3 stars
A nice intro with various tips for reducing food waste. This book covers quite a bit of ground in a short amount of time. Includes ideas on cooking with and regrowing from food scraps. Also includes some basic information on storage, meal planning, composting, and guidelines for judging freshness.
Note, this is more of a reducing-food-waste book than a zero-waste book. It goes a little bit into reusing items and utilizing reusables, but its more heavily focused on what to do with food scraps and leftovers.
There’s a wide range of tips from the easy to implement (veggie scrap chips, freeze bananas for smoothies) to the more involved (egg shell powder) to the downright odd (I draw the line at bananas in my guac).
Includes fairly simple base recipes (soup, smoothie, hummus, muffins, etc.) that can be adapted based on what ingredients you have on hand to use up.
The index in the back in broken down by food item (tomatoes, basil, etc.) for easy reference.
Overall, a nice little starting point in a visually-appealing package.