“Tip to Tail” Pickle Style Is the Zero Waste Trend You Gotta Try

(1) Eat all your pickles.

Then put the jar with leftover brine in the fridge. You’re not done yet.

(2) Use every last drop of brine.

Reuse the brine to make refrigerator pickles out of all kinds of veggies, such as pickled whole cherry tomatoes. You’ve already got the jar and the brine, after all. Make the most of it.

Leftover brine is also the perfect shortcut ingredient for dressings and marinades, and it can flavor to all sorts of tasty eats, from pasta salad to wings to roasted pumpkin seeds. You can even use the brine in creative cocktails-a dirty martini might be a no-brainer, but how about a pickle brine margarita?

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(3) Time to reuse that jar.

Directions at countryliving.com

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