Helping to prevent food waste one recipe at a time.
Where has the summer gone? Summer, for me, officially started on the 13th of June when I set off from Britain’s most northerly RNLI station on an epic bikepacking trip south through Orkney and the highlands of Scotland, off road down the Great Glen Way and then climbed Ben Nevis.
It was a magical two weeks of adventuring, followed by a quick visit home to collect the family before heading off on a press trip to Brussels for a weekend Belgium Chocolate Experience. I was home again for about ten days and then I was off to Norway for a week’s camping just outside Bergen (a Bergen on a budget blog post is planned!) and then it seems I’ve lost the last few weeks trying to catch up on work!
Now, the kids are back at school and I have finally caught up on all imminent freelance deadlines, so I can now work through the rest of my ever growing To Do list, including this No Waste Food Challenge round up which is terribly late! A huge thank you to Michelle over at Utterly Scrummy Food for Families who guest hosted the challenge while I was away travelling, and here I present to you the Summer Collection of the No Waste Food Challenge – 17 mouth watering recipes using up ingredients which might otherwise have ended up in the bin.
These delectable summer strawberry, banana and custard lollies are made with leftover custard and seasonally cheap strawberries. Pop on over to Fab Food 4 All, the queen of all things frugal and delicious for the recipe!
Choclette over at Tin & Thyme shows us just how easy it is to make our own rhubarb and ginger chutney. Her recipe adds a fresh and spicy kick to cheese, roasted vegetables and many other dishes. It also goes well with curry, she says. It’s a great way to use up some of that rhubarb you might have stored in the freezer, like I did!
This summer I used up some vegetable shortening that was going out of date and a few eggs that were already past their best by in these rather scrummy M&M Cookies. Vegetable shortening adds a rather good texture to cookies, I think, as opposed to butter.
Sarah over at Tales from the Kitchen Shed makes some rather delicious tuiles – pop on over to her blog to see how easy they are to make!
Have you picked up a bag of ripe avocados past their best by date? Corin from Pro Ware Kitchen comes to the rescue with this rather tasty guacamole for a crowd recipe!
Use up some leftover pesto and turn some potentially dry and bland turkey steaks into a quick, easy and tasty family meal with this recipe for baked turkey steaks with pesto and cheese from Ness over at Jibber Jabber UK.
Do you still have a bit of Easter chocolate lurking in the back of the cupboard? Corina at Searching for Spice did and she made these rather delicious looking chocolate chip and chia seed muffins with them!
Sarah of Tales from the Kitchen Shed says leftover roasted or boiled potatoes can be used to make her Easy Bombay Potatoes recipe – the best ever Indian spiced roasties, she says. I’ll definitely be making these soon!
Use up those extra egg whites with this decadent Strawberry & Basil Pavlova by Only Crumbs Remain. She uses the Swiss technique to make her meringue, a technique she says not to feel daunted by as it simply means the egg whites and sugar are whipped up whilst suspended over a bain marie.
Camilla has reinvented an old classic, adding a touch of elderflower to her home made lemon curd recipe. Visit her blog, Fab Food 4 All, to get the recipe for her elderflower and lemon curd.
Welsh vegetarian food blogger Shaheen over at Allotment 2 Kitchen makes this gorgeous Middle Eastern Sweet Potato Kibbeh – similar to a falafel that you can serve with pita bread. It makes plenty, so lots of leftovers for the next day!
Use up your over ripe bananas with this fantastic Double Chocolate Banana Bread recipe from Linzi over at Lancashire Food. Perfect with an afternoon cuppa!
Jane over at Onions and Paper gets creative with the odds and ends lurking in her fridge to make this comfort food dish of sausages with semi-dried tomatoes, potatoes and pesto. Pass us a plate please!
