Turn Kitchen Scraps into MORE Food | Reduce Food Waste | Save Money
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- Here are 3 ways to take kitchen scraps that many people throw out and reuse them in the kitchen to make delicious meals. Get more out of your groceries with these frugal tips and save money. In this video I'm going to show you how I use my vegetable scraps and chicken bones to make chicken stock, how I save my bacon grease to use in cooking, and how I use a ham bone to make split pea soup!
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After watching three of your shows, I have determined that you are the Bob Ross of frugal cooking. PBS needs to give you a show.
Bob Ross was not a cook. He was an artist.
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@@tkuebler9561 , not at all. Bob Ross had a very soothing voice. This woman sounds like herself.
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My grandma lived with us and she would make "homemade soup" from all the left overs that were not enough for another meal. She kept a Tupperware bowl with a lid in the freezer and she would add a dab of mashed potatoes and a 1/2 cup of corn and piece of this meat and that meat, when the bowl was full she pulled it out of the freezer, put it in the pressure cooker, and added a big can of stewed tomatoes and seasoning. Adding a pan of cornbread on the side and it was always the best soup.
That sounds so delicious! Thank you for sharing!
We called it refrigerator soup and had it every Saturday!
My mother went through a time when she made soup from leftovers. Once she made the best soup ever with scraps but was never able to duplicate it, lol.
@@annettelemmer9649 unfortunately, the dishes you can't duplicate are always the best. I'm a professional "one-time only" cook.
@@devorahstree671 lol! So funny. Thanks for the laugh. At least you have some good dishes you've made. ☺️👍
I freeze my bacon grease in an ice cube tray. Each square holds about a tablespoon of grease. Once it's frozen I pop them out and store them in a separate container in the freezer. It's super easy to just grab a cube or two whenever I need some.
I love this idea
Definitely willbe trying that. I use mason jars for that and about anything else.
Great idea! I'm going to do that!
To do that.
Oh Wow😮 Good Idea. I'm going
Judgement free kitchen. Love the concept!!!
Cooking and eating is all about personal preference, trying new things, and sometimes making mistakes. It's also about a lotta love. No room for judgement in there 😀
Yep, sounds good to me.
When I peel russet potatoes, I reserve the peels, rinse them in water, pat them dry, place them in a bowl and toss them with a small amount of oil, place them on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet, lightly season them with salt and pepper, and bake them in a 400 degree oven for about 20 minutes. They taste like rustic potato chips.
That's such a good idea!
Yum!
Great idea!
@@inspireme92 I just made them again for lunch today - very tasty!
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I'm 68 years old so most of this is all old hat for me, but I'm so glad to see the younger generation becoming aware of these methods. Keep in mind, these are things that people a couple of generations back just did in the course of normal cooking and kitchen management. We didn't have store shelves full of flavored oils and fats, or pre-made bread crumbs, or pre-made soup stocks. You might have found canned chicken or beef broth, but not like today when people have gotten so used to so many processed and convenience foods.
If you don't currently manage your kitchen like this, give it a try! It will give you a wonderful sense of self sufficiency! On the lids, if you have regular canning jars (as opposed to the wide mouth shown here) lids from mayonaise, mustard, and peanut butter jars (as well as the shaker lids from parmesan cheese jars) will fill on the regular jars. I save those lids because I use canning jars a lot for just regular food storage and they are more convenient than the lid and ring combo.
Don't forget the yard! Any vegetable scraps you don't use in broth can be buried in the flower beds!
You need to teach High Schoolers these techniques, as a required class
Great idea!
I teach Family and Consumer Sciences at the High School. (Home Ec) One of my colleagues did this as a Covid demo when we were on lock down.
They used to. It was called Home Economics. We learned basic cooking, mending, finances, etc. They really should bring it back!
My sons school middle only offers Spanish or band as electives, when I was in school I did shop and home economics,
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My mother was a RN and my father an attorney. Wierd hours. On Thursday nights we would have Scratch Soup and cornbread. I use to call it cleaning out the fridge soup. It was so good especially during the winter months.
I'm 63 y/o and have kept bacon grease. I don't filter it but keep it in fridge as if kept out on counter it will go.
rancid. I also save kitchen scraps for making broth but at times will add veggie scraps to my compost pile. Love your frugal no waste kitchen.
