Besides slicing tomatoes for sandwiches, what can you do with all of those tomatoes? Here are 12 ideas for what to do with those extra tomatoes:

• Homemade tomato or pasta sauce.

• Tomato jam to top your biscuits or meats.

• Add tomatoes, especially grape or cherry tomatoes, to charcuterie boards.

• Use cherry or grape tomatoes as a garnish for drinks.

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• Pickled tomatoes.

• Salsas to top fish or pork or add to tacos/tortillas/quesadillas.

• Snack on cherry or grape tomatoes. Make skewers with a cube of cheese and cherry tomato.

• Dehydrate tomato slices (you can do this in a normal oven on a low heat).

• Gazpacho (cold tomato soup)

• Ketchup

• Thread cherry or grape tomatoes onto kebab sticks or put in grilling basket and grill along with other vegetables and your meat, chicken or fish.

• Hollow out larger tomatoes and use as a “bowl” for chicken, tuna, chickpea or quinoa/grain salad.

Leah McGrath, RDN, LDN

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