Make your food last.

Cooking in a way that makes your food last with minimal waste, saves you money and reduces what goes into the bin after. In the examples I will discuss below, nothing leaves our house ones we have finished cooking. That's right, no rubbish goes into the general waste bin and we get 3 meals out of it.

Catch and Cook.

Even if you aren't fortunate enough to go fishing and catch your fish, you can always buy it and do the same thing. We use 3 whole fish, I cut the heads off the 3 fish and improvise using a The Breaking Bread Cook Book recipe to BBQ the 3 fish. 2 whole fish is enough for a family of 4 (half a fish each) along with some homegrown vegetables or salad and some steamed silverbeet, you'll have an amazing dinner.  Flake the 3rd fish off the bone and put it aside for now, we will get back to that shortly.

Using the Heads.

Again with some improvising, use The Breaking Bread Cook Book fish soup recipe. Using the 3 heads and some vegetables from the garden or local farmers market you will easily make and fall in love with your 2nd dinner. It's a tasty and comforting soup that I have loved since I was a kid and my 4 and 2 year old love it as well now. At this point any scraps from the vegetables, fish scales, heads, guts and left overs can be fed to your chickens, they will LOVE IT! Or put it into your compost bin if you don't have chickens. We then bury the bones deep into our soil to feed the ground that grows our food.

The Final Dinner.

Your last dinner is fish balls, using the 3rd BBQ fish follow the recipe in the book. My Yiayia (grandma) made these for us all the time. Some kids grew up loving chicken nuggets, my cousins and I grew up on fish balls. This is beautiful with some fresh greens or even a brown rice salad.

Reduce and Reuse