Save your celery leaves! Instead of freezing them on the stalk, dry them, you get a fresh celery flavor in dishes. They taste way better than store bought. And they dry really nicely and fast.
Thanks for the tip! 💙
Do you make celery powder or just leave them as dried leaves?
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@@tenthousanddaysofgratitude...yes, I was going to ask that same thing, since there's no further explanation on the comment. I often wonder why people do that, .....don't give the whole explanation of the topic they are speaking about. Annoying.
@@tenthousanddaysofgratitude not the original comment but I dry them and pound them with a tablespoon or two of salt in a mortar and pound it until the leaves are powder. It keeps fresher longer that way.
I am in my seventies, I do not filter the bacon grease, those pieces that were in the strainer, is good eating, I make a rue gravy, which is a brown gravy, that I use on rice as a cheap dish breakfast or a brown gravy to go on hamburger patties with saute'd onions and bell peppers or mushrooms.....and potatoes peelings fried to lightly browned with salt for snacks...I pick all the chicken pieces off the bones and make a chicken and rice.....or a chicken salad or add to a homemade cornbread dressing......and just boil those bones for about three hours....with about two quarts of water.....add a little salt and pepper.....later you can add a little butter in with it or oil in the stock...put up in the freezer.....the peelings off of carrots, can be added with mashed potatoes, egg and onion, and blended together to make potatoe cakes....or some call it potatoe patties.....can be eaten for breakfast or with dinner....which we southern's call supper....those onion peelings can be dried and ground up to make onion powder....the thing is think outside the box.....try things together, you never know you may make a dish that you like, and sometimes there are times you mess up in the kitchen....don't worry we all make mistakes....we just know better hopefully to not make that same mistake again....take care everyone, and be as safe as you all can be....
Good ideas!!
What wonderful ideas. Thank you!
You are the grandparent we all need
My mom doesn't strain the bacon grease either. I didn't even know that was a thing 🤔 she does refrigerate it though. So now I'm gonna have to Google to see if it's a hazard. It's mostly used to add flavor to refried beans in our house. We gave away our instant pot and now I'm a little sad🥺
I'm 47 and I do same as my grandparents on both sides did. Always had a large bacon grease can on the stove. Never moved from there. Used it for everything.
Awesome video.
one tip for the stock is to add about a tablespoon or 2 of vinegar in the mix. not only does it add to the flavor but it helps draw out more nutrients from the bones.
Gonna try that. Thanks
Good for the belly , too.
I use the instant pot in my Semi truck to cook meals fast and easy.😋
Great idea! Better than eating truck stop food all the time im sure. I got 2 hating truck stop meals when I was on road with my dad and my ex
.....very smart. ....and I'm sure it's quite a bit healthier as well. Good for you! 🙂👏🏻👏🏻
Growing up on a farm, it's like you said - pour it out of the skillet into a cup, or whatever was nearby and that was that. Folks nowadays would have a coronary watching how I grew up. LOL
In Austria there's something called "Verhackertes" which is basically cold, solidified grease from a pork roast mixed with a few bacon bits and spread onto bread. Then eaten as is, almost like how the French spread butter thickly on a baguette. It's the most delicious thing in the world.
Ham hocks or a ham bone are essential for making lentil and pea soups :) . Your scraps are what pro chefs have always used for making stock. There is so much flavor in things like celery leaves, and potato skins, onion skins etc.
🤔 I've made lentil soup & split pea soup for 60+ yrs and never used ham hocks etc. Can't say I ever even considered it but then I have been vegetarian for my entire 75 yrs.😎
@@kateburk2168 The flavor is amazing using ham hocks. But for people like you, who choose to be vegetarian, it obviously wouldn't be your choice.
@@kateburk2168 Wow! 75 years vegetarian, what an accomplishment! If you ever had a really good bowl of lentil soup with some ham in it... 😋😋😋
It's good that you don't know how the other side lives! 😂
A woman I know adds it to just about any green veggie. Best damn green beans I've ever had.
I have always saved my bacon grease and I don't strain it like some people do. It adds such great flavor to so many things. I also leave mine out on the counter in a covered jar.
Me too.
Me too although I have my moms metal Greese container with a lid.
