananas are the most wasted food item in the UK. But here are some great tips to reuse them. She suggests “Banana pancakes (just egg and ripe banana⁠—add some cinnamon, too); banana bread (boring); banana skin as vegan meat alternative (shredded⁠—similar to pulled meat effect⁠—jackfruit).”

Moreover, “Vegetable leftovers, even onion and garlic skin, can be boiled up with salt and other vegetable scraps to make a delicious stock. Vegetable stock is so versatile and can be used for: flavorsome soups, stews, risottos, and pies,” Hollis suggested.

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People Are Sharing Their Genius Cooking Hacks For Giving Leftovers A New Life, Here Are 30 Of The Best I'm not sure if this is a revelation to anyone, but eat the greens that come on your beets and radishes! They are delicious. I especially love beet greens, similar but even better than chard imo. When I buy beets now I feel like I'm getting a 2 for 1 vegetable.

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CanadaGoose 2 years ago

My grandma plants these and we eat the greens! They’re really good!

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People Are Sharing Their Genius Cooking Hacks For Giving Leftovers A New Life, Here Are 30 Of The Best This one is a game changer…. Got stale bread? Briefly run it under the tap (only is there is a lot of crust showing) and throw it in the oven at 400 for like 7 mins or until stuff evaporates. Works absolute wonders for no knead bread. I imagine you can do this with sliced bread just maybe spray water instead.

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FloC 2 years ago

Horses are going to be so disappointed if there is no stale bread left.

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People Are Sharing Their Genius Cooking Hacks For Giving Leftovers A New Life, Here Are 30 Of The Best Mealy and bruised apples make nice apple sauce. I put applesauce on my morning porridge.

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Catherine Binder 2 years ago

They also make for good cobbler, as does any wrinkly stone fruit and/or over ripe berries.

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In order to reduce food waste, you may want to clean out your cans. “When making anything, from pasta sauce to chili con carne, if you use something like tinned tomatoes, swill out the can with water/olive oil/stock to get the very last drop out of everything.” If you still haven’t got one at home, a rubber spatula makes an amazing tool to rescue food. Hollis explained that “this is the ultimate zero-waste utensil that will remove even the smallest trace of food from any mixing bowl or saucepan⁠—ensuring it all gets used/eaten.”

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People Are Sharing Their Genius Cooking Hacks For Giving Leftovers A New Life, Here Are 30 Of The Best Leftover cooked vegetables make a killer hash or frittata.

Leftover cooked rice becomes rice pudding just by heating one part rice, one part milk (and whatever sweeteners or flavors you want) on the stove in a pot until it thickens to where you like it.

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Jo Johannsen 2 years ago

Cinninnamon! 😁

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People Are Sharing Their Genius Cooking Hacks For Giving Leftovers A New Life, Here Are 30 Of The Best Saving parmesan rinds for soups and sauces.

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Caro Caro 2 years ago

Yep! Just toss the rind in with the sauce and it adds flavour. Never waste cheese :)

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Cauliflower leaves. Chop them up to smaller bits, put in a pan with a knob of butter. I like to add some garlic too. Then fry until they're crispy and you have either a really tasty snack as it is or it can be tossed to a salad. Really delicious from something you wouldn't think of using normally.

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You kidding me 2 years ago

Too bad most of the cover leaves are removed before they sell them at the market.

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People Are Sharing Their Genius Cooking Hacks For Giving Leftovers A New Life, Here Are 30 Of The Best Leftover fish - make fish cakes.

In general I find leftover cooked fish to be pretty gross and very difficult to reheat in any way that makes it still enjoyably edible (and doesn’t make everyone hate you for putting fish in the microwave). But you can just flake up the fish and toss it in any “crab cake” recipe you like, and it’s seriously good!

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Russ Kincade 2 years ago

Especially salmon. Mix catsup & horseradish for cocktail sauce and you have a winner!

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I use leftover mashed potatoes to make gnocchi. Just add egg, flour, and salt, and you've got homemade potato dumplings ready to be boiled and served with your favorite sauce.

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You kidding me 2 years ago

I did this last night for the first time, after cooking them, threw them in a pan with container of chicken soup from Costco, was a hit with family.

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People Are Sharing Their Genius Cooking Hacks For Giving Leftovers A New Life, Here Are 30 Of The Best Alton Brown calls quiche refrigerator velcro, and he's not wrong. Almost any savory item, fresh or leftover, can be worked into a quiche, or a frittata.

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MizAdeleM 2 years ago

My sister calls that a "fridge scrape".

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People Are Sharing Their Genius Cooking Hacks For Giving Leftovers A New Life, Here Are 30 Of The Best I like to turn leftover Bolognese into a filling for wraps. So instead of having it three days in a row, I'll repurpose it to switch things up a bit.

So day 1 I'll make Bolognese sauce for pasta (completely inauthentic using ground beef and everything), and day 2 I'll add a can of tomatoes, two cans of beans (kidney or black beans), corn and bell peppers. Seasoning with garlic, chili and cumin overpowers the original Bolognese-taste and turns it into something closer to a chilli. Cook until thickened a bit. The sauce is enough to serve 3 people for 2 days.

