I have always loved juicing, but I have never done it consistently until recently.
Juicing can be such an easy, healthy addition to your lifestyle! Fruits and vegetables processed through a juicer provide energy and nutrients that are streamlined to your body in averyeasy-to-assimilate form.
Are you new to juicing and interested in more information? I’ve gathered these articles for you:
>>>The Right (and Wrong) Way to Juice
The GAPS diet,which we are working through right now, calls for fresh carrot juice starting in Stage 4 and adding other fruits and vegetables later on as tolerated. We’ve touched on Stage 4 in the past few days.
Since we’ve ventured into stage 4, I was quickly reminded of a little something that likes to tag along withfresh juice:leftover juice pulp! It’s not long before you’re inundated with this pulp, and you’re left wondering, “What to do with leftover juice pulp?”
Well, if you’re anything like me, you love using everything that comes through your kitchen, and hate wasting anything valuable. Perish the thought of that leftover juice pulp going to waste! There are tons of things you can do with it. And in my kitchen, I work by the motto “Waste not, want not.” These 20 uses for leftover juice pulp will not leave you wanting.
If you find yourself wondering what to do with leftover pulp? Ask no more I have 20+ Ideas for what to do with leftover pulp.
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Can you eat the leftover pulp from juicing?
Yes! You can absolutely eat leftover juicing pulp. It’s still full of fibre, nutrients and flavor. We’ve got 20+ ideas on how to eat and use up your leftover pulp.
Are there any nutrients left in juice pulp?
Juice pulp contains up to half of the nutrients from your fruit and vegetables, as well as up to 95% of the fibre. Reusing your fruit and vegetable juice pulp is a great way to increase the fibre and nutrients in your diet, as well as a frugal way to use up every little bit of your fruits and vegetables.
Here are 20+ uses for leftover juice pulp
Bone Broth
If you’re in the habit of making your own homemade bone broth, simply toss your leftover pulp in with the broth. It will take a little extra straining when you’re finished, but it’s a great way to keep from having to toss it.
This is a great way to use up leftover vegetable pulp from juicing because it will add stacks of extra nutrients and vitamins to your soup!
BONE BROTH RECIPE:
- Save your leftover bones from a roast chicken
- Place in a slow cooker along with your vegetable pulp
Add salt, pepper, and a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar - Cover with water
- Allow to cook for 12 hours, checking the water level occasionally. If the water is evaporating, add some more to cover the ingredients.
- Allow to cool, strain or pick out the bones and enjoy!
This is a great recipe for using up leftover green juice pulp. If you haven’t used onion, celery, or garlic in your pulp, just add some in along with the bones at step 1.
Veggie Broth
Add to Eggs
Loaded scrambled eggs for breakfast? Yes please! You can turn your boring scrambled eggs or omlette into delicious, healthy and nutritious loaded eggs by adding some of your leftover vegetable pulp.
Cook off the vegetables a little first before adding your eggs to get them crispy, or add them into an omlette and let it cook together.
Meatballs and Burgers
Is your family a huge fan of burgers? Mine definitely is! I love making burgers with a bit of extra vegetables. It’s a great way to get some more minerals into their meals, alongside the salad in the burger, of course.
I do this by adding vegetable pulp to the meat mix. Generally about 50/50 meat to veg. This way the vegetables add extra flavor without overwhelming the dish – it’s still burgers after all! And the great thing is, you can do this with meatballs too. Just substitute half the meat for vegetable pulp.
Veggie Burgers
Is your family cutting down on meat or maybe you are vegetarian? You can use vegetable pulp to make veggie burgers!
Meat free Monday? simply use vegetable pulp instead of meat and continue the recipe as usual. You may need to increase or decrease the moisture of your mix but it will work. Don’t forget to add salt and pepper!
Gravy
After making a roast, I love using the leftover meat and juices in the pan to make homemade gravy. Did you know that you can add leftover veggie scraps?
The leftover juicing scraps help thicken the gravy. You can strain it a little afterwards to remove chunky bits if it bothers you, or whizz your gravy with an immersion blender. (Might help to blend with animmersion blenderbefore serving.)
Pasta Sauce
An easy way to get extra vegetables into your pasta sauce is by adding your leftover vegetable juice pulp to your sauce. This will add flavor and thicken the sauce.
Pet Food
Sprinkle vegetable and fruit pulp on top of your pet’s dinner for a healthy treat. Please be aware, certain foods are toxic to certain pets, so make sure it’s safe for your furry friend first!
Vegetable Crackers
A super simple way to make vegetable crackers is to use leftover juicer pulp.