Same here in my grandparents bacon grease can
Yes! Lol
@@katherineskaggs6739 I got a new metal
Grease can mine wore out was an old
Coffee can lol but I also leave mine out - however I like her style on everything she really can stretch a buck for a young girl! Amazing
My son, who is a trained chef, saves all of the veggie peels and scraps in a gallon bag in the freezer. He also adds the wilting parts of our cilantro plant, or the older leaves of the basil plant, any herb that is getting past its prime. When we have 3 bags full, it's broth making time! We then can it in the pressure canner so that it can be pulled right off of the shelf and used the rest of the year. We make chicken broth with the bones that are left from rotisserie chickens. I'm always amazed at how much chicken is able to be pulled off of a rotisserie chicken even when you think there isn't enough left for a meal. We can that meat and broth too. Its super frugal!! Love your videos!
I've been throwing our kitchen scraps in the soil outside to make enough compost to grow fruits and veggies.
That's also a good way to recycle them.
But, I'm going to start saving them until I can make a large amount of stock to freeze then go back to putting them in the compost heap.
I save my vegetable scraps, ham bones, and bits of veggies for soup later or for dry beans. Some of the best soups are the ones that have no real recipes, just flavors deliciously mixed together.
I agree! And I think the more we get comfortable not using recipes and getting creative, the better chefs we become! Thanks for watching 💙
Ooo yes, be the best beans with that ham bone, then having the bits of cooked ham mixed in.
Great video! My “save the scraps” tip is using carrot tops (the fronds) to make pesto. Use a milder nut or seed than pine nuts (I use sunflower seeds) and make just like regular pesto. I freeze it so it lasts longer and doesn’t discolor.
My other tip: when you buy green onions just for the green parts, stick the white bulbs (with roots) in a small jar or cup, upright, with just enough water to cover the bottom of the bulb. In a few days you’ll have more green onion tops! Change the water every other day and you can grow them for weeks.
You can also use the green leaves off of celery. They add extra flavor
One of the benefits of using a ham bone - or any bone(s) - in a stock is to cook out the marrow from inside the bone, so you need to expose the inside. You can use a hacksaw to cut the bone in pieces. This will add a richness and a wallop of nutrition to your stock or soup. Or you can ask your butcher or the guys behind the meat counter to cut up the bone for you.
Even though I already know of & use the tips you share, I find that I enjoy your presentation so much that I'm still watching anyway. You have a wonderfully inclusive vibe that is endearing & infinitely watchable. I look forward to more videos from you in the future!
Something my grandmother did, was to save the liquid from draining canned vegetables and fruits, whether home-canned or store bought. The veggie liquid made it into soups and gravies, while the fruit liquids went on cakes, pancakes, ice cream, etc. I have blended them into cream cheese for a flavored spread.
that's so smart!
One of my pet peeves is seeing my food not eaten and having to throw it out because it is not good any more. Wasting food is not okay with me at all. It is expensive and when others do not value your money or time and throw it out it makes me mad.
Same! When I see food going in the trash I'm really seeing money going into the trash!
I agree, i also dont like when people talk about food that is yucky or disgusting or eww, and i always think - you just never know... If it's not spoiled, food is food, you have to respect it
I hate it seeing it wasted because someone out there is hungry and had nothing to eat.
Truth
Absolutely! I'm trying to teach my grandchildren not only how to cook but about the importance of NOT wasting anything! My parents were of the depression era and they were quite frugal. I learned a lot from them.
This October, my husband and I will have been married 25 years. We were watching this and he said that it looked delicious and that split pea soup was his favorite soup of all time. #TheMoreYouKnow, #FirstTimeHearingThis. Guess I know what to make in October!
this message is so cute!!
It's October now so you can make it!
I freeze all my vegetable scraps and once I have a large freezer bag full, I put them in a large pot, fill with water, boil for 20 mins. Then strain and I freeze the broth in ice cube trays that I have designated for the broth. Put the frozen cubes in the large freezer bag….. so good for soups and gravy
Where did you ever learn to cook! I am 66 years old and I have so much to learn from. I really enjoy learning frugal ways of doing things. For me it is not only important but entertaining as well. You have so much to offer. Keep it up please.
If I peel potatoes, I save the peels and fry them up in a pan with a little oil for crispy bits to snack on. Another frugal tip is to save the chunks of chicken fat when you buy chicken and render it down (like bacon grease) for "Schmaltz". It can be used like butter on food, for pan frying, or adding to recipes.
