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Summer baked vegetable stew leftovers – takes 3-5 minutes!

This recipe takes just 3 minutes in the microwave, so really is convenience food!

Zero Waste Week 2013 – the final frontier

Congratulations! You’ve made it… Welcome to day seven of zero waste week.

Susan's quick curried rice

Perfect for using up leftover cooked rice.

Kim's pasta salad

For using up leftover pasta the following day for lunch

Serial Cereal Fruit Turnover.

When boxes of cereals, crunch, flakes or granola type of dry breakfast accumulate, it becomes necessary to use up the bits and bags before it becomes rancid and noxious. Here is a way to make use of those neglected cupboard hoarders and various lonely fruits.

Beef Curry with Chickpeas

This is a great recipe to cook in bulk then freeze the leftovers. Make it to use up leftover cooked potatoes

Don't forget the birds! Use it up Fatballs recipe

A stock-take of our store cupboards earlier this week revealed a startling number of packets of dry goods like nuts, seeds, beans and dried fruit, with only a handful of their contents left. So I begged some lard from a non-veggie work colleague and turned some of the left-over nuts, seeds and dried fruit into…

Zero Waste Week 2013 – day six; we’re rewriting the dictionary!

Welcome to day six of zero waste week. How have you got on this week? There’s only the weekend to go and I’m wondering if that makes it easier or more complicated for you to manage food waste.

Gavin's Jungle Hotpot!

This is what we do with the odd bits of veg left over from Sunday lunch

Vegetable curry and orzo pasta

This recipe was served up at the @manchestermind cafe with veg from Fareshare