Cover -- Title -- Dedication -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Making a Difference -- Food-waste warriors don't plot and fight. We pickle and freeze. -- Where Food Is Wasted, from Farm to French Fries -- What Contributes to Food Waste in Homes -- What It Takes to Produce Food -- Wasting Less Food Saves Resources and Money-and Might Even Save Lives -- No One's Perfect-Just Get Started on the Journey -- Part One: Strategies for Everyday Life -- Sage Shopping -- Tricks of the Grocery Trade -- Meal Planning -- Ten Key Elements of Meal Planning -- Shopping Guidelines -- Resisting Temptation -- Buying the Right Amount -- Keeping It Fresh -- Buying Frozen Foods -- Reducing Waste up the Chain -- Waste Diagnostics -- How to Do a Waste Audit -- A Note on the Reasons for Discarding Food -- Smarter Storage -- The Food Storage Mission -- Demystify Your Refrigerator -- Rely on Your Freezer -- 1. Prep -- 2. Pack -- 3. Thaw and Use -- For the Slightly Audacious: Canning, Pickling, and Drying -- Canning and Pickling -- Drying -- Root Cellars -- The Crafty Kitchen -- Set Your Kitchen Up Right -- Organize -- Kitchen Equipment -- Foods to Have on Hand -- Tenets of Mindful Cooking -- Make the Right Amount -- Salvaging Kitchen Crises -- Burned Food -- Oversalted Food -- Overcooked Food -- Bland Food -- Love Your Leftovers -- Keep It Safe -- Foods to Be Particularly Careful With -- Party Hard, Waste Lite -- Can I Eat It? -- Why Does Food Make People Sick? -- What Happens When Food Ages? -- Generally Harmless -- Better to Steer Clear -- The Surprising Truth About Expiration Dates -- Hey You: Be Careful! -- Getting Scrappy -- Food Scraps for Your Pets -- Foods to Avoid for Cats and Dogs -- On Raw Meat and Bones -- Have You Heard? Backyard Chickens Are All the Rage -- From Garbage to Garden -- Household Uses for Food Scraps -- Composting.

Backyard Composting -- Apartment Composting -- Community Composting -- Go Forth and Go For It -- Part Two: Recipes -- Chilaquiles -- Sour Milk Pancakes -- Free-for-All Frittata -- Anything Goes Soup -- Gazpacho -- Sautéed Lettuce -- Fried Rice -- Asian Pasta Salad -- Broccoli Stalk Salad -- Light Chicken Salad -- After-Party Crusted Chicken -- Shepherd's Pie -- Tacos Your Way -- Drunken Marinated Meat -- Banana Sorbet -- Buried Avocado Chocolate Mousse -- Sneaky Black Bean Brownies -- Herbed Butter -- Quick and Easy Refrigerator Pickles -- Infused Vodka -- Part Three: Directory -- Fruits -- Apples -- Avocados -- Bananas -- Berries (strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries) -- Citrus -- Figs -- Grapes -- Melons -- Pears -- Stone Fruits (apricots, peaches, nectarines, cherries, plums, Pluots, etc.) -- Tropical Fruits (pineapple, papaya, and mango) -- Sugar Syrup for Freezing Fruits -- Vegetables -- Artichokes -- Asparagus -- Beets -- Broccoli -- Brussels Sprouts -- Carrots -- Cauliflower -- Celery -- Corn on the Cob -- Cucumber -- Eggplant -- Garlic and Shallots -- Ginger -- Green Beans, Snap Peas, and Fresh Peas -- Green Onions (scallions) -- Greens, Hearty (kale, chard, beet greens, bok choy, collard greens, cabbage, etc.) -- Greens, Salad (lettuce, arugula, endive, radicchio, and spinach) -- Herbs, Basil -- Herbs Other Than Basil (rosemary, parsley, cilantro, dill, lavender, mint, sage, thyme, etc.) -- Mushrooms -- Onions -- Parsnips -- Peppers (red, green, or hot) -- Potatoes -- Radishes -- Squash, Summer (zucchini, pattypan, crookneck) -- Squash, Winter (pumpkin, acorn, butternut, Hubbard) -- Sweet Potatoes -- Tomatoes -- Turnips -- Meat, Poultry, and Seafood -- Bacon -- Canned Fish -- Canned Meat -- Deli Meats -- Fresh Fish -- Fresh Meat (poultry, pork, beef, lamb) -- Hot Dogs and Precooked Sausage -- Sausage (fresh and dry/cured.

see "Hot Dogs" for precooked) -- Shellfish -- Pantry Staples -- Bread -- Bread Crumbs -- Flour, White -- Flour, Whole Wheat -- Oats -- Pasta -- Quinoa -- Rice, Brown and Wild -- Rice, White -- Sugar, Brown -- Sugar, White -- Whole Grains (wheat berries, spelt, uncooked popcorn, millet, amaranth, buckwheat, barley, dried corn, teff) -- Dairy and Eggs -- Butter -- Cheese, Hard -- Cheese, Soft -- Cottage Cheese -- Eggs -- Egg Substitutes -- Milk -- Milk Substitutes (almond, soy, rice) -- Yogurt -- Beans, Nuts, and Vegetarian Proteins -- Beans, Canned or Cooked -- Beans, Dry -- Peanuts -- Seeds (pumpkin, flaxseed, sunflower) -- Tempeh -- Tofu -- Tree Nuts (almonds, walnuts, pecans, pine nuts, pistachios) -- Oils, Condiments, and Spices -- Coconut Milk (canned) -- Coffee -- Honey -- Maple Syrup -- Mayonnaise -- Nut Butters (peanut butter, almond butter) -- Oils (olive, sesame, vegetable, coconut) -- Spices, Dried and Ground -- Tea -- Foodborne Illness -- Pathogens -- Toxins -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author -- Chronicle Ebooks.