I just shared this same thing on my Facebook page! I keep my veggies in a ziploc bag. Great minds think alike!
Yes! Great minds! 💙
I would recommend a paper bag, used a ziplock bag in the past,but it does freeze in a solid block that way and makes it hard to portione the scraps.
Every potato that gets peeled in my house ( I'm a french fry fan ) shows up later as "hash browns" on my husband's breakfast plates. Apple peels go into his weekday morning oat meal bowls. I had some nasty Keto white bread ( that tasted like library paste made into a loaf ) and that's got covered in raw eggs and baked in the oven volia french toast good to go in my freezer. I grew up Po, not poor and I cannot waste food. I learned that when I was younger and I still do that now. When we were saving up for our house we went back to poor living for 4 years. It was almost fun and it made us humble and grateful it's like a game to me. I go to other people's houses and I see tidbits in their fridge ( getting a drink ) and I know they are probably not going to use them up. When I have big things cooked up, I go ahead and freeze half so we don't get sick of it that week and it's so handy to grab it down later.
I grew up with a big coffee can of bacon grease under the kitchen sink, Mom almost always used this instead of other oil or shortening, our food tasted very good as a result. bacon grease and a cast iron pan can make a meal go next level flavor in a hurry.
Wow, I thought I was a thrifty cook but when I think of all the carrot and onion "ends" I throw away. You've made me rethink things. Split pea soup is the best!
Really helpful tips and recipes. So few people make use of chicken carcasses and meat bones these days, preferring to buy over processed stock cubes. Getting something delicious from ‘free’ food makes my day!
Wooow!! I've never noticed how much flavorful stuff I tossed in the trash everyday!!!... Like the 🧅! I am definitely doing this from now on. Thank you so much for sharing 😊🐱😊
Yes, definitely try it out! Thanks for watching 💙
My niece bought me a book called, “Cooking With Scraps.” It has some great recipes in it!
Wrong bowl 😂😂😂 I cannot count how many times I have done that and then felt confused like wait what bowl was I using for what again?? Hahaha
I'm definitely subscribing. Love this and how you talk with your audience. So genuine and heartfelt.
All dried beans, legumes, and peas should be sorted through then rinsed several times before cooking- you dont want your family eating clumps of dirt or worse- chip a tooth on a rock. Other than that- this is something every family should do, 'trash' to treasure broths are the most satisfying and tasty broths your family can make and so versatile. I am so glad you are putting these tried and true videos out for future generations- these are lessons we learned from grandparents that survived the Great Depression era and they are true survivalist and proven methods for getting the most for your money. I am a huge fan Lisa Dawn! I love your content!
My sister in law when she makes beans sorts them first,etc. like you mentioned. She saves the hambone and adds them to beans .And she also saves the bacon fat.My mother did the same. Grandma who was german would make grieben schmaltz, which is bacon grease cooked with onion. My dad would spread it on bread and eat it.She also would use chicken feet which grandpa a butcher would bring home.She would scrub them,etc, and put them in water with celery,etc and make chicken or klatchen soup with them.She'd take out the feet and chew on them. By the way, the chinese eat duck feet. She also used rendered chicken fat or rendered goose fat when making certain german cookies at Christmas time.
I think you make amazing content! I’m addicted to your videos. I appreciate you doing the budget videos for everyone that is struggling specially through COVID and all the jobs that were lost!! You are amazing!!
I do everything you did in this video, but with my own twist. I make my stock in the pressure cooker (or Instant Pot) for one hour. The bones are soft enough to go down the disposal. I also put my stock in the fridge to cool so I can remove the solid layer of fat off the top. It's also great for cooking! After Thanksgiving I do turkey bones for at least 90 minutes. In the past I would freeze the stock into blocks using plastic tubs. Once frozen I'd remove the blocks, scrape the sharp edges and then foodsaver the blocks and put them back into the freezer.
Now I can the stock in a Presto 23 qt pressure canner which I also use as a pressure cooker to make stock from five or six chickens all at once. Canned stock keeps for years without refrigeration... which makes me feel better after having lost a freezer full of food once.
