With a little bit of love and the right recipe you can turn any ingredient into a tasty meal that will be too good to waste. What do you need to use up? Let us help you.
Find A RecipeIf you make your own nut milk then don't waste the almond pulp. These easy chocolate brownies use almond pulp and aquafaba so they really are a zerowaste treat!
Full of flavour, these cauliflower steaks are great as a side or as an entrée served with yoghurt or sour cream and topped with fresh herbs. It’s a great way to eat the whole of a cauliflower - stalks and all.
Save your apple peels and cores to make your own apple cider vinegar. Use it as a salad dressing, a marinade for steak, a health tonic or even to wash your hair.
A spectacular vegetarian main dish that makes the most of your cauliflower.
Here’s a great hack for turning stale bread crusts into a delicious dessert in under 10 minutes.
Don't throw away your broccoli or cauliflower stalks! Use them to make a tasty curry instead
This yummy pasta recipe uses the entire silverbeet - stalks and all. The silverbeet leaves are wilted down with a little lemon juice. The stalks are blanched and then oven roasted until slightly caramelised, which makes them super tender, then topped with a herb & lemon crumb. It's all tossed together with a thick pappardelle pasta and a good helping of grated parmesan.
This fresh spring salad uses the entire cauliflower stalks and stems to replace the bulgar wheat that’s usually found in tabbouleh. Perfect for anyone who is gluten-free this recipe is full of fresh herbs and the inclusion of oranges adds a lovely sweetness.
These easy peel muffins use banana and orange peels. Give them a go - you will be surprised how good they taste.
This jelly is made from apple and orange peels and the skin from root ginger and is perfect on toast. The key is to freeze the peels over time until you have enough, and then make the jelly on a day when it is miserable outside.
Save your apple peels and cores to make your own apple cider vinegar. Use it as a salad dressing, a marinade for steak, a health tonic or even to wash your hair.
Here’s a great hack for turning stale bread crusts into a delicious dessert in under 10 minutes.
A tasty and easy way to use up your leftover kūmara and potato peels.
Leave the skins on to make smashed potatoes - fluffy on the inside and crispy on the outside.
Full of flavour, these cauliflower steaks are great as a side or as an entrée served with yoghurt or sour cream and topped with fresh herbs. It’s a great way to eat the whole of a cauliflower - stalks and all.
A spectacular vegetarian main dish that makes the most of your cauliflower.
Use up the whole of your cauliflower - stalks and all - by making this lemon and herb cauliflower rice.
This sauce can be made with oranges, tangelos or lemons. It goes well with leftover pork or chicken, but would also work well with ice cream for dessert.
This easy cordial recipe can be made out of lemons, limes or grapefruit. It takes less than 10 minutes to make so it's an easy way to make the most of seasonal citrus.
When your trees are groaning with lemons, limes and mandarins, why not save the skins and make your own citrus cleaning spray? This simple eco friendly cleaner can also help you cut down on how much plastic you use.
If you make your own nut milk then don't waste the almond pulp. These easy chocolate brownies use almond pulp and aquafaba so they really are a zerowaste treat!
This is a concentrated vegetable stock paste. Unlike conventional vegetable stock you use up all the ingredients instead of straining them out at the end saving all that goodness. You can even use your vegetable scraps to make it and it lasts for up to 4 months.
Making homemade seed crackers reduces your plastic waste and these super easy crackers use any combination of seeds and flours.