Zero-Waste Recipes: Food Scraps Become Delicious Treats | Carleigh Bodrug
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 9 April 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Carleigh Bodrug is the queen of creating delicious recipes from foods scraps. She breathes new life into everything from wilted greens to coffee grounds. On this episode of The Exam Room Podcast she joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll to show you how!
Her cookbook, PlantYou: Scrappy Cooking contains more than 140 zero-waste recipes that are good for you, the planet, and your wallet.
On this episode
- Turning mushy berries into amazing desserts
- What to make with wilted greens
- Rehydrating stale bread
- Coffee grounds become a granola
- The world's easiest strawberry milk recipe
- How much money you can save by using scraps
- Environmental impact of scrappy cooking
- How much food is actually wasted
- And more!
Join Chuck and Carleigh in Seattle for the Planted Expo on April 20 and 21, 2024. Dr. Michael Greger, Robert Cheeke, Nimai Delgado, and more will be speaking! Use code EXAMROOM for 15% off tickets at https://bit.ly/PlantedSeattleTix24
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the exam room. To put this into perspective, food waste actually contributes more |
| 0:08.4 | emissions than the entire airline industry. So it's a really big problem for our planet, but not only that, |
| 0:15.5 | grocery prices have just skyrocketed in recent years. And if we're throwing out |
| 0:21.9 | up to 30% of our food as individuals, we're really missing the opportunity |
| 0:27.1 | to cut down some of that inflation on our grocery bills. |
| 0:30.6 | The number one wasted food is in fact stale bread and you've come up with a bunch of different recipes for that So what I love to do with it first of all you can make bread crumbs the other thing I love to do which I have in our breakfast chapter is called a |
| 0:44.0 | last week's loaf breakfast class roll and it's really a spin on a French toast |
| 0:48.0 | it rehydrates the bread into this beautiful breakfast recipe that has found new life. |
| 0:55.0 | Welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 1:07.0 | Hi I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll raising health IQs coast to coast and around the world. |
| 1:14.2 | Want to say hi to the exam roomies listening in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, |
| 1:18.5 | Anchorage, Alaska, and Durbin, South Africa. Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 1:27.0 | This is episode 32 of season 7, 531 overall and today is all about getting scrappy roomies we are |
| 1:38.7 | getting scrappy with Carly Bojrug and her new cookbook Scrappy Cooking, a cookbook that is filled with recipes that are good for your health, the health of the planet, and will keep some extra change in your pocket and a lot of it at that |
| 1:56.7 | because scrappy cooking is all about getting everything you can possibly |
| 2:01.4 | get out of your food. |
| 2:03.2 | It is when the scraps become the main event. |
| 2:06.6 | And Carly is here with us today to show us how. |
| 2:10.3 | Already she is a New York Times best-selling author and I have no doubt that |
| 2:14.8 | Scrappy cooking will get her on that mantle for a second time. And so today |
| 2:20.4 | is all about raising our health and kitchen IQs, and we're going to be getting |
| 2:25.2 | into just how much money her scrappy method can save, and the insane amount of food that the average |
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