Also, I bought a small bacon grease strainer/storage pot at Walmart that I keep in the fridge. I skip the second straining step. The bacon crumbs sink to the bottom anyway. I'm just sharing, not saying what you do is wrong in any way. (Don't let my name here fool you... It's a long story. lol) I have a lot of respect for people who squeeze everything out of their food dollar.
Whip the liquid drained from chickpeas (aquafaba), add a bit of vanilla and/or sweetener, and you have practically free whipped topping. Aquafaba also works as an egg replacer in baking. It's pretty magical, and can be used in lots of ways.
I just froze some to see if it works as well after freezing. Have you tried that?
Oh wow, I always drained and rinsed my chick peas...I always thought the liquid was gross...I love hummus so I'll try out your suggestion. Thank you
Those bacon bits in the grease taste great when you use them in pinto beans for even to fry chicken.
I love saving the bits u cut off the end of veggies to make broth! onion ends, asparagus ends, things like that.... just save them up, add miso paste, nutritional yeast, and spices, and I've got a flavorful broth that's better than whatever I could've bought
I love your videos. I am a guy who really like to cook. Me too, hate food going to waste. I like the advise to people for getting help if they need. You look a really nice person
Greetings from new jersey.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrlllll, I do all of this and I LOVE IT! Good for you! Have you ever made banana bread with the peels? You have to try it!
No I haven't, I'm definitely going to look into that!
Intriguing! How exactly would that work? Do you purée the peels?
Okay, that was amazing! No waste at all. It makes me ashamed when I realize how much I throw away.
Thats a great idea to put all the scrap pieces in a bowl in the freezer until you want to make stock. Thanks for sharing and have a great day.
I use a gallon ziploc bag for veggie scraps in the freezer and keep a bag of bones of any kind. I just use whatever bones I am not fussed about it being chicken only. When the gallon bag gets full I make broth with however many bones I have :) I save bacon grease. It's great for potatoes, green beans, eggs, beans and savory pie crusts.
Lisa, I love your channel, I was raised by depression area Grandmothers and your cooking style is what I was raised on. We used the bacon grease (from a crock in the cabinet) for chocolate chip cookies. What a flavor add! Try it some time. Also any oatmeal leftover from breakfast was fried in the bacon grease for lunch with maybe an egg or slice of cheese. Keep the videos coming:)
In addition to using for bits of stock, there are so many veggies where folks underutilize edible parts-like stems of broccoli, carrot tops (e.g. pesto etc.), beet tops are delicious pan fried in garlic and olive oil, cauliflower stems are also great stir fried.
Truth!
I always save my bacon grease ..all 43 years of my married life ! That’s liquid gold in my opinion.. I use it in all my beans .. if I boil cabbage or squash .. so many ways you can use left over bacon grease so I never throw mine away ..and I always have some on hand ! I encourage everyone that hasn’t saved and used it in their dishes to try it just one time .. trust me you’ll save it from then on! Liquid gold is the way to go !! I love to be frugal because I feel like we are blessed to have all that we have so being frugal is a way to be Thankful for all that the Lord has Blessed us with! Blessings 💕
Finally someone showing how we actually save and use scraps! Love it. Some of the best tasting food comes from these parts. Also glad to see you using cast iron. One other tip is that we buy carrots (or those from our garden) with the tops intact. Carrot tops are very flavorful and can be used saved for stock or dried and used as an herb. Keep up the great videos!
When I was a kid, my mom used to save the bacon grease with all the brown bits. After it solidified, we used it to spread on a slice of good quality bread and sprinkle some brown sugar on it. Very yummy!
When we were growing up, my Mom saved bacon grease. Sat in the kitchen near the stove. She used it in everything. This was back in the late 50s and 60s.
Here in N.C. Were I live we give bacon jars for housewarming gifts. New here love the videos 🥰
Loved this! I hate when we trash food that spoiled.
Whenever I have to toss food, I see $$$ going straight in the trash, so I try really hard to get the most that I can out of my groceries 👍
I've recently found your channel and am working my way through your videos after work. Your advice and techniques are awesome and so helpful. Thank you for your time put into sharing all of this! ✌️
I do it exactly like you do except add potatoes and a bay leaf to make a really hearty soup. Add Artisan Bread and it's delicious.
I also add egg shells to add additional calcium. Add a splash of vinegar to help draw the calcium from the bones. Thumbs up Lisa!
