Do you have leftover bread at home? DON’T THROW IT AWAY!!! You can use it as the base for delicious dishes. To help you, we present the recipe book Second Life for Bread, featuring 28 savory dishes and snacks, plus 6 sweet recipes.

Why bread?

Bread has been a staple food for thousands of years and is regularly consumed by most people. Unfortunately, it’s estimated that over a third of the bread and bakery products produced globally are wasted. This recipe book aims to tackle this issue. We’ve gathered mouth-watering recipes to give bread a second life and prevent it from ending up in the trash. Not only will these recipes show you how to use leftover bread in a tasty and nutritious way, but they’ll also benefit the environment and your wallet.

We hope the colorful variety of recipes will inspire both beginner and experienced cooks to save leftovers and transform stale bread into dishes like spicy bread pudding, crunchy croutons, or fragrant desserts. Use our  recipe book in your daily life, guiding you from recipe to recipe on the path to a waste-free lifestyle! Let’s harness the power of bread to create a more sustainable future for everyone!

Download the recipe book here

This book was created as part of the FoodRUs project, funded by the European Union. A model initiative in Slovakia was developed within the project to reduce bread waste. All project partners from 8 European countries contributed to the creation of the recipe book, resulting in a collection of internationally inspired recipes. The factsheet design was created by the Hungarian partner, the National Food Chain Safety Office (Nébih), in collaboration with the Without Leftovers program, working alongside the EWWR for dissemination in the 2024 edition.