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The Use-It-Up Cookbook: A Guide for Minimizing Food Waste

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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.

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.

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.

Using up leftovers does no good if no one wants to eat them. Well The Use-It Up Cookbook provides many tasty recipes to help use up just about anything residing in your refrigerator, freezer or pantry. We particularly enjoy the baked potato casserole although there are so many tasty recipes to go wow about.

Granted the recipes could be considered old-fashioned by some, but that's just fine with me. I enjoy home-style cooking and recipes.

By-the-way I like this cookbook so much I bought an extra copy.

Highly recommend.

I must have a collection of a 1000 cookbooks but this one is on my SAVE shelf! I have used it many times and have given copies to my married children and friends. It's a very handy book when you're stumped for what to do with extra food or leftovers...a very good buy! The recipes are excellent, too!

The reviews of this were so good, I was expecting to get a terrific, fresh view of using leftovers...not so! This was not at all what I was expecting. There was not much in it that common sense wouldn't tell you. However, I DID like the introduction--but that doesn't warrant the cost of the book, I don't believe!

fyi--This is the book that Amy Dacycczyn recommends in The Tightwad Gazette, vol. I (pg 138). Some excellent ideas here, but I'm not familiar enough with the other books on leftovers to tell how this ranks compared to its competition.