10 foods and drinks to reuse before throwing them away

No to food waste. Leftover, overripe or just expired beverages and foods are easy to reuse in a thousand different ways, for example for personal care and home care. Often leftovers, such as dry bread or centrifuged waste, are perfect to be reinvented to create ever new recipes. We try not to throw food away. It is a truly precious resource that we can learn to consume to the full.



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No to food waste. Leftover, overripe or just expired beverages and foods are easy to reuse in a thousand different ways, for example for personal care and home care. Often leftovers, such as dry bread or centrifuged waste, are perfect to be reinvented to create ever new recipes. We try not to throw food away. It is a truly precious resource that we can learn to consume to the full.



Index

Stale bread

10 foods and drinks to reuse before throwing them away

With the stale bread you can prepare homemade breadcrumbs or use it for numerous sweet and savory recipes: stale bread cake, hand-made gnocchi, Trentino dumplings, croutons, soups and tomato soup are just some of the ideas that you can put into practice for don't waste even a crumb of leftover bread. Check out our recipes with stale bread.

Advanced or expired milk (also vegetable)

10 foods and drinks to reuse before throwing them away

How to use leftover milk? In times of crisis it is good to avoid any waste and never throw anything away, especially when it comes to drinks or food. The leftover or expired milk - perhaps only for a couple of days - can be reused for cleaning the house, for skin care, and more. Here are some interesting tricks to reuse expired milk. Those who do not drink cow's milk can replace it with plant milk.

Advanced or expired yogurt (including vegetable)

10 foods and drinks to reuse before throwing them away

Lo just expired yogurt it could still be edible, and usable for example to make sweets and yogurt cakes, but if you don't trust it you can try reusing it for skin or hair care. For example, you can add it to your henna preparation, prepare a face mask or body scrub and apply it on sunburns to relieve redness.

Read also: Yogurt: 10 amazing alternative uses

Tea, tea bags and tea leaves

10 foods and drinks to reuse before throwing them away

Never throw away the leftover tea, tea bags or tea leaves that have already been used. The tea leaves, the bags that contain it and the infusion itself can be used or reused for many purposes. For example, they will help you with home cleaning, creating do-it-yourself beauty remedies and taking care of your garden. After reading our fifty possible alternative uses, you will no longer waste even a drop of this precious and wondrous drink.



Also read: 50 mind blowing alternative uses of tea

Very ripe bananas

10 foods and drinks to reuse before throwing them away

Have bananas become too ripe for your taste? Absolutely do not throw them away. You can combine them with fruit alatra to prepare homemade smoothies and ice creams. With the mature banana cut into small pieces and then frozen it is very simple to prepare an ice cream without an ice cream maker. Just blend them alone, with other frozen fruit, such as blueberries or raspberries, or with cocoa. You will get really delicious alternative ice cream. Or you can take a look at the other alternative uses of bananas.

Lemon juice and zest

10 foods and drinks to reuse before throwing them away

Nothing is thrown away from the lemon: both the juice and the zest can be very useful in our daily life, meeting the most diverse needs, not exclusively food. Thanks to its antibacterial and detergent properties, in fact, lemon is an excellent ally both in house cleaning and in personal care, as well as having a fresh and unmistakable taste that also makes it a recurring ingredient in both sweet and savory recipes. THU many alternative uses. The same goes for orange peel.

Read also: 22 uses of lemon, including zest

Waste of centrifuged and vegetable milk

10 foods and drinks to reuse before throwing them away

After drinking your healthy fresh juice, try not to throw them away waste from the centrifuge. In part you can use them for composting, but there are numerous uses that will allow you to exploit them to prepare very original recipes, from homemade cakes to jams, from biscuits to vegetable cheese. Take a look at our recipes with centrifuged waste.


Fruit and vegetable peels

10 foods and drinks to reuse before throwing them away

Le fruit and vegetable peels most of the time they are good and edible, as well as rich in beneficial nutrients. Better to choose to consume the peel of organic fruit and vegetables or from your own garden, or wash the products purchased at the supermarket very well. However, there are numerous alternative uses of fruit and vegetable peels that are very interesting beyond the food ones.


Chocolate

10 foods and drinks to reuse before throwing them away

Il chocolate usually never advances, but if it should advance after the holidays or if with the arrival of summer you have forgotten it at the bottom of the pantry, we still suggest numerous original ideas for reusing the chocolate, even that of the Easter Egg, in so as not to waste even a little, as we should do for any other type of food.

Frying oil

10 foods and drinks to reuse before throwing them away

Never reuse frying oil in the kitchen and do not throw it down the domestic drain. In fact, a single liter of oil can pollute millions of liters of water. You can decide to collect it in a bottle to deliver it to the ecological islands or the collection points for used oils, or use it to prepare an ecological soap at home from used oil, suitable for laundry and house cleaning.

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