IKEA Canada's New Free Cookbook Has Recipes For Cooking With Food You'd Usually Throw Out

One person's trash is another person's chocolate cake!
Senior Writer

There's a new IKEA Canada cookbook that you can get for free online and it's all about cooking with food scraps that you would usually throw out.

The ScrapsBook has recipes from a bunch of North American chefs that use things like peels, stalks, bones and seeds as ingredients and it's meant to reduce food waste.

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This cookbook is available to everyone and you can download it for free online, on Apple Books and Google Play Books.

It has 50 recipes for breakfasts, mains, sides, soups, salads, snacks and desserts, like a no waste omelette, plantcakes, meatballs, corn husk smoked chicken, beet bit chips and a chocolate banana peel cake.

If you're going to be saving food scraps from going to waste, you might want to also save some money and you can do that by using IKEA hacks when you shop.

  • Senior Writer

    Lisa Belmonte (she/her) is a Senior Writer with Narcity Media. After graduating with a Bachelor of Journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), she joined the Narcity team. Lisa covers news and notices from across the country from a Canada-wide perspective. Her early coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic earned Narcity its first-ever national journalism award nomination.
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