{A post I wrote for Attune Foods}

In the world of food, it doesn’t get more basic or humble than bread.  You want to go even a notch further on the humbler spectrum – stale bread. Besides making bread crumbs or feeding the birds, there’s not a lot of roles for stale bread, and given that its likely the least expensive food you’ve bought that week, there is usually little grieving when it’s tossed into the trash.

I have an extreme aversion, however, to throwing out food – even stale bread.  I don’t know where it comes from – its not like I grew up during the Depression. I grew up in the age of Ziploc disposable baggies and single-use Tupperware containers, but I can’t throw food away.  I’ve gotten pretty creative with food re-usage; some of the ways I’ve extended food life include…

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