What to do with leftover vegetables: Leftover vegetable recipes

If you’re looking for ways to lead a more sustainable, eco-friendly life, it’s important to understand how to reduce waste, including food waste. Discover our simple guide to leftover veg ideas, which will provide you with easy recipes & tricks to prevent waste.

What parts of leftover vegetables can you actually use?

You may be surprised to discover that there’s actually very little that cannot be used when it comes to vegetable scraps. Here are a few examples of parts of vegetables that can still be used, to reduce food waste in your home:

• Vegetable leaves – this includes the leaves of carrots, vines, sweet potato, corn and more
• Broccoli and cauliflower stems – don’t just use the florets
• Squash seeds and flowers
• Pea pods
• Cucumber peelings

What to do with leftover vegetables: an easy guide to utilising vegetable scraps

You now know that you can use them, but do you know what to do with broccoli stems, pea pods and other vegetable scraps? Don’t worry – that’s where we come in! Here are our top 4 leftover veg ideas for your vegetable scraps:

1. Create a homemade stock or broth. Use potato skins, carrot peel, celery tops and more.
2. Grow your own veg seedlings. Keep the seeds, pits and cuttings of your vegetables.
3. Create natural fabric-dye. Use beetroot ends for red, red cabbage for blue and more.
4. Keep ants at bay. Cucumber peelings are a natural ant repellent.