Katie Lee Quotes

One man's trash is another man's treasure, and the by-product from one food can be perfect for making another.

I simply believe food is too good to throw away - and Christmas leftovers can be a gastronomic opportunity for the well-skilled kitchen forager. With a little imagination, there are a million ways to use up leftovers rather than bin them.

What a marvelous resource soup is for the thrifty cook - it solves the ham-bone and lamb-bone problems, the everlasting Thanksgiving turkey, the extra vegetables.

Even clingfilm - if it's gone over a salad bowl, take it off, use it again. I wash out carrier bags; I save brown paper from parcels. I save string; I save ribbons. I separate all my bits and pieces.

Reducing and reusing take nothing more than a rethink on the way we shop, and using our imagination with the things that we might once have considered junk.

The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.

I'm a leftover junkie.

Finding exciting ways to use leftovers is what we all struggle with. There's one simple thing that you can do to transform them: Stock your pantry.

I always grew up watching things transform, and a lot of that was what we would call trash.

Freecycle groups match people who have things they want to get rid of with people who can use them.

I'm mad keen on recycling because I'm worried about the next generation and where all this waste we're producing is going. It has to stop. I wash out my plastic containers and recycle envelopes, everything I possibly can.

Not everything needs to be recycled.

Celery leaves are an underused ingredient, most likely because supermarkets sell mostly leafless stalks.

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.

Nobody likes to throw stuff away. It's just antithetical to our sense of being a person. But we're all habituated to that way of living today.

I take everything out of the fridge and see what we can make. We talk about what we could possibly create, and if there is something on the turn that we could save, we chop it up and put it in the freezer.

Restaurants should be forced to recycle their leftovers for animal consumption - and should create fewer leftovers in the first place.

There is no such thing as waste. It is just a question of whether we know how to use something or not.

There is no 'recycle too much.' That's an oxymoron.

I'd take garbage, and I'd glue them together and create inventions.

We need to throw away less, recycle a lot more and turn much of the rest into energy.

I'm a recycling obsessive.

Good cookery is not an extravagance but an economy, and many a tasty dish is made by our Continental friends out of materials which would be discarded indignantly by the poorest tramp in Whitechapel.

...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use everything up. It's what I think to myself sometimes, as there need nobody run short o' victuals if the land was made the most on, and there was never a morsel but what could find it's way to a mouth.

Let's reuse whatever we have now, stop making more of it, take what we gather, and make - whether it's car parts, computer cases, anything that we can use.