How to Use Stale Food

Don't throw out food just because it's stale. As long as it hasn't gone bad or moldy, you can use it in a variety of ways.

Instructions

1. Rip up stale bread into bite sized pieces. Use in bread pudding or stuffing recipes. Dry the pieces out and use them as croutons. You can also freeze the stale pieces of bread and keep them for later use.

2. Use stale sliced bread to make regular toast or French toast. Or toast the bread in the oven or in a frying pan with butter.

3. Crush stale crackers or chips with a rolling pin until they are fine crumbs. Use as a filler in burgers, meatballs or meatloaf. Crumble over vegetables with cheese and melt. Coat chicken with stale crackers and bread crumbs.

4. Use whole stale crackers for desserts like skor bars. Melt chocolate and brown sugar over top. Bake until done. Let cool and eat.

5. Combine different types of stale cereal for quick desserts. Add melted marshmallows or chocolate and eat as snacks. Use them in snack bar recipes.

6. Press stale cookies into a pie plate for quick pie crusts. Or crumble stale cookies on top of fruit or desserts.

7. Crumble stale candy bars into desserts like ice cream and cake. Or blend them in the blender with ice cream for smoothie treats.

Tips & Warnings

• Save your stale crackers and cookies in a container until you have enough to use.

• Don't use moldy food.

Resources

• Information about food use
• How to be thrifty
• Information on using stale chips and tortillas