Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is to find ways to use it up.
Speaker 1: A little thought and a few flexible recipes and tricks
Speaker 1: and tools can mean less waste, which can save time
Speaker 1: and money. I spent a few minutes on the morning
Speaker 1: I wrote this episode cutting up apples. We went apple
Speaker 1: picking for a second time this fall because my kids
Speaker 1: really love it. This was a great family activity. The
Speaker 1: only problem was that we still had a dozen apples
Speaker 1: left over from the last apple picking session. They were
Speaker 1: getting a little long in the tooth in the fridge.
Speaker 1: No one was likely to pick them up and eat them.
Speaker 1: But the good news is that even old apples work
Speaker 1: well in apple sauce. So I cut up the apples,
Speaker 1: simmered them in some water, added some sugar, mashed it all,
Speaker 1: and voila chunky, but good apple sauce. No need to
Speaker 1: throw anything out. Just about any food can be rescued
Speaker 1: from the garbage can if you rely on a few
Speaker 1: flexible kinds of foods Apples turned into apple sauce, Bananas, blueberries,
Speaker 1: and most other kinds of fruit can be frozen and
Speaker 1: turned into smoothies, which can incorporate random bits like two
Speaker 1: leftover pieces of pineapple without much trouble. I eat a
Speaker 1: lot of leftovers already, but I recently realized that cooking
Speaker 1: up a batch of rice mint I could make even
Speaker 1: more meals out of any given patch of leftovers by
Speaker 1: turning the main components into a stir fry. Mix a
Speaker 1: protein and veggies and sauce with the rice, and it's great.
Speaker 1: Add any more veggies that might otherwise go bad in
Speaker 1: the fridge and it all gets even better. Eggs can
Speaker 1: incorporate a lot of veggies that might otherwise go bad
Speaker 1: too if you scramble it all together. Askin soups, anyone
Speaker 1: wanting to reduce food waste should figure out a good
Speaker 1: kitchen sink soup recipe, as in everything can go in it,
Speaker 1: but the kitchen sink. Old kale and peppers can work
Speaker 1: as well as old spinach and celery. It's always a
Speaker 1: different soup. Just brown some aromatics, add some broth, simmer
Speaker 1: for a long time, and season to taste. These flexible
Speaker 1: recipes are a tool for reducing food waste, but there
Speaker 1: are other techniques and tools that reduce other kinds of
Speaker 1: household waste. If the sham who is no longer flowing
Speaker 1: out of your bottle add a little water, you'll get
Speaker 1: at least a few more days out of it before
Speaker 1: you need to buy a new bottle. The same is
Speaker 1: true for dish soap. If you wear makeup, a stick
Speaker 1: of concealer might dip below the top of its tube,
Speaker 1: but a Q tip can get more out and score
Speaker 1: you another week between purchases. If you have printed too
Speaker 1: many pages or no longer need what you've printed, the
Speaker 1: backside of these pages can become the perfect canvas for
Speaker 1: children's artwork or your own art if you'd like to
Speaker 1: doodle now. Of course, none of these ideas is going
Speaker 1: to save a lot of money, and hence not a
Speaker 1: lot of the time that it takes to earn the money,
Speaker 1: or at the time it takes to purchase new items.
Speaker 1: But it feels good not to have to throw a
Speaker 1: dozen apples away because they're a little discolored. Dishes that
Speaker 1: can incorporate lots of veggies, like soups or stir fries,
Speaker 1: lead to healthier eating. You hardly even notice all the
Speaker 1: greens that you are eating that this happens to save
Speaker 1: green and be green for the earth. It's really just
Speaker 1: an added bonus. If you've got genius ways of using
Speaker 1: things up, I would love to hear about them. I
Speaker 1: would particularly like to hear your soup recipes. You can
Speaker 1: email me at Laura at Laura vander Kim dot com.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and
Speaker 1: here's to making the most of our time. Hey, everybody,
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