Here's how you never need throw any food away ever again!

If you can, you should never throw away any food, if you can save it.

We aren't talking about putting food into council food caddies (though that's also an option). What we are talking about is the concept of Smidgin Cookery.

Basically, this involves keeping all leftover foods and keeping it in the fridge, the pantry or the freezer and using the leftover foods in combinations to make Smidgen Roasts, Smidgen Pies, Smidgen Soups and Smidgen Deserts.

For example perhaps you have frozen in freezer bags or packs: several slices of beef, turkey or ham, a cup of cooked rice, some peas, carrots, beans, etc? These will make an excellent base for a very tasty soup.

You could have several half-finished packets of flour in your pantry. You can combine these together and make a pie, either a savoury pie or a dessert pie, using whatever else you have in the pantry, fridge or freezer.

Also, if you have several fishfingers, a couple of frozen or chilled burgers (meat or meat free) some chicken nuggets, several sausages, some leftover roast potatoes, a handful or two of frozen vegetables, you can make a smidgen roast, cooked at about 200c for 30 to 40 minutes and served with rice, mashed potatoes and vegetables plus some gravy or sauce.

Smidgen cooking is a variation on scratch cooking.

The word Smidgen means "a small amount" so smidgen cooking means adding together small amounts of leftover food and re-combining them in new, interesting ways.

I'm off now to enjoy a slice of Smidgen Pie, made with several smidgens of different types of flour and some sliced apples!

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