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Featured: Minimizing Food Waste

There are many ways to contribute to a zero-waste community -- and a good place to start is your own kitchen! Check out these books and other resources about cooking with food scraps, food preservation, and limiting waste in your home. This list was made for Food Waste Action Week (March 17-21, 2025) in partnership with the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District.

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  • Hope Matters

    Why Changing the Way We Think Is Critical to Solving the Environmental Crisis

    Kelsey, Elin
    A sense of lost hope has become a barrier to managing our waste properly. This book provdes a much-needed, evidence-based argument for hope in a world living through planetary crisis.
    Book, 2020Vancouver : Greystone Books, [2020] — 363.738746 KEL
  • The Granite Ware 9-piece Canning Set includes everything you need to get started! The kit includes a 21.5-quart Water Bath Canner that holds seven 1-quart jars. Perfect for preserving fruits, pickles, relishes, jams, jellies, marmalades and salsa.
    Kit, LOT Canning Kit #1
  • Waste Not

    Recipes and Tips for Full-use Cooking From America's Best Chefs

    Book, 2018New York : Rizzoli, 2018. — 641.552 WAS
  • Perfectly Good Food

    a Totally Achievable Zero Waste Approach to Home Cooking

    Li, Margaret,
    Book, 2023New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2023] — 641.5 LI
  • Waste-free Kitchen Handbook

    a Guide to Eating Well and Saving Money by Wasting Less Food

    Gunders, Dana,
    Book, 2015San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 2015. — 641.552 GUN
  • Secrets of Great Second Meals

    Flexible Modern Recipes That Value Time and Limit Waste

    Dickerman, Sara, 1971-
    Book, 2019New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] — 641.552 DIC
  • Cooking Scrappy

    100 Recipes to Help You Stop Wasting Food, Save Money, and Love What You Eat

    Gamoran, Joel,
    Book, 2018New York, New York : Harper Wave, 2018. — 641.552 GAM
  • The Zero-waste Chef

    Plant-forward Recipes and Tips for a Sustainable Kitchen and Planet

    Bonneau, Anne Marie,
    Book, 2021[Toronto, Ontario] : Penguin Canada, 2021. — 641.5636 BON
  • Cooking With Scraps

    Turn Your Peels, Cores, Rinds, and Stems Into Delicious Meals

    Hard, Lindsay-Jean,
    Book, 2018New York : Workman Publishing, 2018. — 641.552 HAR
  • Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning

    Traditional Techniques Using Salt, Oil, Sugar, Alcohol, Vinegar, Drying, Cold Storage, and Lactic Fermentation

    Book, 2007White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub., [2007] — 641.4 PRE
  • Weck Small-batch Preserving

    Year-round Recipes for Canning, Fermenting, Pickling, and More

    Thurow, Stephanie,
    Book, 2018[New York, NY] : [Skyhorse Publishing], [2018]. — 641.42 THU
  • Foolproof Preserving

    a Guide to Small Batch Jams, Jellies, Pickles, Condiments, and More

    Book, 2016Brookline, MA : America's Test Kitchen, [2016] — 641.42 FOO
  • Mastering Fermentation

    75+ Homemade Recipes for Sustainable Living

    Sarasin, Keith,
    Book, 2023Nashville, Tennessee : Cider Mill Press Book Publishers, [2023] — 664.024 SAR