Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MARCH 18, 2011

We do do a pretty good job of recycling leftovers into new dishes. Chicken breasts into chicken salad or soup, and leftover vegetables into frittatas. Could be leftover stew vegetables, in their cruddy jellied sauce, or a limp head of romaine lettuce, or ancient sauces and condiments in the side door.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Recycled Can Cutlery Holder. This is an way of organizing your condiments, PLUS you’re using leftover egg crates! I like the idea of transforming items that I usually throw away into something useful. Plus, it helps reduce my waste , which is always a plus! Here are a ten crafts that I was definitely inspired by!

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JANUARY 16, 2013

For example, most leftover food scraps can even be composted ( other than meat, of course ) so they can be brought home if a school or workplace doesn’t do composting. It’s quite simple, really. Everything in that lunch bag can be washed and reused or at least an be dealt with in an environmentally-friendly manner.

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Lunch Lunches Reuse Compost 201

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

DECEMBER 11, 2011

By making your own lunch, you can cut this figure quite considerably, especially if you recycle leftovers from the night before so that you’re cutting down on food wastage. Even if you’re “only” paying a few dollars a day for lunch, this quickly adds up and can easily set you back hundreds of dollars per year.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JULY 12, 2011

So instead of menu planning, buying what we need and eating it, we are buying what we feel like, cooking too much and throwing away the rest instead of eating the leftovers. Learn to reduce, reuse recycle everything. Everything has another use is a saying often heard in regards to recycling. USA, UK, Australia etc.)

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Plan uses for your leftovers. 3 Ways To Save Money On The Kids’ Back To School Wardrobe How to Save Money by Greening your Wardrobe 8 Easy Ways to Reduce, Recycle, and Reuse Cutting Costs and Buying Used Clothes Repair, Don’t Replace. Make old t-shirts and dish cloths into rags to use when dusting or washing the car and etc.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Plastic containers from sliced lunch meat are great for leftover vegetable or casserole servings. 8 Easy Ways to Reduce, Recycle, and Reuse. Plastic one gallon ice cream tubs (we love ice cream) make great containers to carry food to picnics or gatherings. They fit nicely into ice chests and won’t break.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The first is to recycle leftover food, grass cuttings, and fallen leaves that might ordinarily end up in a landfill. Guest Post Author Bio: Bailey writes about insurance and other topics for the Homeowners Insurance Blog. Basically there are two reasons to compost.

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Family Balance Sheet

MARCH 23, 2011

Instead of using aluminum foil or plastic wrap to cover casseroles and leftovers, store the food in re-usable containers. Sometimes reaching for disposable paper products seems easier, but it doesn't take much more effort to use products that are re-usable or recycled. I have 4 different sizes. I don't microwave any plastic containers.

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Family Balance Sheet

JUNE 5, 2015

” I know that I can recycle the bags, but it seemed wasteful to me and I have to think about whether I’ll do the service again. Lunches and snacks included leftover tacos, ham and cheese sandwiches, apples, yogurt sticks, cheese sticks, tortilla chips & salsa. They used 22 plastic bags to bag 31 items.

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Budgeting Budget Tacos Friends And Family Sale 100

Family Balance Sheet

MAY 14, 2013

Usually there is enough leftovers for the last night to be a ‘clean out the fridge’ night. Thank goodness our rental has recycling containers. For dinner, we''ll plan to eat in on 5 nights and eat out 2 nights. Everyone will have at least one night to cook for the entire crowd and the other nights, we''ll collaborate on a meal.

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For the Mommas

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Use leftover cereal as ice cream toppings. Consider wrapping presents in recycled paper and let your kids decorate the outside! 10 Lucky Readers will win 9 full value Tony’s Coupons. Moms Weigh In On 9 Ways to Get MORE Everyday Value. 1. In the Kitchen: Get inventive in the kitchen to make dinnertime both delicious and fun.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

AUGUST 5, 2012

Zero-waste is a concept that the very idea of waste should be eliminated; instead, any and all products, resources, materials, and leftovers should be returned for further use in the same or in a different capacity. Glass or metal can last a lifetime should you wish to reuse either one and are better recycling material than plastic is.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MARCH 21, 2011

A better option to use is recyclable batteries. Recyclable batteries are much greener to produce and they can last for many years. Be sure to dispose of recyclable batteries properly. They may be great for portion control but they provide a whole lot more leftover trash than big bags. Plastic bags. Please share.

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