From shopping like the French to reinventing leftovers, thrifty mum Teralyn Pilgrim shows how to cut store bills and stop food being wasted

When Teralyn Pilgrim can't decide whether something counts as food waste she sets herself the "hungry kid test".

Before tossing the offending grub into the bin, she asks, "would I feel comfortable throwing that food away with a hungry child watching?"

If the answer is yes - for example if it's banana or orange peel - it can go in the compost.

If the answer is no, then it's time to get creative and to reuse the food rather than throw it away.

It's just one of the ways that the author and mother-of-three from Oregon has transformed her kitchen into a zero-waste zone by eating, repurposing, pickling or freezing her leftovers and produce.

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