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The goal of this book isn’t to shame you into overhauling your diet, tell you what to eat, or make you feel guilty about your food choices. Rather, my goal in writing this book is to share some facts about how food waste impacts the environment and why reducing food waste is important, help you understand where your food comes from, provide information on food safety and nutrition, and ultimately help you get started with zero waste cooking.

Reducing food waste is a big challenge for the whole world, so this book is here to help you keep things in perspective. Practice and progress, not perfection, is the expectation.

When I wrote the recipes in this book, I used easy-to-find ingredients and also tried to provide recipes in which you can easily swap in similar ingredients you have on hand that you need to use up (or that you prefer). In most cases, a similar ingredient will result in just as tasty and successful of a dish — especially if it leads to you wasting less food. As you read the recipes, keep these conventions in mind: