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19 recipes that will make you love your leftovers #GiveUpBinningFood

April 5, 2017 by Elizabeth Atia

In collaboration with Love Food Hate Waste. This week, why not get into the habit of making the most out of leftover ingredients, because waste not, want not, as they say! This blog post is the final instalment in our #GiveUpBinningFood series in collaboration with Love Food Hate Waste and it’s is all about re-purposing …

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GiveUpBinningFood Week 3

How to Make the Most out of your Fridge #GiveUpBinningFood

March 15, 2017 by Elizabeth Atia

In collaboration with Love Food Hate Waste. It’s already week three of the Love Food Hate Waste #GiveUpBinningFood campaign, where is the time going?! This six-week long food waste prevention campaign running throughout Lent is broken down into weekly themes to help make reducing food waste at home a more attainable goal.

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Tips For Weekly Meal Planning #GiveUpBinningFood

March 1, 2017 by Elizabeth Atia

In collaboration with Love Food Hate Waste. I have a confession to make: I have never meal planned before. Ever. In fact, I’ve previously scoffed at the idea because, well, I like to think I’m a bit too spontaneous for such organization and attention to detail. What if, three days after I’ve planned and shopped …

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Hasselback Potatoes with Chilli and Lime Butter by Veggie Desserts

The #NoWasteFoodChallenge Round Up & Feb Linky

February 2, 2017 by Elizabeth Atia

Helping to prevent food waste one delicious recipe at a time. Did you know that more than 10 million tonnes of food is thrown away in the UK every year, and half of that comes straight from our kitchens. Our kitchens – yours and mine. The No Waste Food Challenge was created five years ago …

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Christmas and Thanksgiving Dinner Leftovers

16 Ways to Jazz Up Your Christmas Dinner Leftovers

January 1, 2017 by Elizabeth Atia

Helping to prevent food waste one recipe at a time. Happy New Year! May I take this opportunity to wish all of my readers and fellow bloggers all the best for 2017. May it be the best year yet for you all! Now that the Christmas decorations have all been cleared, and the fridge looks …

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10 Delicious Autumn Recipes - the No Waste Food Challenge Round Up

10 Deliciously Autumnal Comfort Food Recipes

December 4, 2016 by Elizabeth Atia

The October/November 2016 No Waste Food Challenge Round Up. It’s hard to believe that next month the No Waste Food Challenge blogging linky will have been running for five full years! This round up features ten gorgeous Autumnal inspired recipes from all around the world. With thanks to everyone who has shared a recipe over …

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11 Autumnal Comfort Food Recipes - the No Waste Food Challenge Round Up for Aug/Sept 2016

11 Autumnal Comfort Food Recipes

October 7, 2016 by Elizabeth Atia

The August/September 2016 No Waste Food Challenge round up. Welcome to the latest No Waste Food Challenge round up! This month we’ve got eleven different Autumnal comfort food recipes for you from all around the UK and as far away as France, Australia and the USA! So, grab a cuppa and a seat and tuck …

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The No Waste Food Challenge - Summer 2016

The No Waste Food Challenge Summer Collection

August 24, 2016 by Elizabeth Atia

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 …

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Banana Blueberry Streusel Muffins

Banana Blueberry Streusel Muffins

July 27, 2016 by Elizabeth Atia

The wandering traveller has returned home, for the foreseeable future – or at least until the wanderlust strikes again! I’m home now from a week’s camping in Norway (It was heaven! A blog post will follow soon!) which followed our family trip to Brussels that was close on the heels of my epic two week …

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No Waste Food Challenge

No Waste Food Challenge

June 12, 2016 by Elizabeth Atia

The May 2016 No Waste Food Challenge Round Up. The No Waste Food Challenge is a monthly food blogging challenge designed to showcase how versatile and creative leftover foods can be. That last little bit of cream in the back of the fridge or those overly brown bananas in the fruit bowl don’t need to …

