Here you will find all the information you need to reduce your food waste. Stay tuned for recipes, tips, advice and the adventures of Sol, our Food Waste Coordinator and other people trying to reduce their food waste and save money.
You can start by signing our pledge and saying NO to food waste!
This is part of our campaign to reduce food waste in Peebles funded by the Climate Challenge Fund.
We all know that Hummus is really good for you – well here is a super easy way of making it, which is great fun for kids, as we are making fun colours. It’s a great way of using up the end of a pot of yogurt which has been lurking in the fridge, not to mention that half lemon which has been kicking about for a few days. These are specifically child friendly recipes, which omits Tahini, as its not something I always have in the cupboard, and this hummus has a lighter feel to it…
Here are the recipes;
Each recipe makes enough Hummus for 2 kids and 2 adults for lunch.
Yellow Hummus
Pink Hummus (Beetroot Hummus)
Green Hummus (Broad Bean hummus)
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Pop everything into a food processor, and blitz –if it looks too stiff, just add a wee drop of water.
That’s it! For adults, do add some salt and pepper, but for kids, just a wee bit of black pepper is great.
You can always add extra things to your Yellow Hummus , a teaspoon (or more) of Sweet Chili sauce works well, chopped coriander, smoked paprika or cumin powder are nice…
If you do make this at home -please send any photographs of your hummus to our ‘Peebles Community Action Network’ Facebook Page as we’d love to see them.
I know how easy it is to open a pack of fish fillets, squeeze some lemon over and pop them under the grill – but by doing this, only using the fillets, the UK is throwing away tonnes of fish a year. Because we have become a nation, who mainly use fillets and not the whole fish, the fillets are cut off the fish, then the rest of the fish is simple thrown away. If we can buck the trend, and start buying more whole fish, we can help stop this huge amount of fishy food waste.
It can be quite daunting, to cook a whole fish, but its much tastier, and works out better for your pocket too. For example, a pack of Sea Bass fillets, usually sets you back about £4, where as you can often pick up a whole Sea Bass fish for £2, all you have to do it fillet it yourself.
Here is a great wee demo from YouTube, of how to fillet a fish. Once you’ve done this, you just use the fillets how you would used prepacked fillets, only now you can use the bones to make a wonderful fish stock.
If you fancy cooking the fish whole from the start – check out these amazing recipes from Food Network, there is something here to suit everyone’s taste bugs. Go on – give it a try…
We checking in on our wriggly friends at Kinsgland Primary School, who were looking very happy in their wormery home. They are currently helping us with our Zero Food Waste project, by eating up some of our food waste, and providing wonderful rich compost, for the school Gardening Club to use.
Wormaries are a really good way of making super strong compost, they are easy to maintain and relatively cheap to start up. Have a look at this, if you are interested in buying or making your own https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=726
I’m not one for watching that much telly, but the new series of Jamie and Jimmies Friday night feast is tackling the issues of food waste, last Friday was really really interesting, and made such a good point about food date labels.
Did you know, that ‘use by’ and ‘sell by’ dates are a guide only useful to the shop they are sold in, and are actually used for stock rotation, rather than how long the food has left before it goes off and that food past that date is often completely fine to eat? Its the ‘BEST BEFORE’ dates that you really have to stick to.
Here is a link to Jamie and Jimmies Friday night Feast, who explain it way better than me – from 4 on demand, if you missed it on Friday night, its well worth checking out…
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/jamie-and-jimmys-friday-night-feast/on-demand/59601-003
Happy New year from Peebles says NO to Food Waste! At the end of December, we said a big ‘well done’ to all out the Beavers and Scouts who completed their food waste diaries, and we pulled out 5 winning diaries from a bag, The winners were Fergus Weston, Finley Glasgow, Chris McDonold, Islay McNea, Finley Semple and Harrison Rice and we were delighted to meet some of the winners at out Christmas market…
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We, here at Peebles CAN want to say a huge ‘Thank You’ to all of the Scouts and Beavers who completed their Food Waste diaries. We will be studying them over the next few weeks and coming back to your groups with feedback. We will also be drawing the prizes this week from the returned diaries, and will be in touch with the winners shortly – Good Luck!
Week 2 of our workshops saw us making fresh pasta, both with and without a pasta machine. It was much easier than I thought, and super tasty too. Here are some photos, and recipes from last weeks Pizza Night too…
Pizza/ bread dough
375g strong white bread flour
1 sachet fast action dried yeast
1 teaspoon salt
250ml. warm water
Mix flour and salt in a big bowl.
Mix yeast and warm water in measuring jug, if water is too hot it will kill the yeast!
Add yeast and warm water to flour and salt mix.
Mix everything with your hands until combined, then stop and leave for 5 minutes.
Mix again and then turn out onto a clean work surface and knead.
Cover with a damp tea towel for 10 minutes.
If making pizza, divide dough in two and roll each half into a ball, leave each ball to rise for approx. 2 hours. This dough can then be rolled out for pizza. Cook at 200c in a fan oven or 220c non fan oven for approx. 10-12 minutes or until pizza is golden brown. Preheat the oven first!
If making bread rolls, divide dough into 6 small balls, leave each ball to rise for approx. 1hour 15 minutes and then place on a floured baking tray in the oven at the same temperature as pizzas for approx 12-15 minutes
Pizza sauce
1/4 carton of tomato passata or blended peeled plum tomatoes
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 dessert spoons olive/ vegetable oil
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
If so, before it goes to waste, you can dry loads of different types of fruit in a low oven, here how…
We cooked up a storm last night at the Bough Hall in Peebles, Big Chef Dave was leading the workshop where we made Pizza, Focaccia, Calzone and Ceasar Salad. It was super tasty food and we all learned how cheap and easy making pizza dough is. The toppings are a great way to use up any bits and bobs lurking in your fridge that might end up in the bin… Food-Waste-Tastic!
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