Aileen Grist from Oldham, Manchester said:
We've cut down our waste by about 90% by living on a very tight budget and using a shopping list.
Recipes
Fruits needn't be left in the fruit bowl to decompose, slightly dry bread can be rescued to live another day and tired vegetables can be revived. Here are some great recipes ideal for using up foods that are past their best.
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Dairy and eggs
Cereals, pasta and pulses
Breads and pastries
Meat and fish
- Bacon
- Bacon rind
- Beef
- Beefburger
- Chicken
- Cooked meat
- Fish
- Gammon
- Ham
- Lamb
- Meat
- Pork
- Prawns
- Sausage
- Sliced meats
- Turkey
Fruit
- Apple
- Apricot dried
- Apricots
- Banana
- Blackberry
- Blueberries
- Cherries
- Clementine
- Coconut
- Fig
- Grapefruit
- Grapes
- Kiwi fruit
- Lemon
- Lime
- Mango
- Nectarine
- Orange
- Peach
- Pear
- Pineapple
- Plum
- Raisins
- Raspberry
- Rhubarb
- Satsuma
- Strawberry
- Sultanas
- Tangerine
Drained Canned Fruit
Vegetables
- Baby Corn
- Beans
- Beansprouts
- Boiled Potato
- Broccoli
- Brussels sprouts
- Butternut squash
- Cabbage
- Carrot
- Cauliflower
- Celery
- chillies
- Corn
- Courgette
- Cucumber
- Diced and Cooked Swede
- French Beans
- Herbs
- Leeks
- Lettuce
- Mange tout
- Mashed Potato
- Mushrooms
- New Potato
- Olives
- Onion
- Parsnip
- Peas
- Peppers
- Potato
- Pumpkin
- Roast potato
- Runner beans
- Spices
- Spinach cooked
- Spinach Fresh
- Sugarsnap peas
- Sweet potato
- Tomato canned plum
- Tomatoes
- Vegetable peelings
- Vegetables
- Vegetable trimmings
Sauces and prepared foods
- After dinner mints
- Chocolate
- Cranberry sauce
- Dips
- Fruit Juice
- Pesto
- Tomato Ketchup
- Wine
- Yorkshire Pudding
Store cupboard and baking
