A slice of inspiration for your Christmas dinner leftovers

Cold turkey sandwiches, dry vegetable stew and tasteless Bubble and Squeak – the prospect of using the remnants of Christmas dinner in such predictable ways can provoke shudders and disapproving groans in everyone.  It did us anyway!  Year on year, bowlfuls of leftover food are either thrown away or turned into unappetising meals that go untouched. This not only adds to the high amount of food waste that occurs each year but also ups the seasonal expense and standard Christmas overspend that we all experience.

We are therefore declaring that this year can be different. Oh yes, we propose that you can keep food waste and overspend at a low by using up Christmas leftovers in a fun and innovative way – by making Christmas pizza of course!

Here's one our head chef, Sergei, made from other leftovers

You may turn your nose up at the idea but think about it – it’s not rare to see Christmas dinner leftovers stuffed between two slices of bread or added to a curry. If I remember rightly, this is the sort of food that used to be the basis of our Boxing Day lunch after all. But with so many more exciting Christmas food items around nowadays, people get bored of the leftovers and throw them away. We’ve therefore thought of a more ecological and economical way to enjoy the leftovers – why not bundle them on top of a pizza? The joy of pizza is that it’s a personal preference – you can opt for the toppings of your choice. You can now do the same with your favourite Christmas items. Rather than waste the food, you can use your leftover slices of turkey and sausage or the unfinished broccoli and salmon to create a homemade pizza of your choice.

Courtesy of piyato / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

What’s more (yes, of course there is more!) you can use What On Earth’s Organic Pizza Bases and Organic Pizza Sauce, to make the process even easier. These products are available from a variety of outlets across the UK, including Whole Foods Market and online organic retailer, Abel & Cole.

So there you go then.  You know exactly what to do with all those leftovers now don't you?  If you do go ahead and make the Christmas leftover pizza (something we think you should do) please let us know how you got on.  We'd love to see some photos too.  Send them to laura@whatonearth.co.uk or even upload them on our Facebook page:
 
Peace, love and Christmas leftovers pizza.
 
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