The restaurant industry is undergoing a transformative shift towards sustainability. Today, there is a heightened awareness of the environmental impact associated with culinary practices. In 2024, the need for restaurants to reduce their footprint on the planet has never been more crucial. Let’s explore practical strategies for restaurants to champion sustainable practices, focusing on tangible steps kitchens can take to minimise …
Super simple oat milk recipe
The most zero waste recipe I know, especially if you can find oats in paper bags – I know Lidl sell them! This is part of the Sustainable Summer book I wrote with www.thefrugalfamily.co.uk.
Sourdough bread instructions
I’ve been making a loaf of bread every week for a few months now and it is starting to look ok. The recipe and the instructions are from a brilliant course I did at the Assembly Bakery. If you get a chance to do a breadmaking course it will improve your bread radically! The videos show each stage of bread …
Reducing Kitchen Waste with IKEA – Josh’s top picks
The kitchen can be a terribly wasteful place. From leftovers that never get eaten to the water we pour down the plughole when washing up. Josh an Interior Designer who is leading this years Live LAGOM project, from the Bristol IKEA gave me a nice bag of goodies to help prevent waste. Here are his top picks to help you …
How to make easy stock from food scraps
Even if you compost all your food scraps you can get more out of some of them by making stock. It is very easy. Stock cubes are a store cupboard standard for most people but vegetable stock is so easy to make there is no need to buy them. You can use your home made stock to boil rice, for …
Lidl bargain veg boxes – what you can get for £1.50
I’m always on the hunt for a bargain and I pretty much base my weekly shop on what is in the reduced section. When Lidl started to introduce £1.50 fruit and veg boxes it made me very happy indeed. Not only are they radically reducing the waste they produce they are making my weekly shop healthier and cheaper. I’ve bought …
Bellies not Bins – how the Super Supper Club stops food waste in Bristol
What is the Super Supper Club? Every Wednesday evening at a small community centre in Bristol, the Super Supper Club meet, cook and eat a sumptuous 3 course meal. Here are some of the menus from the past few weeks: To start: Minestrone soup or Vegan Laksa, Main: Meat and veggie cottage pie with carrots, white cabbage and roasted parsnips. …
Countdown to Cosy – Check the low cupboards
This is just one of the ideas in the Winning at Winter Workbook. We have a whole section called Waste Free Wednesday with loads more ideas for little things you can do to make yourself feel better. This little challenge is to check your supplies. Check the back of the cupboards too! Audit what you have Not the most exciting …
Countdown to Cosy – Leftover Food
Holidays often mean more food in the house, and that can sometimes increase the risk of waste. In the Low Waste Christmas Workbook we have loads of different ways to avoid waste and here are a couple of printables that might help you. The first is a set of signs to put on food that needs using up first. Click …
Countdown to Cosy – Cooking in bulk
Double the recipe, half the time Doubling up a recipe is pretty easy on the maths and if you work on an ‘eat one, freeze one’ principal you have saved yourself loads of time in the future. Here are a couple of recipes that are brilliant for using up bananas and can be frozen too. Great for using up gluts …
Save money, eat like a king and save food waste with Too Good To Go
Too Good To Go is a free app that saves good food from waste. Anywhere that sells food often has delicious goodies left at the end of the day. Too Good To Go helps you find those tasty treats at a bargain price. You don’t get much of a choice, you get a ‘magic bag’ which could contain anything from …
Celebrate #WaitroseUnpacked with an upcycling craft workshop
Very exciting things are happening this June. The Waitrose store in Botley Road, Oxford has a whole new unpackaged area! Enter #WaitroseUnpacked and you walk into the store to see glorious fresh vegetables totally free of plastic! Walk further back into the store and there are dried goods to put in your own containers and even refillable wine and beer! …