I stumbled across this website today with 50 ways to never waste food again and it had some excellent ideas for how to use up food scraps in creative ways.
You can check it out here, but some of my favorite ones include:
2. Don't toss those trimmed ends from onions, carrots, celery, or peppers. Store them in your freezer, and once you have a good amount saved up, add them to a large pot with a few cups of water and make homemade vegetable broth. This is also a great use for cabbage cores and corn cobs.
13. Make smoothies with fruit before it goes bad. Berries, bananas, and melons are great candidates for this use-up idea.
18. Use up the fall bounty of apples by making applesauce or apple butter.
22. Turn old bread into homemade bread crumbs.
26. Add chopped bread to a soup. It will dissolve and thicken the soup.
27. Made too many pancakes for breakfast? Put them in the freezer, then toss in the toaster for a fast, tasty weekday breakfast. Ditto waffles.
36. If you've got a few chunks of different types of cheese sitting around after a party, make macaroni and cheese.
44. Dry herbs by hanging them by their stems in a cool, dry location. Once they're dry, remove them from the stems and store them in airtight containers.
45. Leftover coffee in the carafe? Freeze it in ice cube trays. Use the cubes for iced coffee or to cool down too-hot coffee without diluting it. You can do the same with leftover tea.
50. If you can't think of any way to use that food in the kitchen, compost it. Everything except for meat and dairy will work in a compost pile, and at least your extra food can be used for something useful. Such as growing more food!
Do you have any ideas on how to reduce food waste?
50 Ways to Never Waste Food Again (Colleen Vanderlinden)
http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/ways-avoid-waste-food.html
since I have a baby I puree a lot of my fruit and freeze it into icecube tray for her but you can use these pureed cubes for smoothies as well
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