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Cook More, Waste Less: Zero-Waste Recipes to Use Up Groceries, Tackle Food Scraps, and Transform Leftovers
An indispensable cookbook of delicious, flexible recipes, and easy, everyday solutions to reduce the amount of food waste you produce--for life.
THE STATS ON FOOD WASTE ARE STAGGERING: currently one-third of all the food produced in the world is thrown away. Going zero-waste with food isn't some-thing we'll reach overnight, nor is it a hard and fast rule; but it's something we should all be moving towards--to help the environment, and our own wallets too!
Cook More, Waste Less uses recipe icons to guide you, and shows you how, for example, to cook a hearty Pot Roast and turn the leftovers into a Savory Pie, and then use the bones to make a stock to freeze for when you next make soup. And, how to make a meal of Simple Roasted Vegetables, then whip up a frittata the next morning, and use any scraps for Stone Soup. If you've got some extra rice? Turn it into Fancy Fried Rice with other ingredients in your fridge, or Leftover Rice Pudding for dessert. Fruit going soft? Turn it into Any Way Marmalade, or use banana peels for This Bread is Bananas. Fresh herbs or greens wilting? Put them in a pesto! Christine also includes guides on how to mix and match any array of vegetables, meats, and plant-based proteins for flexible, fast recipe ideas like Pasta Night or Taco Tuesdays.
This definitive cookbook even looks beyond meals to other creative uses for extra foods, like making pet treats, beauty treatments, and home cleaning products, and it features advice from other experts--such as composting tips from Carson Arthur, and food waste solutions from Anna Olson, Bob Blumer, and Todd Perrin.
Cook More, Waste Less is a life-changing cookbook that gives you simple and actionable steps on what you'll cook next--and what you won't throw away.
THE STATS ON FOOD WASTE ARE STAGGERING: currently one-third of all the food produced in the world is thrown away. Going zero-waste with food isn't some-thing we'll reach overnight, nor is it a hard and fast rule; but it's something we should all be moving towards--to help the environment, and our own wallets too!
Cook More, Waste Less uses recipe icons to guide you, and shows you how, for example, to cook a hearty Pot Roast and turn the leftovers into a Savory Pie, and then use the bones to make a stock to freeze for when you next make soup. And, how to make a meal of Simple Roasted Vegetables, then whip up a frittata the next morning, and use any scraps for Stone Soup. If you've got some extra rice? Turn it into Fancy Fried Rice with other ingredients in your fridge, or Leftover Rice Pudding for dessert. Fruit going soft? Turn it into Any Way Marmalade, or use banana peels for This Bread is Bananas. Fresh herbs or greens wilting? Put them in a pesto! Christine also includes guides on how to mix and match any array of vegetables, meats, and plant-based proteins for flexible, fast recipe ideas like Pasta Night or Taco Tuesdays.
This definitive cookbook even looks beyond meals to other creative uses for extra foods, like making pet treats, beauty treatments, and home cleaning products, and it features advice from other experts--such as composting tips from Carson Arthur, and food waste solutions from Anna Olson, Bob Blumer, and Todd Perrin.
Cook More, Waste Less is a life-changing cookbook that gives you simple and actionable steps on what you'll cook next--and what you won't throw away.
272 pages, Paperback
Published September 7, 2021
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November 9, 2021
So I may be more cynical than my fellow reviewers re this book and concept. We live in a throw away/ convenience society and don't know how to use food to its best and all use anymore.
If you didn't have that someone in your life to show/teach you then, yes, this is a new concept for you. If you don't know how to repurpose your leftovers, then yes, this book is for you. If all you grocery shop for is the one dish you're making at the time and grocery shop everyday, that's a lot of time and money resources used. The convenience of meal kits now that are already prepped and single serve have not conditioned us on how to think about our ingredients and how to cook anymore.
The writing, recipes, photos, and book itself was good.
If you didn't have that someone in your life to show/teach you then, yes, this is a new concept for you. If you don't know how to repurpose your leftovers, then yes, this book is for you. If all you grocery shop for is the one dish you're making at the time and grocery shop everyday, that's a lot of time and money resources used. The convenience of meal kits now that are already prepped and single serve have not conditioned us on how to think about our ingredients and how to cook anymore.
The writing, recipes, photos, and book itself was good.
March 4, 2024
I’m going to need to purchase this one I think… I’m rewriting too many recipes and resources from it
October 27, 2021
An amazing resource for anyone who is concerned with the amount of food waste in the world!
Christine Tizzard has created a cookbook that addresses just this issue. Recipes to use up leftovers and avoid throwing out food. I have tried several recipes and they are all tasty and worth making again and again.
The tips and suggestions for purchasing, storing and using food are wonderful and well within the everyday cooks abilities to follow.
I borrowed this cook book from my local library, but I am thinking this is the one to purchase so I have it as a resource in my kitchen!
Christine Tizzard has created a cookbook that addresses just this issue. Recipes to use up leftovers and avoid throwing out food. I have tried several recipes and they are all tasty and worth making again and again.
The tips and suggestions for purchasing, storing and using food are wonderful and well within the everyday cooks abilities to follow.
I borrowed this cook book from my local library, but I am thinking this is the one to purchase so I have it as a resource in my kitchen!
November 17, 2021
First impressions:
Whoever copyedited this did a bad. job. No good. Get yourself another copyeditor, you publishing company. This destroyed much of the initial pleasure in reading this book.
The recipes are fun and interesting, and while many are not foods that we cook in my household, some are and I am looking forward to trying them out!
Whoever copyedited this did a bad. job. No good. Get yourself another copyeditor, you publishing company. This destroyed much of the initial pleasure in reading this book.
The recipes are fun and interesting, and while many are not foods that we cook in my household, some are and I am looking forward to trying them out!
November 24, 2022
If you are trying to change the way you cook to waste less food, this cookbook is an essential tool. The recipes I’ve tried so far have been crowd pleasers and easy to make. The Quinoa Meatballs recipe is a favorite and allows me to use up uneaten quinoa. Just brilliant! And I love the food storage glossary…such a useful guide.
December 7, 2025
Probably good to reference for substitutions and ideas, I got some thoughts but will have to find alternatives for things like banana peel recipes, never thought to use them in cooking and might do so, but not buying tamarind paste to make that happen
November 6, 2021
2.5 meh stars. Wasn't a fan of how this was laid out. Appreciated the idea, just not how it was executed. And the recipes were hit or miss (for me).
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