You are wise beyond your years, Lisa Dawn. Wonderful tips, as always.
(I hate waste too.) 👌
The soup looks delicious & so quick to cook in the Instantpot! 😋
My grandma called that soup stone soup. My mom still makes it. I personally am not a big fan of the flavor but it’s very nutritious and cheap. I like how you add scrap veggies. Never thought of that.
My parent's always saved bacon grease and now I use the same container by the side of the stove. I never refrigerate because it's what they did so why not? It's great when you don't have time to cook bacon. You're terrific and happy I've found your channel. 😁
Bacon grease is good for making gravy to have over biscuits for breakfast. Yummy.
I have just discovered your channel. I love it! You are wise beyond your years. Very informative.
Love that you are wasting food. I remove the stems from mushrooms slice them then freeze. I add to soups casseroles & fritattas in the mornings. I also take off crusts when doing my afternoon teas. I crumble them to make breadcrumbs. Plus, I mad the crusts into bread pudding it was delicious
My husband likes a lot of onion as well. They are very healthy, so no problem! :) Thank you for sharing all of the valuable information that you do. God bless!
I just found your channel and impressed with your cooking skills. I do the same thing with my vegetables scraps to make broth, and save bones. My grown children know when they have a steak or ham with a bone to save it in their freezer for me. I save my bacon grease in the frig and reuse it for frying. Good tip about the coffee filter to keep the grease clear. I will try it next time I fry bacon.
Mix all leftovers and odds and ends and pile into a hollowed out onion bake in oven 180 until tender top with grated cheese and place back in oven until cheese melts 🐨🐨🐨🐨cheers from Aussie Onion bombs are good
Grinding corn cobs provide base for a fabulous corn soup. Split pea soup looks delicious
Maple molasses cookies made with bacon grease rather than shortening is one of my all time favorite fall cookies! Highly recommend, especially as a sandwich with cream cheese frosting.
The plastic lids from the Aldi mayonnaise jar also fits Ball jars perfectly. I was thinking about buying the ones in your video, but then I found that very serendipitously 😊
And here I was happy to find out the lids from Parmesan cheese fit, lol! *Heads to the recycling bin*
@@ladywytch129 Oh nice! I might have one or two of those as well.
Watching this, I suddenly remembered my grandmother used to make gingersnaps with bacon grease. Now I have to try that!
Small suggestion here ..wash all dry beans/peas. Remove any stones or bad beans. They will have dirt in them sometimes and your beans will be gritty.🙂
You can also use ham bones and make ham and beans and sliced potatoes with side of corn bread. It's so good my mother learned from my grandmother and I learned from mother z God rest their souls
Bacon bit pieces when added to salad dressings, or to sauces add a different dimension and taste to foods. Rendering bacon grease, forming into lard cakes can be used when camping, with baking use 1/2 or to taste. Great for campers as it lasts years n mason jars, freezer safe even after 2 years. Gives good food fat when used in moderation and artisan breads crave it. Coffee can provides volume and better storage as can be put or stored in cold rooms and used as needed, Add to suets for birds.
We had meat on Sundays, Monday - Thursday we had beans and potatoes with a vegetable. Anything leftover was put in the freezer in a bowl on Friday night we had what mom called Texas goulash. All leftovers and ground meat & Macaroni and spices, I loved her goulash. GOD BLESS
Here in Belize🇧🇿 we do a coconut white rice, split peas and pig tail with fry plantains dish. The pigtail is cooked in the split peas 😃
excellent affordable cooking. my grandmother made split pea soup a lot and i still do it today. i have a ham bone in the freezer and plan to cook some soon.
The left over bigger chunks from the bacon is great to add into fried rice, stir fry vegerables, corn bread and even home made biscuits.
Bone broths are how my bff finally started losing weight. I'd cook rice in it and she felt full with one portion of food which she struggled with since she always felt hungry. Very little calories, no sugar, just pure nutrition. She grew up with parents who were into toxic diet culture. Protein shakes, fad diets, that kind of thing. They'd go from one weight loss trend to the next. I started cooking like this because of my arthritis, but it ended up helping a lot with everything. Because of arthritis, asthma and family history of heart disease I can't get fat. I would die or at the very least suffer a lot. She struggled with her weight loss journey since her parents never instilled actually healthy habits. This both saved money and helps me keep my weight where I want it without having to spend any extra money. No downsides.