This Beef Lasagne with Sun-dried Tomatoes and Orkney Smoked Cheddar was inspired by half of a packet of sundried tomatoes lurking in the back of the cupboard, a box of lasagne sheets on its best before date and a packet of gorgeous smoked Orkney cheddar in the fridge. Proper comfort food, this, I assure you!
Camilla over at Fab Food 4 All used up some of her home made elderflower and lemon curd in these super summery little cupcakes! Aren’t they adorable! There’s a little puddle of fresh curd in the middle. Find the recipe for her elderflower and lemon curd cupcakes over on her blog.
Down under, Joanna at Green Gourmet Giraffe is the depths of winter, so she’s thrown a celebratory Christmas in July party complete with some Chocolate and Fruit Mince Flapjacks. Loving the idea of Christmas in July!
Kate, the Gluten Free Alchemist, wows with this Cherry-Chocolate Brownie Ice Cream made from cherries she harvested herself! Doesn’t this look amazing!
A great big huge thank you to everyone who linked up over the summer months. If you are feeling inspired and would like to share your own recipe which uses up ingredients that might otherwise ended up in the compost or landfill, do link up below! Worldwide entries accepted and encouraged! All entries are pinned to the No Waste Food Challenge Pinterest Board, Stumbled, Yummed, Tweeted and Flipped on Flipboard. I also comment on every single one of them and add them to a full round up the following month. You can find the full rules on the official No Waste Food Challenge page.
Kate - gluten free alchemist
What a fantastic round up. There are some amazing recipes here….. I love them all…. But I do have my eye on those custardy lollies….. and they look so beautiful too xxxx
Cecilia Keinapel
I think the no food waste challenge is very genius I have to say that all of these recipes looks like a perfect sunset. Woow! You have really big talent, I got very hungry looking at all the goodies!
Thank you for inspiring
Jayne @ Sticky Mud and Belly Laughs
Oh my days! Damn you diet! hehe.
What lovely dishes x
Jordanne | Thelifeofaglasgowgirl
I think the no waste food challenge sounds amazing. And these foods looks delicious. All the schools are back here too, I feel like the holidays flew in. My gran would love the easy bombay potatoes.
Jordanne || Thelifeofaglasgowgirl.co.uk
Lubka Henry
Such a yummy post full of mouth watering pictures! In general I shop in such a way that I very rarely wast any products, but it’s a great challenge!
Rachel
All of this just looks amazing, I love the look of the lasagna x
Ana
11:45 am and browsing and reading through your delicious dessert and I’m super starving. It’s so colourful and tasty to look at. I would love to try Strawberry, Banana & Custard lolis before summer ends!
Evelina
OMG! Everything on this post looks so delicious!
Fabulous challenge!
Newcastle Family Life
Those lollies look brilliant. I am always amazed at the things you can make with leftover food xx
Stella
This food challenge is a great idea. Bookmarking this for future reference.
Lyndsey O'Halloran
So many good ideas here. I’d love to make the tuiles and the love heart lollies!
mellissa williams
I would so make these recipes. Love the bombay potatoes especially and the lasagne
Toni | Gym Bunny Mummy
What a fab food challenge. I always try to plan our weekly meals around what we have in the fridge/pantry before I go shopping. Then I only buy the additional ingredients we need
Rhian Westbury
Can’t believe your kids are already back at school, that seems so early. Some great looking recipes, definitely going to try the bombay potatoes myself x
Christine Dodd
Those tuiles look amazing! Look forward to reading about Bergen as we went there a couple of years back and found it quite expensive.
MakeUp Fun
Nice challenge! You’ve done t pretty well. I like a lot all these recipes and we should be more careful wasting less as possible everyday.
Hannah
This is a really good challenge. I like the look of those ice lollies x
Nikki
Oh my goodness … all of these dishes look amazing! I shouldnt have read your post right before lunch! I want all of this instead of my boring pasta!
leeshastarr
I like the look of the strawberry, banana and custard lollies but I can’t eat banana, such a shame. Everything does look so yummy though.