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No Waste Food Challenge

No Waste Food Challenge – Spring 2016

May 4, 2016 by Elizabeth Atia

Helping to prevent food waste one recipe at a time. An astonishing quantity of food is thrown out of our own kitchens every day in the UK. This doesn’t need to happen. With a little creativity even the most random of ingredients can be transformed into delicious, mouthwatering dishes. The No Waste Food Challenge was …

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No Waste Food Challenge

The No Waste Food Challenge – 16 Mouthwatering Recipes

March 9, 2016 by Elizabeth Atia

Helping to reduce food waste one recipe at a time. The No Waste Food Challenge is a food blogging linky inviting bloggers from around the world to share the recipes they have created using ingredients which may have otherwise ended up in the compost heap or landfill. Last month we had sixteen fantastic entries for …

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Cauliflower Leaf Miso Soba Soup and Miso Ginger Roasted Cauliflower by Veggie Desserts

16 No Waste Food Challenge Recipes

February 1, 2016 by Elizabeth Atia

Helping prevent food waste one recipe at a time. The No Waste Food Challenge is a food blogging challenge to get us sharing the recipes we’ve made with ingredients which might otherwise have ended up in the bin. Did you know that the UK throws away an astonishing 7 million tonnes of edible food every …

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Chocolate Hazelnut Layer Cake

Chocolate Hazelnut Layer Cake

October 17, 2015 by Elizabeth Atia

aka how to salvage a failed attempt at making chocolate hazelnut spread. I like experimenting in my kitchen, I really do. Sometimes (quite a lot of the time, if I am to be honest!) it doesn’t quite go according to plan. I had a notion to make some homemade chocolate hazelnut spread recently. Ok, if …

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Hungarian Plum Cake Recipe with Almonds

Hungarian Plum Cake Recipe

October 7, 2015 by Elizabeth Atia

This quick and easy Hungarian plum cake is a great way to showcase fresh, seasonal plums. It’s very nutty and delicious, perfect with an afternoon cuppa. Post updated 16 August 2018. “Mum, why it so windy?” It’s that time of year again. The gales have returned causing ferry transport disruptions. It’s getting dark early and …

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30 Recipes to Help Prevent Food Waste

September 13, 2015 by Elizabeth Atia

The August 2015 #NoWasteFoodChallenge Round Up! Did you know that more than 15 million tonnes of food is wasted in UK homes every year, most of which is still perfectly edible? In the No Waste Food Challenge food bloggers from around the world are asked to share their recipes where they help prevent food waste, …

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No Waste Food Challenge July 2015

No Waste Food Challenge – 20 Inspired Recipes to Help Reduce Food Waste

August 20, 2015 by Elizabeth Atia

Helping to reduce food waste one recipe at a time. The No Waste Food Challenge is a food blogging challenge designed to help us reduce food waste. It’s a place where food bloggers share the recipes they’ve made using bits and bobs which might otherwise have ended up in the bin. This month we have …

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No Waste Food Challenge June 2015

No Waste Food Challenge – the June 2015 Recipe Collection

July 18, 2015 by Elizabeth Atia

Reducing food waste one recipe at a time. Food waste – we all do it. We don’t want to do it, but sometimes it just happens. We succumb to those buy three for the price of two offers at the supermarket, eat one and end up throwing the other two away because they’ve gone off. …

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5 Kitchen Habits & 21 Recipes to Help Prevent Food Waste

June 17, 2015 by Elizabeth Atia

The May 2015 No Waste Food Challenge round up in collaboration with ao. Food waste is a big issue for today’s society. Millions of people are struggling to eat across the world while the UK wastes 7 million tonnes of food a year, and that is not something of which we should be proud. We …

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No Waste Food Challenge round up for April 2015

13 Ways to Help Prevent Food Waste

May 20, 2015 by Elizabeth Atia

Helping to prevent food waste one recipe at time. The No Waste Food Challenge is a monthly food blogging challenge designed to encourage us all to get a bit creative with leftovers, with the dregs of packets lurking in the back of the cupboard, with that last little bit of cream teetering in between consumable …

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