Uses for Tomato Skins/Seeds from Food Processing?

When I process my tomatoes for sauce, I put them through a series of plates on my food mill to remove the skins and seeds from my final product.

Usually, I will chuck this material into my compost and call it a day but maybe I am missing out on something?

Any ideas for better use of this material?

Thank you in advance.

I don't mill that stuff out of my tomatoes, I just leave it in the sauce and eat it -- so I don't have any firsthand suggestions, but it popped into my head that you could put it on a dehydrator rack and make crackers out of that waste.

After dehydrating the skins/seeds grind them into a powder to add flavor to other foods.

Just to post the obvious... feed them to your chickens!

Sure, using them for Human food may be a higher calling, but the happy chickens lay happy eggs!

While we own a mill to separate the seeds, it has been decades since we have used it. When canning tomatoes skins and seeds go into the jars.  We couldn’t figure out why we were not using all the tomato that we could….and working so hard at it. That said,if I was to peal the tomatoes, I like Anne’s idea to dehydrate and turn to powder.

For the last few years, I've been fermenting off all the tomato guts and saving the seed.  In the spring, I make up little seed packets and give them to the local food bank.  I do between 150-300, depending on the year, and they all end up going to either the food aid recipients or the volunteers.  They usually get over 200 families for every hand-out, so even if only 1% of the people who get seeds plant them, that's still two households that are one very tiny step closer to food security.