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Zero Waste Blueberry Yogurt Salad Dressing
Pledging to reduce your food waste involves better food planning. Pro tip: When you have a trip coming up, it's time to clean out the fridge. When you are heading out to travel and will be [...]
Peanut-y Chicken Thighs with Veggies
As summer ends and fall begins, schedules tend to amp up. Getting a healthy dinner on the table can sometimes add more stress to the day. Nobody wants that! Keeping some frozen veggies on hand, along [...]
Zero Waste Berry-Banana Bread
When you adopt a zero waste cooking lifestyle, you have to have a plan for your bananas. It's almost inevitable that you will have one or two overripe bananas left from every bunch you buy. You [...]
Zero Waste Tuna Salad with Buffalo Ranch Hummus
One strategy for wasting less food, is to start taking note of the bits of vegetables that end up sitting in your refrigerator. And the dips or condiments that don't quite get finished. I had noticed [...]
Try Budget-Friendly Lentils to Amp Nutrition
You are probably hearing a lot about plant-based diets these days. For some, it's an all or nothing deal. Whether you're vegetarian or vegan, or a meat-eating omnivore, plants add a health bonus to your eating [...]
Zucchini Roll-ups
My husband and I enjoyed these at a rustic French restaurant years ago, and I've been making them every summer since. You can use either yellow summer squash, or zucchini to make them. Choose any soft [...]
Rethinking Food Waste to Save Money and Eat Better
This is my hypothesis and observation: When you start working on wasting less food, you automatically end up eating better. Why? Because the celery doesn't rot in the fridge - you blend it into a smoothie. [...]
Multipurpose Super Green Super Sauce
A key strategy to reducing your food waste at home is learning to use similar ingredients in different ways. I originally made this sauce as a salad dressing. I had leftover spinach that was wilting, along [...]
