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We have pulled together some delicious recipes that will help you use up leftovers, veg on the edge, and other ingredients that are too good to throw away but maybe just a little past their best! We also have ideas for using seasonal food gluts like apples, pumpkins and lettuce.
These recipes are not only delicious but also a great way to help prevent food waste.
Give the recipes a try and let us know your favourites. We would love to hear from you!
Recipe
Tue 25 Apr 2023
Use up extra chilli’s and red peppers to make this delicious sweet chilli jam!
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Recipe
Tue 4 Apr 2023
So many things you can do with this sweet, colourful and tasty vegetable. Available in our shops all year round and good value too! Here we share a salad recipe, but of course carrot cake is also a perfect option to use a up a few bendy carrots and you feel like a treat!
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Recipe
Tue 28 Mar 2023
Borrowed from “national treasure” Delia Smith. Perfect for gardeners and allotment keepers who get a glut of lettuce through the summer. Also a perfect option to use up bagged salad which may have gone past it’s best. Every bit of food, however small, we can save from the bin helps our planet as well as […]
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Recipe
Tue 21 Mar 2023
Every day in the UK, 920,000 bananas are wasted! Here’s a great way to use up over ripe bananas, they are also perfect for ice cream and smoothies!
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Recipe
Tue 14 Mar 2023
Ingredients 1 tbsp oil (olive is suggested) 1 clove garlic, chopped 1 x 400g chopped tomatoes, passata or tomato juice 1 tbsp tomato puree (if using tomato juice) 1 tsp dried oregano or 1 tbsp of fresh oregano 1 tsp sugar Salt and pepper to taste Method Heat 1 tbsp oil in a pan on […]
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Recipe
Wed 11 Jan 2023
Sent by Food Hub member, Silvia Ingredients: 1kg of fruit I used apples Blackberries (optional: damsons, raspberries, grapes) 100g caster sugar 80ml water Method: 1. Peel and roughly chop the apples, wash the blackberries and put all of the fruit in a large, heavy-based pan. Add about 80ml water, just enough to stop the […]
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