The Use-It-Up Cookbook: A Guide for Minimizing Food Waste [Spiral-bound]

Lois Carlson Willand (Author)

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 190 pages
• Publisher: Practical Cookbooks; 2nd edition (1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0961455608
• ISBN-13: 978-0961455606
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,062,095 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must-Have For Frugal Cooks, November 17, 2000

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Rachel Paxton (Pasco, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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It's not often that you find a cookbook that is so incredibly useful that it will be one of the ones you turn to time and time again for inspiration when trying to creatively use up the last of your leftovers. The Use-It-Up Cookbook is a very informative guide to minimizing food waste. It is divided up according to food types--you just look up a certain food that you want to find something new to do with, and many helpful ideas are listed. There is also a comprehensive index in the back of the book. You can look up recipes by the recipe name or specific ingredient you are looking for. The book also includes guidelines on how to properly store foods and how to decide whether a food is still fresh enough to use again.

I don't know about you, but I've been looking for a cookbook like this for a long time, and I'm very thankful this wonderful one came into my life. I hope you will give it a try too--Lois sent it to me herself. She really knows her stuff and you could learn a lot from her too.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Necessary Buy, June 22, 2002

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sharply honed "sharply honed" (Brooklyn, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Use-It-Up Cookbook: A Guide for Minimizing Food Waste (Spiral-bound)

I NEVER knew what do with with those stray bits and pieces of leftovers or those vegetable scraps after the right amount for a recipe was used. This is a clear and easy book with both lists of ideas on how to use up something as well as recipes such as chili rice with peppers and gingerbread-pear cake. I first heard about it in "The Tightwad Gazette" and am very glad I bought it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good advice and save some money at teh grocery store, March 30, 2009

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Alexandra S. Evans "Queen Zan" (Wilmington NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Use-It-Up Cookbook: A Guide for Minimizing Food Waste (Spiral-bound)

We will all save money at the grocery store if we learn to use what we already have. Some great ideas that get your mind working in that way. I throw almost NOTHING away now. Always recycling the little things in the fridge into something else. The book "More with Less" is another good resource of this type.