Rosanne Rust - Zero Waste Cooking For Dummies

9 Appendix: Metric Conversion Guide

10 Index

11 About the Author

12 Supplemental Images

13 Connect with Dummies

14 End User License Agreement

1 Chapter 7TABLE 7-1 Week 1 Meal PlanTABLE 7-2 Week 2 Meal PlanTABLE 7-3 Week 3 Meal PlanTABLE 7-4 Week 4 Meal Plan

1 Chapter 2FIGURE 2-1: Sources of U.S. GHG emissions by economic sector in 2019. FIGURE 2-2: Overview of GHG emissions in 2019. FIGURE 2-3: USDA Organic seal used to certify food produced organically.

2 Chapter 5FIGURE 5-1: Reusable storage options.

3 Chapter 8FIGURE 8-1: How to fold stuffed bread.

4 Chapter 13FIGURE 13-1: Trussing a chicken for roasting. FIGURE 13-2: Carving a whole chicken. FIGURE 13-3: How to fold foil packets. FIGURE 13-4: How to slice flank steak. FIGURE 13-5: Removing seedy pulp from zucchini.

5 Chapter 14FIGURE 14-1: A guide to popular pasta shapes.

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3 Copyright

4 Table of Contents

5 Begin Reading

6 Appendix: Metric Conversion Guide

7 Index

8 About the Author

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Up to 40 percent of the food produced doesn’t get eaten. This is a waste of not only food but also all the resources it took to produce, process, and deliver that food.

Food and food systems have deep cultural roots, playing a major role in our lifestyles, celebrations, and livelihoods. My experiences interviewing and counseling people about what and how they eat offers me important insights into their “whys,” too. In some cases, food is a comfort, part of an identity, or simply a basic need. In other cases, diet is a form of medical therapy — in that dietary change can improve a medical condition or help manage a disease. In addition, changes in food choices are now made with the environment in mind. But for any of that to work, the individual must accept, and sustain, the change.

My philosophy about food and eating habits is one of reason. For dietary changes to have any impact — whether on your body, your budget, or the environment — those changes must be reasonable and doable. Extreme measures are rarely sustainable. Zero waste cooking can save you money and may even improve your nutrient intake. It also has a positive impact on the environment, reducing the overall methane emissions that result from the food waste that goes from your kitchen to landfills. This book aims to help you reduce your food waste, no matter what you eat.

This book aims to help and encourage you to waste less food.

Many zero waste cooking books adopt the notion that to have a positive impact on the environment, you must focus almost entirely on eating more plants and removing animal products from the diet. This book doesn’t. The notion that everyone can (or wants to) adopt a vegetarian diet is simply unrealistic. Instead, this book encourages you to give more thought to what you eat, and what you throw away, while you begin to adopt a budget-friendly diet that balances your use of a variety of foods with less waste and less harm to the environment.

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.