People are wasteful. About 10% of trash on the ground - organic. Not eaten the soup - in the sink, not overpower the pasta - in the trash. Think how much money you can save if you treat food more efficiently? We do not encourage eating expired food, just a lot of jaded dish is easy to give a second life. And as a result, rarely go to the grocery store and spend less on food. Read to the end to find out how to dispose of less than money food and that can be made from residues.
Principles culinary thrift
Regularly carry out an inventory of food stocks
I bought a packet of biscuits, and it was not pleasant household. Send it on the shelf, first from the edge, then forced. And hardens in the far corner. Such a situation familiar to many mistresses. Buying groceries, we sometimes forget about them or do not have time to use before the expiration date.
To avoid this, regularly carry out an audit in the refrigerator, shelves and cabinets. You can even record that somewhere lies and to what number it should be eaten.
Observe storage regulations
About what, where and how much to keep, in Layfhakera have a great infographics.
How to store products
In addition to it a few more tips:
- Place the products on the shelves and in cabinets so that in the front row stood perishable food and goods bought for a long time. Compose menu, focusing on them.
- Some time write down what foods you often deteriorates. Cottage cheese is useful, but maybe your family does not favor any cheesecakes or puddings. Either you buy it too much. product tracking to help understand this emission.
- Use life hacking, life-extending food.
Try to use each product before the end of
Firstly, to all to eat, learn to cook too much. It comes with experience. The more you prepare, the easier it is to determine the number of servings by the number of ingredients in a recipe and, if necessary, reduce them. Also use the utensils for cooking, commensurate with the appetites of your family. It is not necessary to prepare three-liter pot of borscht, if you live together.
Secondly, use foods to the last drop. I left "tail" of sausage? Do not rush to send it in the trash. Put in the refrigerator, it will come in handy when you want to bake a pizza or cook hodgepodge. Soured milk? Do not rush to pour it: use it for the pancake dough or make homemade cottage cheese. Bread began to dry out? Cut it into small pieces, sprinkle with seasoning and dried in an oven. It makes a great snack.
Add the bank, where there was only mayonnaise on the walls, wine vinegar and your favorite spices and carefully shake it. Get a creamy salad dressing, which can be used for at least one more time.
Fill the empty jar Nutella hot milk and shake well. Get hot chocolate.
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Put packaging with thick products upside down, especially when they come to an end, to maximize extract the contents.
Cut the plastic packaging on the walls much more tasty.
Dry the peel of lemons and oranges, grind it using a blender and use it as a fragrant citrus dressing.
If the fruit began to deteriorate, cut the soft parts, the rest is cut and send in the oven, preheated to 60-70 ° C. Below indicates the required time.
Third, be generous. Take on the job fried the night before and offered belyashi colleagues. Take a neighbor remained after the feast jelly. Invite friends for dinner - do not let the abyss stuffed cabbage.
Recipes from the remnants of food
Frittata of spaghetti
Frittata - a well-known Italian omelette being prepared with cheese, vegetables and meat. In Naples it is also often added to pasta. If you were a dinner of spaghetti, cook the frittata Neapolitan.
Ingredients:
• 200 g of cooked spaghetti;
• 3 medium onions;
• 1 medium tomato;
• 4 chicken eggs;
• 100 ml skimmed milk;
• 50 g parmesan;
• 4 hours. l. olive oil;
• 1 h. l. salt;
• 0,5 hours. l. black pepper;
• parsley, basil and other herbs.
Fry in olive oil with chopped onions. When he gains a golden color, add to it the remaining spaghetti. Broil for 5-7 minutes. From two separate eggs proteins, connect them with two whole eggs and milk and whisk together. Salt and pepper. Pour the egg mixture, and pre-fried in a shallow transcribed non-stick frying pan spaghetti with onions. Crumble greens, rub the cheese and sprinkle them on top of the omelet. Cook about 5 minutes, until the bottom part does not fry until golden brown. Then carefully turn over an omelette, to fry the second side. More about 5 minutes the meal is ready. Before serving, garnish with slices of tomato omelet.
panzanella
Panzanella - a Tuscan salad with vegetables and sauce-soaked pieces of stale bread. He, like Caesar salad, perfectly cope with the task of "attach" wither loaf.
