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Over 130 delicious, simple, no-fuss recipes that celebrate your favourite veg!

most loved but also commonly wasted ingredients

 and recipes for how to cook with them from bread to tomatoes, leafy greens and bananas.

You Can Cook This! Max La Manna Cookbook

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Max La Manna

Max La Manna on Saturday Kitchen Live

Saturday Kitchen Live

Pizza

Loaded Nachos

Millionaire Squares

Food Network 'Crack an Egg with Max La Manna'

I grew up eating Mac & Cheese out of a cardboard box, those days are long gone.

How To Make Perfect Fluffy Pancakes

Mac & Cheese Recipe

Best Springtime Soup Recipe

Potatoes are currently the number one most wasted food in the UK.

4.4 million potatoes go to waste every single day. This waste doesn't just happen in households, it's right across the supply chain. In the UK alone 14% of all potatoes are thrown away every year before it they even leave the farmers gate.

So how can you help reduce this waste? Here's a recipe on how you can use up some potatoes that are starting to get a little soft.

Regeneration Food: Potatoes

420,000 tonnes of meals are thrown into the bin every year in the UK.

One of the main reasons why we waste meals is because we prepare, cook and serve way too much.

In this episode, Max highlights some of the most wasted foods and finds creative ways to use up what’s already in the fridge to save you money.

Regeneration Food: Meals

20 million slices of bread go to waste every day in the UK.

After WWll bread began to be commercially produced using the Chorleywood method, allowing for vast quantities to be produced at a fast pace. By 2009, 80% of the UK's bread was made using this process. However, on a daily basis, UK households waste 1100 tonnes of bread. That's the same in weight as 780 small cars every day or the weight of the Eiffel Tower every week.

So how can this waste of bread be reduced? Max shares his favourite tips to revive stale bread and how to make a quick and easy snack with just breadcrumbs.

Regeneration Food: Bread

Ever chopped up herbs and thrown the stalks away? What about broccoli stems? There are so many things we do in our kitchens that contribute to food waste when actually, a lot of them are totally edible.

This waste is widespread. For instance, 290,000 tonnes of milk are wastes every year in the UK. Each glass of that wasted milk took 300 litres of water to produce.

In this episode Max reveals the consequences of wasting food on our planet and the parts of ingredients that are often destined for landfill.

Regeneration Food: Waste

79,000 tonnes of lettuce and leafy salads are wasted each year in the UK.

What is the relationship between C02, lettuce and soil? In this episode Max dives deeper into the fifth most wasted food in the UK and gets a good look into our soils health.

As the final episode in the series, Max also prepares a flavoursome soup and a protein-rich burger all made from leftover ingredients highlighted in previous episodes that would otherwise have gone to waste.

Watch Max La Manna

Saturday Kitchen Live

Saturday Kitchen Live

Pizza

Loaded Nachos

Millionaire Squares

Food Network 'Crack an Egg with Max La Manna'

How To Make Perfect Fluffy Pancakes

Mac & Cheese Recipe

Best Springtime Soup Recipe

Regeneration Food: Potatoes

Regeneration Food: Meals

Regeneration Food: Bread

Regeneration Food: Waste

Regeneration Food: Salad