Food · Posted 1 minute ago Home Cooks Are Sharing Ways They Get Creative With Leftover Ingredients You Might Be Inclined To Throw Away "No one understands why I have a bag of these in my fridge until they try my homemade risotto." by Hannah Loewentheil BuzzFeed Staff Link Facebook Pinterest Twitter Mail There's no worse feeling than wasting perfectly good food. But with a few creative tips and tricks, it's possible to stretch leftover ingredients or give those food scraps in your kitchen a whole new life.
So redditor u/DAGuardian asked, "What are some of your 'leftover' ingredients that others throw away but you use?" Here's what they said, along with some members of the BuzzFeed Community (and I also added one of my very own ways to use leftovers). Hulu 1. "I collect the heels of loaves of bread and store them in an airtight container in the freezer.
With eight heels, I can make a large, killer bread pudding." Robynmac / Getty Images/iStockphoto — u/Haughty_n_Disdainful 2. "When you finish a jar of pickles , don't throw away the juice.
Pickle juice is a great marinade for chicken." Merc67 / Getty Images — u/Amockdfw89 3. "My family was shucking some peas, and we had a huge pile of pea pods left over.
I was initially going to compost them, but then it occurred to me that they may be edible. One Google search later, I found out you can make a paste with them, or you can even keep them in the pods to use for soup." — u/DAGuardian 4.
"I turn my leftover bits and bobs of v.
