Waste not want not by Sarah Burtscher

Waste Not Want Not by Sarah Burtscher is a cookbook built around the top 10 foods thrown out in New Zealand homes.

With 1.7 billion dollars of food wasted every year, the book gives everyday households 80 recipes and more than 40 tips and tricks for wasting less.

Sarah has lived on a fairly remote high country station, a four-hour round trip from a large supermarket, so she's used to making do with what's on hand. That's where her hacks for not throwing food out, her planning and her 'cleaning out the fridge' came into play.

As Sarah says, "With remote living you are totally responsible for all your own rubbish. The more I looked into it, the more I came to realise that the food waste statistics are shocking, some people just don't know how to utilise their grocery shop to the full. In Waste not want not there are (mostly) recipes to show you how older, forgotten food can be made into delicious home cooked meals. You don't need to be a good cook, you don't need fancy ingredients, you can just make do and cook on."

Hardback, 203 pages.