Mix your pulp with enough water to make a workable dough, and spread it onto dehydrator sheets.
Leave it to dehydrate for 6 hours or until hardened and you will have delicious, homemade veggie crackers.
Smoothies
Add leftover veggie and fruit pulp to smoothies for extra fiber, nutrients and flavor. (Learn more abouthealthy smoothie add-ins)
Feel free to change out the base ingredients and you’ll find yourself a delicious recipe for fruit smoothies.
Halwa
One of the most unusual ways to use leftover pulp from carrots is to makeCarrot Halwa. This recipe from small footprint family uses carrot pulp, coconut milk and cardamom for a frugal and traditional indian dessert.
Fruit Leather
One of my favorite kid treats is fruit leather and fruit rollups. Making fruit leather with fruit juice scraps is ridiculously easy and frugal.
- 2 cups juice pulp
- 1 cup of water
- 1 tablespoon gelatin
DIRECTIONS:
- Use a food processor or immersion blender to mix all your ingredients well.
- Pour the mixture onto a dehydrator sheet
- Move the sheet around until the mixture covers the whole sheet evenly.
- Pop the sheet into the dehydrator on low for 6-8 hours.
Fruit and Vegetable Powder
I’m really into using fruit powders, and there is a simply way to make them using a dehydrator and leftover pulp. You simply dehydrate the pulp (here’s the dehydrator I use and love) and then blend to a powder to add to meals. I’ve got a detailed guide on how to make fruit powder here, and a recipe for green veggie powder too!
You may like:
- How to Make Green Veggie Powder
- How to Make Fruit Powder
Muffins
For a little extra fiber, sneak fruit and vegetable pulp into cakes,pancakes, quick breads,cookies, muffins, you get the idea!
There is no need to only use sweet fruit pulp – vegetables work great in both savory and sweet muffins. Think zucchini chocolate muffins or carrot cake.
These tasty Juicer Pulp Muffins from Greedy Gourmet are 100% dairy free and lactose free. And the best part is you can use any type of leftover juicer pulp to make them! Brilliant!
Cookies
Another great recipe for snacking and for kids is these healthy oat and juice pulp cookies. They come together quickly and you probably have all the ingredients on hand.
How to make cookies with leftover juice pulp
- 1 cups leftover juice pulp (sweet fruits work best for this one, think apple, pineapple, orange, carrot)
- 2 cups rolled oats
- 4 tablespoons coconut oil
- 2 tablespoons maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
Mix all of the ingredients together in a large bowl. Use your hands to scoop out a small handful and roll it into a loose, small ball. You may need to add a little coconut oil if the mix is too dry. Press the balls gently into a cookie shape on a baking tray. Cook for 20-30 minutes or until they are golden brown on top.
Porridge
Loaded porridge has been a bit of a craze this past year. You can add your leftover juice pulp to your oats while cooking. I recommend keeping the juice pulp to less than a quarter of the oat volume. So 1 cup of pulp to 3-4 cups of oats. Cook as normal until the oats are cooked through and allow to cool before eating.
Energy Balls
Need a quick daily pick me up? Use your leftover juice pulp to make these quick energy balls.
Simple blend your leftover pulp along with some rolled oats and a bit of honey or maple syrup.
Divide the mixture evenly and roll into balls. Dehydrate or put in oven on lowest temperature setting for healthy snacks.
Spreads & Dips
add to your favorite dressings, such as thisCreamy Dill Dressing. Or dips and spreads such as hummus and bean dip.
Save it for Later
Not ready to use your vegetable pulp today? Simply pop your leftover pulp into a freezer safe container and freeze for later. We love small freezer containers like icecube makers for freezing pulp.
Popsicles
Freeze fruit pulp with juice, milk or water intopopsicle moldsfor a cold treat that the kids will love.
Compost
If you still haven’t figured out what to do with leftover juice pulp, the simplest solution might be composting.
Are you composting yet? Having a compost heap (or even a bucket) is a great way to keep food scraps out of landfill, and it also provides you with amazing fertilizer for your plants.
Probably the easiest way to use up leftover juice pulp is to toss in into your compost heap orcompost bin.
Worms
Garden worms also love fruit and veggie pulp! They will eat it quickly, but be sure not to give them too much, as you don’t want the fruit pulp to rot before they eat it. Your worms will give you amazing worm juice for your garden after having this!
What are your favorite leftover juice pulp uses? Let me and the other readers know in the comments section. 🙂
And for those days when I am not able to juice,this is my favorite go-to for energy and detox.
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