How to use Food Scraps you usually throw out

3 Ways to use Food Scraps you usually throw out (including a FREE Food Scrap cookbook tip you’ll thank me for later)

1️⃣ Reprogram yourself and learn which parts of your fruit and veggies are edible and which are not. Way too often, we discard perfectly edible (or useful) parts of our foods, like cauliflower leaves, broccoli stalks and fruit peels. Knowledge = power so start google-ing or follow food waste warriors like @spacey_chef and @lagomchef for inspiration.

2️⃣ Learn how to cook with or process the food scraps you’d usually bin. Think of drying citrus peels for firelighters, freezing apple peels and cores for apple scrap vinegar and saving up your veggie peels, skins and cut offs to make a rich veggie stock.

3️⃣ Be inspired by this FREE cookbook that helps you combat food waste. IKEA has created The ScrapsBook, in collaboration with chefs from across North America. This cookbook is dedicated to cooking with the little things we usually throw away. Or, as we like to call it, “scrapcooking.” Scrapcooking is about finding the beautiful possibilities in that banana peel, radish top, or even the chicken bones you’re about to toss, and make the most of everything available to you. It’s little things like these that can add up to make a big difference