Simple Recipes to Use Leftover Potatoes

This southern-style potato salad (The Simple Veganista) combines cooked baby potatoes and chopped celery, in a vegan mayo and mustard dressing.

Celery has been eaten for thousands of years. In Egyptian times, it was used for rheumatism and athletes. Most shops sell it in plastic wrap, so look in farm shops instead. Or if it comes in plastic wrap, just leave the plastic packaging at supermarket bag bins, and take home in your own produce bags.

Before cooking, read up on food safety for people and pets (many foods are unsafe near animal friends). Bin allium scraps (onion, leeks, garlic, shallots, chives) and citrus/tomato/rhubarb scraps, as acids could harm compost creatures. It’s okay to put them in food waste bins (made into biogas).

For tinned foods, fully remove lids (put inside) or pop ring-pulls back over holes (and pinch top opening closed) before recycling, to avoid wildlife getting trapped.