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How to Conduct a Kitchen Waste Audit with Skrap

  • December 9, 2025
  • The Locavore Team
A short practical guide on how to empty, sort, and record your daily kitchen/home waste so you can realise patterns you may not have noticed before. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.
A simple, practical guide from Skrap serves as an introductory lesson on understanding kitchen waste and what it reveals about your everyday habits.
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Trash Talk and DIY Kitchen Hacks with SKRAP

  • December 9, 2025
  • Deepshika Pasupunuri
For our Local Food Club themed Love Your Leftovers in November, members gathered online for a workshop that unpacked the messy truth of kitchen waste, showing us how ridiculously simple it is to turn scraps, peels, and packaging into valuable resources.
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No Scraps Left Behind

  • October 9, 2025
  • The Locavore Team
"First attempt at making stock with scraps. Any tips from pros?"
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No Scraps Left Behind: Cooking Without Waste with Chef Arina Suchde

  • October 7, 2025
  • The Locavore Team
Arina Suchde is a chef, mixologist, and sustainable food innovator. Photo by Arina Suchde.
As part of our Local Food Club engagements, we had Chef Arina Suchde conduct a workshop on how scraps can spark delicious new beginnings—turning peels, pods, and stems into soups, teas, and syrups.
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Nothing For The Bin: Lessons from ‘The No-Waste Kitchen Cookbook’

  • October 1, 2025
  • Arina Suchde
Arina Suchde’s debut book, ‘The No-Waste Kitchen Cookbook,’ was published in 2023 by Harper Collins. Cover image courtesy of Harper Collins. Cover design by Ramnika Sehrawat. Illustrations by Sayan.
Bruised tomatoes, cauliflower stems, orange peels—what we dismiss, Arina Suchde wants you to begin redeeming. In this excerpt from The No-Waste Kitchen Cookbook, she makes a case for our everyday food scraps as the beginnings of a meal, not its discard.
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The Food Waste Pickle: Why India’s Food Waste Crisis is Graver Than You Think

  • March 5, 2025
  • Sharmila Vaidyanathan
Contrary to popular belief, household food waste is not the most significant contributor to wastage in the food system. Journalist Sharmila Vaidyanathan reveals how food is lost during every stage of its production and distribution, how preventable these losses are, and the gaps in the system.
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Eat With Better

  • June 6, 2022
  • The Locavore Team
Eat with Better is a plant-based packaged foods company headquartered in Mumbai which sells a ready-to-cook range of products made from raw, tender jackfruit.
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