Feel bad throwing out old bread? Whole Foods is using it to make beer! #BXM8

Feel bad throwing out old bread? Whole Foods is using it to make beer! It sits in an unassuming white can dotted with yellow specs that mimic the bubbles brewing inside. Those in food recovery have long been puzzled by how to handle the massive quantity of bread. There is far more surplus bread available than food recovery programs are able to redistribute, explains acclaimed food waste activist and Toast brewmaster Tristram Stuart. By partnering with local bakeries and delis, he turned their surplus bread into breadcrumbs and crewed it with barley, hops, and yeast to make his ale, which hit his native London in 2016. Toast Ale manages to keep the valuable nutrients in bread - and all the corresponding labor, land, fuel, and water - in the human food supply, and we still send the spent grain to livestock farms. So the bread does ultimately get to animals, but we extend its life for one step further, Stuart explains. If you have some ingredients that are about to turn on you, consider coming up with your own recipe that allows you to combine them. Im also a big advocate of freezing every piece of vegetable that you dont cook - skins, tops, stems - and stockpiling them until you have enough to make an awesome vegetable stock. For Stuart, its all about getting back to nature.