"Steve B" wrote

> Can you give some examples of the use of left overs or things less prissy
> people will keep instead of tossing. Using once brewed coffee grounds has
> been mentioned. Twice cooked potatos don't qualify.

Sure Steve. Some of these are just for 'family use' where it makes sense
but not for guests who might get upset.

Save usable peelings and vegetable ends to make stock of. These are fresh
bits, just the parts normally discarded. Add carrot bits, onion ends and
skins, leek roots, spinach stems, and such to the chicken bone carcass and
simmer as normal then strain. Sure you can use carrot middle parts but
there's noting wrong with the ends of a fresh carrot frozen up in baggies
until you have enough.

or use in-family, Don often makes too many ribs. The uneaten ones, get
recycled to the crockpot.

We are currently recyling lots of an 11lb ham into different things. Thin
slivers of it were topped with horseradish and flipped over onto hot green
fried tomatoes for lunch. The flour from the green fried tomato dip, is
saved to coat catfish tonight then egg and milk will be mixed with it to fry
'hush puppies' along side the fish.