Elizabeth's Kitchen Diary
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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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