Thank you for these wonderful ways to reduce waste and save. Most grateful 😁
My mom makes the best split pea soup…basically the same recipe. She also adds a bay leaf.😊. Yours looks yummy.❤️
Bay leaves are great!
Girl I planted a huge garden this year! Would you consider a video on storage of fresh veggies and herbs if you have any??? I love the no waste attitude and you have brilliant ideas I would never think of!
Do you mean how to preserve? Herbs: dried works or you can pesto them or you can chop and freeze in ice cube trays with a bit of water. Veggies - depends on what but you can preserve with canning, freezing and dehydrating and some veg will keep as is in cold storage. Loads of videos on food preservation on RUclips. Good luck! I bought a freezer this year because I had such a great crop
Yup, I will be using my bacon grease as a sub for butter in some extra-large burrito dough tonight.
I bet that turned out so delicious!! 💙
Same. I save all the veg scraps and meat bones in a bread bag in the freezer, and instant pot it like you. I put it on soup mode. Strain out the solids and put on the mulch pile. I pressure can the stock for later use. Save the bacon grease also. I leave the bits in for flavor.
I learned some of this from my mom who learned from her mother in law. Very smart and frugal cooking, makes the best food!! Great idea for scrap bowl, I actuly thought I'd put the good veggies in the bowl right before you did :)
I also do that with my potato peels and my kids live it!
I actually saw one of these type videos where the gal took the veggie scraps from when she made stock and she blended it up into a veggie puree and ate it! Said it was tasty after she seasoned it.
For Keto that’s a great way to make bone broth minus the potatoes. Plus they use bacon grease to fry veggies, eggs, meats. Adds so much flavor.
I do this too for my broth. I made hot wings tonight. I threw all the wing tips in my scrap bag, veggies from salad making in too. It's just free food. I love bacon fat to use it in beans and potatoes. Such good tips. Sometimes I feel cheap doing it but I have a bog family to feed and it all adds up PS.....
I only filter through the strainer. That's it, store in fridge though too
Just subscribed. Really like all of your low cost and no food waste videos. Please keep them coming. Take care.
I'm so glad you enjoyed! Thanks for watching 💙
Hey Lisa I also make stock from my veggie scraps and I am a die hard country girl and I save bacon grease and use it for seasoning and frying my eggs with.
Your content is awesome. I share it among friends all the time. I do a lot of this same stuff, but rarely make videos. It allows me to share my habits through your content with them!
Awesome video! Pea soup is a fabulous meal and pretty inexpensive for the amount of protein it contains. I love your no waste cooking and I try to do the same. Thanks for the great ideas!
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I keep all of my veggie scraps in the freezer too, in a large freezer bag.. and since I’m only cooking for myself and my super picky hubs 😅 , when I buy fresh veggies, the first thing I do when I get home is to get them washed, dried, and cut up into small pieces for their particular freezer bags.. grab and go as needed
We always saved the last little bit of veggies in a bag of frozen vegetables, little pieces of meat that were left over from a meal, all the little leftovers that were too small for a serving and put them in the freezer for soup or stew. The more different things you have to toss into the pot the more delicious it is. Reminds me of stone soup from the old story!
Iv had my pot cooker like yours for 2 years. I did not no the handle set on the side . Thank you so much for showing that I never have room to sit the lid down.
It’s so true how we waste so much food these days. I always save my bacon grease .. I use it in so many ways for putting into my beans I cook through out the week which imparts so much flavor . I use bacon grease for making delicious gravy. When I fry meat like chicken I save the oil to reuse when cooking more meat up at a later date. I’ve never had mine to go bad as I use it all the time if you don’t use it often you need to refrigerate it.
Remember those "stove sets" from the dime stores back in the day? A set of metal salt and pepper shakers and a lidded can with built in strainer for "Grease".
I still have the one I bought there back in 1980 when I set up housekeeping.
I save plastic mayo jars to store homemade stock in freezer. Even mason jars get brittle and break easy in freezer.
And plastic peanut butter jar lids fit on regular mouth mason jars.
Really enjoy your videos. Loved: Oops wrong pan because I always “accidentally “ mix up shells, skins or pits. Love your ideas and will definitely try keeping my scraps to make broth. 😋🧅🥕🫑🍲