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Summary: A Necessary Buy
Review: 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.
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Summary: A Necessary Buy
Review: 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.
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Summary: A word from Lois Willand, Use-It-Up's author
Review: I'm responding to the review by Rhonda, who wanted fresh new ideas for leftovers. Rhonda is correct in the sense that my Use-It-Up works with leftovers from a basic standard approach. Many cooks, myself included, need this down-to-earth approach. What Rhonda calls "common sense" in using leftovers, is something not everyone has, so "Use-It-Up: A Guide for Minimizing Food Waste" provides a starting point for learning the basics of how to handle leftovers. Once you master the basics-quick, easy, and inexpensive ways of using leftovers- you can move on (if you care to) to the fancier, more labor-intensive and more expensive ways of using up your food. As for me, I prefer to get my leftovers to the table quickly, cheaply, and easily!!
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Summary: A word from Lois Willand, Use-It-Up's author
Review: I'm responding to the review by Rhonda, who wanted fresh new ideas for leftovers. Rhonda is correct in the sense that my Use-It-Up works with leftovers from a basic standard approach. Many cooks, myself included, need this down-to-earth approach. What Rhonda calls "common sense" in using leftovers, is something not everyone has, so "Use-It-Up: A Guide for Minimizing Food Waste" provides a starting point for learning the basics of how to handle leftovers. Once you master the basics-quick, easy, and inexpensive ways of using leftovers- you can move on (if you care to) to the fancier, more labor-intensive and more expensive ways of using up your food. As for me, I prefer to get my leftovers to the table quickly, cheaply, and easily!!
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Summary: A Must-Have For Frugal Cooks
Review: 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.
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Summary: Very disappointing!
Review: 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!
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