Ingredients
For the salad:
• baguette;
• 2 medium tomatoes;
• 1 medium cucumber;
• 2 peppers (yellow and red);
• 1 small purple onion;
• 3 tbsp. l. olive oil;
• 3 tbsp. l. capers;
• 1 h. l. salt;
• basil.
For the filling:
• 100 ml of olive oil;
• 1 h. l. garlic powder;
• 0,5 hours. l. Dijon mustard;
• 3 tbsp. l. white wine vinegar;
• 0,5 hours. l. salt and ground black pepper.
Bread cut into cubes and fry in olive oil until brown. Do not forget to add salt. After that, lay out the slices of baguette on a paper towel to remove excess oil. Prepare the filling by mixing all the ingredients together for her. Tomatoes, cucumbers, onions and peppers cut. In a large bowl, combine them, basil and capers (pickled cucumbers can be replaced). Season the sauce and add the croutons. Allow the salad to infuse for half an hour and serve.
Burrito with chicken and beans
Burrito - a Mexican dish, where the cake (tortillas) wrapped meat and vegetable toppings. Its like many housewives. Firstly, nourishing, and secondly, you can wrap anything. For example, the remainder of yesterday fried chicken.
Ingredients:
• fried chicken or ispechonnaya;
• 450 g of tomato;
• 450 g of pinto bean;
• 100 g of semi-solid cheese;
• 100 g of shredded fresh cabbage;
• 6 wheat tortillas;
• 1 medium onion;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 1 tbsp. l. ground cumin;
• 2 tbsp. l. lime juice;
• 1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
• 1 h. l. red chili peppers.
Finely chop the onion and fry in vegetable oil until soft. Skip the garlic through a press and, together with cumin and pepper, add to the onions in the pan. Tomatoes and cut together with lime juice (or lemon juice) send to the pan, bring to the boil. Then reduce gas and simmer cook 15-20 minutes. Chicken fillets to cut up and cut into strips. Beans and boil with the chicken to the pan, add to the tomatoes. Simmer another 5 minutes. Then, the resulting lay stuffing of cake (tortilla can be used instead of a thin pita), sprinkle grated cheese, shredded cabbage and wrap burrito.
Fish cakes with tartar sauce
Fried or steamed fish is good only in the first hours. But that's no reason to throw it. You can put it on the original fish cakes.
Ingredients
For the meatballs:
• fillet of fried fish;
• 250 g of bread crumbs;
• 3 eggs;
• 4 cloves of garlic;
• zest of one lemon;
• 2 hours. l. soy sauce;
• for 1 h. l. salt and pepper;
• green onions;
• cilantro.
For the sauce:
• 250 g Greek yogurt;
• 200 ml of lemon juice;
• cilantro;
• green onions;
• salt and pepper to taste.
Separate the fish bones from fillets and mash with a fork. Add to it chopped zest, garlic, green onion and cilantro, and bread crumbs, one egg with the yolk and the whites of the other two eggs, soy sauce. All mix thoroughly. From the resulting mince sformuyte burgers. Cover the baking sheet baking paper, grease it with vegetable oil and place it in the chops. Post them in the oven, preheated to 200 ° C for 10-15 minutes. During this time, prepare the sauce. Mix all ingredients for it using a blender (for this pre coriander and onions chop). Serve the fishcakes, watering their sauce.
Ragout of fish and potatoes
Another way to "recycle" the fish, and along with boiled potatoes - cook them stew.
Ingredients:
• 2 pcs. boiled potatoes;
• 450 g of fried white fish or steam;
• 1 small bell pepper;
• 1 lemon;
• 100 g of ham;
• 1 tbsp. l. grain mustard;
• 3 hours. l. vegetable oil;
• 1/4 hours. l. salt and pepper;
• chives.
Potatoes and ham cut into cubes. Fish separate from the bones and cut into large chunks. Heat the oil in a frying pan, add diced ham and pepper, salt, pepper and cook for about 4 minutes. Then add the potatoes and fish, chopped Stir in mustard and green onions and cook for 2-4 minutes more. Serve garnished with lemon wedges.
For a good cook good everything except the moon and its reflection in the water.
Chinese proverb
It's not all that can be made from the remnants of food. For example, mashed potatoes are obtained excellent pancakes, and of the half-eaten meat dumplings - casserole.
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