A great way to throw a bunch of ingredients together into a pot and make it delicious Often, I find that my fresh ingredients end up going bad because I don’t find a use for them soon enough. One simple method to reduce your food waste and make some easy leftovers, is to make this Choose Your Own Adventure Soup, using any ingredients you have in the kitchen. Why Is This Recipe Worth it to You? Inspired by my passion for reducing food waste, this recipe is a method of emptying your kitchen of all the fresh ingredients which would otherwise go bad. The unique flavours each time you make this will keep the recipe fresh and different, allowing some flavours to stay constant while others are seasonal. How Does This Recipe Benefit the Environment? Food waste is an incredibly big deal, I will be blunt. Leaving your fresh ingredients to go bad in your pantry or refrigerator does have an impact. But why? Even though vegetables decompose and are regarded as environmentally friendly, a single head of cabbage can take up to 25 years to decompose in a landfill (“Wasted!” The Story of Food Waste), while producing harmful GHGs. By using your leftover ingredients to make this soup, you are lowering your environmental footprint, rather than throwing fresh food out. To learn more about food waste and how to improve your kitchen sustainability, visit my Learn page! What Ingredients To Use?Based on the name of this recipe, Choose Your Own Adventure Soup, you can probably guess that it’s not going to be the same every time. So how do you know what to use in order to make it taste good? Surely throwing leftovers into a pot with some broth doesn’t magically make soup. Well, that’s partially true. In the recipe below you will find a list of options you can use for the soup, along with standardized ingredients. This is a flexible recipe, so feel free to use the recipe as a loose guideline. Experiment! To Add Protein…Along with the ingredient guidelines in the recipe below, you might also want some protein. If you are vegetarian, my favourite thing is to stir in some white or pinto beans before simmering. Or, you can add in some roasted chicken afterwards as a topping. Utilise whatever you like, and as many or as little ingredients as you prefer. After all, this recipe is meant to be something anyone can make with what’s in their kitchen. So, enjoy my self declared sustainable recipe, and bon appetit. Choose Your Own Adventure Soup
Ingredients:
Your Choice: See what you have in the kitchen, and choose from the examples below (or not) to have a total of 4-5 cups starchy vegetables and about 4 cups non starchy vegetables for your soup.
Two of my favourite combinations of vegetables are...
Standardised Ingredients:
Instructions:
Some optional toppings / sides include parmesan, bread, or chopped nuts
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