We use that mix as a filling for wraps and serve it fresh with lettuce (to prevent sogginess), a blob of Creme Fraiche, grated cheese of choice, spring onions and cherry tomatoes.

It's also a great way to cut down on meat, as it makes 1 lbs of ground beef last for 3 days worth of meals, yet you still get plenty of protein and veggies.

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Donkey boi 2 years ago

When I make Bolognese, I make enough for 8 people. My wife has a portion and I have 7 portions. I don't understand how there could ever be Bolognese left over?

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People Are Sharing Their Genius Cooking Hacks For Giving Leftovers A New Life, Here Are 30 Of The Best Bits and bobs of cheese for quiche or fromage forte.

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Caro Caro 2 years ago

Oh yes yes yes .... :D

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People Are Sharing Their Genius Cooking Hacks For Giving Leftovers A New Life, Here Are 30 Of The Best Leftover bread to thicken soup & sauces.

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Caro Caro 2 years ago

Or make pangratto. https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/orecchiette-cavolo-nero-anchovies-pangrattato

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People Are Sharing Their Genius Cooking Hacks For Giving Leftovers A New Life, Here Are 30 Of The Best If you peel some shrimp, save the shells for seafood stock. Same goes for lobster, mussel, etc shells, fish bones/heads and stuff like that. Freeze it and mix it all together for great seafood stock.

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Timmy Pillinger 2 years ago

Or garum

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Italian fun fact: Arancini was leftover risotto and the ragu/bolognese or cheese on the inside was usually leftover as well.

Those little cheesy rice balls were my life growing up!

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Drea Benoit 2 years ago

Arancini is sooooooooo good :)

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People Are Sharing Their Genius Cooking Hacks For Giving Leftovers A New Life, Here Are 30 Of The Best There is a spanish dish following this exact logic, it's called 'ropa vieja' (old clothes).

You make it with leftover cocido (chickpea stew, it is usually drained and eaten dry/semi dry, and the resulting broth used in soup later). Add some onion for extra flavour and cook it in a pan.

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Wang Zhuang 2 years ago

But doesn't ropa vieja usually include shredded chicken or some other meat?

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Fruit that is sad and squishy but not moldy can be turned into delicious crisp/cobbler pretty quickly. Cup into bit sized pieces, toss with sugar or brown sugar and a thicker like cornstarch or tapioca flour. Optionally add some spices like cinnamon or nutmeg. Then sprinkle with a quick crumb topping. I usually mix together oats, flour, sugar and butter, but you could even use up some stale cookie crumb. Bake in the oven until the topping is browned and the fruit is bubbly. You can mix multiple fruits together. Apples, pears, berries and stone fruits all work well.

DDmaybeandor 2 years ago

Poultry is my favorite. First meal, roast bird. Second meal, cut most meat from bones and make casserole or add to stir fry. Third meal, boil whole carcass with appropriate veggies to make most amazing soup stock.

Kat 2 years ago

We keep bread leftovers in the freezer until there is enough for bread pudding: soak in warm milk, add some eggs, cornstarch, bit of sugar, cinnamon pound it with a potato masher. Fold in some raisins, apple pieces, maybe even chocolate flakes... And then bake it in the oven like a cake

BasedWang 2 years ago

Do NOT throw away your collard green stems. If making Southern Collard Greens do your do, but with the stems... throw them buddies in a pan with some chicken or beef stock, or some of the likker from the ham hock water for the greens.... Some garlic, cumin, onion whether dehydrated or not and let them simmer a whiiiile.... cover up that pan and steam em until soft..... mmmmmmmmm

Sivi 2 years ago

If you dont feel like banana bread there is always banana chocolate cake :D . You can also freeze peaces of chocolate cake for later^^

Jo Choto 2 years ago

Chief source of domestic food waste is impulse buying food without any plan for how you are going to use it. If you really care about food waste, make yourself a menu plan and only buy the food you know you will use.

Alicia GriffonLady 2 years ago

We give spoiling food to our spoiled chickens. No waste here.

Misty Mills 2 years ago

Quesadillas are magical. If you have cheese and two tortillas, you can take leftover meat, veggies (or fruits like tomatoes) you probably won’t eat, basically just anything you like and know you aren’t gonna eat. Put it in a quesadilla and eat it for lunch (or dinner). Of course, this doesn’t work with everything but if I have extra bell pepper slices, rice from a few nights ago, leftover meatballs… etc, I’ll usually make it into a quesadilla on a weekend. It’s pretty quick, too. And it’s something most people like, regardless of age

Erik Ivan 2 years ago

Leftover sausage is made into dog food about a nano second after we finnished the meal - if our Ragnar has anything to say about it.

Larry Thompson 2 years ago

Most of this is foor that ends up being both bad and bad for you. Learn to portion eat non processed and stay away from s**t food.

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