Waste Not - Kitchen Edition Cream Cheese Vegetable Spread

 

Waste in the Kitchen is one of my favorite subjects. This is the start of a great way to cut that food bill. To also make sure that nothing is thrown away. 

The topic today, in this series is how I am going to make sure those bits of veggies don't take a detour into the garbage. There are so many ways to use vegetables before they become un-usable.

I plan on sharing all kinds of ideas in my blogs on how we at my home can deal with this issue. 

To me to throw away what you can do something with to make it as a no waste deal, throwing away is throwing away money.

The veggies this week were a few pieces of broccoli, cauliflower, a few sweet peppers, a quarter of green pepper, a quarter onion, and few baby carrots. So let's get busy and see what I have been up to. 

Cream Cheese Vegetable Spread

Stuff to Gather:

Gather up what ever vegetables that you have in the fridge. Carrots, onions, cauliflower, brocolli, etc

1 block of softened cream cheese

3 tablespoons of ranch dressing mix - to be honest here, you taste when you mix and make it how you like it.

The Putting it together 

1. Take all vegetables you prefer and put on a board and cut them into the tiniest pieces, I am sure a blender would have been even better, but I was super lazy. 

2. Make the cream cheese and ranch dressing. You could thin it down a bit with a little sour cream, a dash of milk. I just kept it like it was. 

At this point it is now a very nice cream cheese veggie spread. 

You can then use it how you would like.

*some ideas, bagels, pinwheels, a warm flatbread, in a sandwich.

Today I made some pinwheels. 

For experiment sake.

If I was only making it with the spread, I would have gotten 8 fajita size tortillas out of it.

But today I was little experimental

I made only 6 and saved the rest back to use with a can of salmon and made 2 large burritos size pinwheels for me to taste test. 

Today I made the veggie spread pinwheels on the fajita size tortillas

        1. spread the mixture onto the tortilla (thin so you can roll -get those edges)

    2. Roll up tight and wrap in foil and place back in the refrigerator. I think it makes them cut so much better. 

    3. Cut into small pieces 

                                                       veggie rolled one.

salmon - veggie 

I had one of each for my lunch today. They were very good and very filling. Just another quick idea also. It took very little time. The others are in the fridge for a quick grab and go. 

*as I thought more on these, I would guarantee to bet that they would very nice in the air fryer also. If you try this or that, drop me a comment and let me know. 

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 I will coming back hopefully every week to share a new thing we are doing at our house, to beat that dollar.

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