#savethefood

[sustainablesabs]

Alright y’all not gonna lie, I am *pretty* pleased with myself for this 🔥🔥 breakfast. I’ve been craving juice for a few days now and since I don’t have a juicer, I just blended up all my ingredients (apple, carrot, unsweetened cranberry juice, ginger) in the blender and strained the pulp for a super refreshing juice 😋 now about that leftover pulp... I added some agave nectar into the purée, mixed it up, and will be using it in place of jam on my peanut butter toast the rest of the week. Bing bang boom we have a winner 🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️ #foodwasteisforchumps [image description: top down view of toast topped with PB and juice pulp purée, with a glass mug of apple-carrot-cranberry juice on the size.] • • • #zerowaste #lowimpactmovement #wastefree #trashfree #plasticfree #nowaste #notrash #noplastic #reduce #reuse #recycle #repurpose #ecofriendly #sustainable #gogreen #yayforearth #juice #savethefood #zerowastecollective #minimalist #lowwaste #lesswaste #vegan #whatveganseat #vegansofig #plantbased #plantstrong #breakfast #toast (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_7dmhoHyw9/?igshid=w3d29v170c6a

[ubifood-blog]

Alimentation zéro déchet : êtes-vous prêt?

Compostage, récupération, épiceries en vrac, cuisines communautaires… 2018 sera-t-elle l’année du zéro déchet dans le domaine alimentaire?

Compostage, récupération, épiceries en vrac, cuisines communautaires… 2018 est l’année du zéro déchet dans le domaine alimentaire! Thanks to Voir.ca for the great piece. 

[polyproticamory]

Snow day shenanigans. Recipe: savethefoood.com/cook-it/savory-broccoli-cheddar-and-bacon-scones

[sustainablesabs]

How to Save Food That’s “Gone Bad”

So you get to the grocery store and see a huge box of softening carrots. Or you’ve got some quickly blackening bananas at home and you don’t think you’ll be able to eat them up before they turn to complete mush. What is one to do? Fear not - there are so many ways to prevent food from getting tossed! Here are some of my favorites.

Apples: Make applesauce. Or apple chips. Or apple chia jam. Recipe here.

Carrots, radishes, cauliflower, onions or cucumbers: Pickle them! Recipes here and here.

Bananas: Peel, chop and place them in a container in the freezer for smoothies! Or make vegan banana bread, recipe here.

Greens: Either cook and then freeze them into squares using an ice cube tray (perfect for adding to smoothies!) or make a pesto with oil or avocado, nutritional yeast, lemon juice and nut/seed of choice. Maybe don’t use peanuts though XD

Tomatoes: Make some homemade tomato sauce, recipe here.

Avocado: For those rare beings who let avocados go bad... they can be frozen and added to smoothies for extra creaminess!

Zucchini: Freeze and add to smoothies for extra nutrition! Or make zucchini chips, recipe here.

Mushrooms: If your mushrooms have dried up in the fridge, leave them until dehydrated, then add to a food processor to create a mushroom powder. Add this as a flavoring to make a yummy broth/ramen base!

Bell peppers: Roast them and eat as is or add to a processor with chickpeas, tahini, lemon juice, garlic and salt for some delicious homemade hummus.

Herbs: Freeze them in an ice cube tray with some olive oil and throw it into a pan as a cooking base.

Honestly, freezing is always a great option, so if you really don’t know what to do throw your produce in the freezer! Did I miss anything? Let me know in the comments :) 

Xoxo, Sabs

[ubifood-blog]

11 Easy Ways to Make Your Food Last Longer

Less waste, more to eat

It's never been easier to make your food last longer! Voici quelques astuces faciles pour conserver la nourriture plus longtemps! 

[psustainable]

Bread, Thanksgiving, and Waste

This Thanksgiving I’ve been thinking a lot about bread! Not sure why; perhaps because 10% of the world doesn’t even have a loaf tonight and much less a turkey. Or because we waste about 20% of all bread at home. Or because I bought two bags of stuffing and then figured out I had frozen leftover bread which I could’ve seasoned and re-baked into stuffing...Mea Culpa: Isn’t that one of our main problems… We buy stuff we don’t need; we buy just because we can, because we don’t think of and appreciate what we already have even though it costs us.

About 40% of all food in America is wasted…so here are a few tips when planning Thanksgiving and realistically any other meal at home; it will save you money and reduce the impact on our environment.

1.       Never go to the supermarket hungry; you will buy more than you need.

2.       Make a list but check what you already have at home.

3.       Plan for leftovers; turkey makes a great stock or soup in the slow cooker and cranberry sauce on pancakes, with smoothies, or in a vodka cocktail!!! My favorite! So well deserved!!  

4.       Don’t buy single use paper and plastic plates. Have a raffle, make cleaning up fun!

5.       Try the GUEST-IMATOR dinner party calculator at savethefood.com to estimate how much food you will need.

6.       Share and be Thankful!  

PS:  How much bread do you throw out? Have you ever even tried to estimate it? I have not, but it certainly will be an exercise I will attempt and share at another time. According to savethefood.com a typical family of four in America loses about $1,500 a year on wasted food.

[informaticnishant]

🍩 Today is the World Food Day..!! . 👉 The World Food Day is celebrated every year on October 16 to draw global attention to the health consequences of contaminated food and water.🔥 . 🌻 The way in which food is produced, stored, handled and consumed affects the safety of our food.💯💯 . 🥞 The absence of food safety may harm the health of consumers.🎂🍰 . 🎉 So, let's celebrate this day with INFORMATICNISHANT and spread awareness among people.🌄🕊️ . Thank you 😊 #worldfoodday #worldfoodday2020 #savethefood #foodies #lovefoods #foodsforlifetoronto #informaticnishant (at Jeypore Orissa India) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGY5aOPgL-i/?igshid=exwguxo4skut

[polyproticamory]

I was looking through my drafts and came across this gifset recipe from when I used to work for NRDC’s Save The Food campaign. Savory vegetable scones! Uses up wilting vegetables, old milk, and cooked meat (optional).

The full recipe can be found here: https://savethefood.com/cook-it/savory-broccoli-cheddar-and-bacon-scones

A few notes:

1. If you don’t have a food processor, you can cut the butter into the flour with two knives. It will take some time, but the end result is worth it.

2. You can use whatever veggies and meat you have on hand to make these. These ingredients are more guidelines than actual rules.

3. Slightly sour milk can be used in place of buttermilk, since that’s essentially what buttermilk is. You can strain out any lumps before using, if you prefer.

4. IMHO, this might be sacrilege, but you can use just all-purpose flour in a pinch, if you don’t have whole wheat. Or use just whole wheat if you don’t have all-purpose! There are no rules.