Did you know that the majority of garden fruit goes to waste and millions of apples are thrown away everyday in the UK? Food waste is already a big issue in this country with households wasting 4.5m tonnes of food each year.
Here are just a few of the great ways you can use up your apples:
- Make some lovely sweet and savoury dishes with your apples (see recipes below)
- Toffee apples are very difficult to make so we just make a caramel sauce to dip apple slices into. It’s called ‘the silencer’ in our house as the dining table goes very quiet as people tuck in.
- If you have a juicer at home, apple, carrot (and ginger) juice is deee-licious. And keeps well in the freezer.
- If you are feeling ambitious you can try to make your own cider.
- Compost your unripe or damaged windfalls.
- Take your apples to My Apple Juice in Hungerford to be juiced, pasteurised and bottled with a bespoke label. If you have lots of juice, I recommend reducing some of it into syrup…
- Put boxes of apples on the street and invite neighbours to help themselves.
- Proper storage is crucial so your harvest doesn’t rot before you can use it.
- If you have wrinkly or damaged apples that you don’t fancy eating, the birds and insects in your garden will be glad of them. But wrinkly ones are still edible for you too.
Apple Recipes
Apple Crumble with Granola Topping
Slow Cooker Apple & Ginger Cake
Steamed Pudding with Apples and Mincemeat
Apple, Mincemeat & Marzipan Pie
Apple Butter (this recipe works with no added sugar)
