

Stop! Don’t throw away your vegetable peels straightaway. Veg Peel Crisps from Rubies in the RubbleĪ photo posted by Rubies in the Rubble on at 8:26am PST There is so much you can do with leftover vegetables it’s impossible to know where to start, so let’s begin anywhere but the dustbin.

If you’re looking for something more ambitious, try these risotto recipes using Christmas meats and festive herbs for a wholesome fusion meal:Īnd if turkey’s not the bird for you, the Hairy Bikers have a goose risotto to warm you right up.įood poverty campaigner and budget cooking expert (chef) Jack Monroe’s leftover pasties sound far more appetising than a soggy Christmas sandwich Still, the guys from Sorted Food have found a straightforward way to turn your dry turkey scraps into a gourmet “sausage” roll - all you need to do is fold some turkey, brie, parma ham, cranberry sauce (and a little bit of egg) into a roll of puff pastry, bake it in the oven, and you’re pretty much done. The name of this recipe might be a little misleading since no sausage meat is required. This festive season, here are 21 simple ideas to fight food waste from your own home.

Holiday food tastes too good to throw away, but more importantly, food waste is too unfair to get away with. Sounds like something's going wrong somewhere, then? Meanwhile, 1 in 9 people worldwide struggle to find safe, nutritious food to live a healthy life, even though the world produces more than enough food to feed everyone on the planet. And in the US, Americans throw out approximately 200 million pounds of turkey after Thanksgiving - quite a bad start to the season. That amounts to £4.8 million in wasted food.

In the UK, for example, new research found that at least 50,544 metric tons of food is thrown out at Christmas each year, including 4,800 metric tons of mince pies and 2,000 metric tons of cheese. Much of the glorious food piled onto tables during the holidays ends up lining the bin rather than your stomach. You can join us and take action on this issue here. An estimated 1.3 billion metric tons of food is wasted every year globally, while some 821 million people in the world experience hunger. Many people are involved in growing, harvesting, processing, transporting, buying, cooking, and eating the world's food - and also wasting it.
