The Thrifty Cookbook: 476 Ways to Eat Well With Leftovers (75 page)

Dead cut flowers

Vegetable peelings and any raw vegetables past their best

Wilting fruit and fruit skins – but be careful not to add great heaps of acid fruit, including apples

Used teabags, crushed eggshells, coffee grounds

Sawdust from recently living (or ‘green’) wood

Fallen leaves

Shredded or scrunched-up newspaper, egg boxes, cardboard, wood ash

Kitchen paper, so long as it is not greasy

Small amounts of natural fibre fabrics, and (unbleached) hair

The contents of your vacuum cleaner bag

Dry sawdust

Shredded office paper (not the shiny, coated kind)