This was a DNF for me. While the premise was interesting I couldn't get behind the offhand villainizing of certain foods as garbage while talking about food waste. And, as a librarian, I would have liked to see more sound academic research backing up her claims.

Humans throw away a huge amount of food. It has always bothered me. I hate finding moldy stuff in the fridge that is there purely because I forgot I had it. I'm just getting upset about vegetables. I can't image how much worse it is to be wasting lives when people are throwing away meat.

This bothered Teralyn Pilgrim too. She decided to try to cut down her food waste.  She decided to only throw things out if they were truly unsafe.  There wouldn't be any getting rid of food just because they didn't want it.  Leftovers would be eaten, repurposed, or better yet, not made in the first place.  This led to better meal planning which also saved money. 

So many of us complain about the high cost of groceries and our exorbitant grocery bill. We clip coupons and join Ibotta. Meanwhile, we're writhing in agony under the weight of our debts.

And then we throw our food away.
Doesn't make much sense, does it?

She recognized that she couldn't change the world by herself but she could change how she and her family lived.

No one can change all these problems that are so deeply rooted in our culture. I can't afford locally made clothes, even though I'd like to buy them. Perhaps instead, each of us can pick one issue we feel strongly about and attack it with everything we've got. The world can be changed by passionate individuals who tackle atrocities one at a time. I started out by eliminating my food waste. It was a good place to start. And even if I can't change how much food we waste, it feels good to look at this problem and say -honestly- that I had nothing to do with it.

She gives several tips for how to go about cutting down on wasting food beyond planning better. She ran swaps with friends where they brought in date items from the back of the pantry that they were never going to eat. Anything that didn't get claimed by another family was donated. That led to her discussing the ethics of donating food. Later in the book she also gets into dealing with food assistance and poverty based on her experience working with people in her Mormon ward. She had to face her biases to see areas where she thought she was helpful but wasn't where people actually needed help. It was a bit of a tangent for the book but was interesting.

She discusses composting and if it is really the best way to get rid of food scraps.  Are backyard chickens the answer?  What about a very hungry dog?  
There is a lot of food for thought in this book.  You'll end up planning a bit more before tossing any food.

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This was a wonderful book. It really motivated me to rethink the way I shop, cook and eat and gave me a lot of good ideas on how to cut down on food waste!

Pilgrim's friendly, encouraging, and frank tone made for an inspiring book that will motivate many to reconsider their own habits when it comes to food waste. No Scrap Left Behind is full of practical ideas, humorous true tales, and passionate pleas to help us all do better. Thanks to Net Galley and the publisher for the opportunity to read and give my honest review.

I thought this book was okay. It wasn’t what I was expecting and some of it felt kind of preachy but there were some decent tips in it. I liked how at the end there were some good apps, websites, documentaries, ect to look into. I do think this book could have been slimed down a little

An essential book to understand the impact of wasting food.
Food waste has always been one of my pet peeves. I always found there was something extremely disrespectful in wasting what people have spent time growing, cooking, and most importantly as a non-vegetarian, in wasting the life of an animal. I'm one of those people who believes in nose-to-tail, and go organic, grass-fed, open-air as much as my budget allows, because we should respect all lives.
I have also lived in many countries with a much healthier view of food than in America.
This book gave me statistics on the impact of food waste on the environment and world poverty that are truly horrifying, and show how much individuals could impact the world in enough numbers.
Many of the comments and advice in the book should be plain common sense, but education is lacking in most English-speaking countries on the issue and the impact truly is heart-wrenching.

This is not a feel-bad book, though, it's very much the opposite, it's about awareness, finding solutions and giving as many tools to everyone to correct course.

While I haven't got the same worldview as the writer - who does see a lot of what she does through a religious prism, what she attempts in this book is very admirable and I hope it will make a difference, because things very much need to change.

Lots of good information.
Thanks to author, publisher and Netgalley for the chance to read this book. While I got the book for free it had no bearing on the rating I gave it.

This book was great until the last 50 pages--when the writer began to talk about being mormon. While I have absolutely no objection to that, it felt like a swerve from the project of the narrative and hard to reconcile with the rest of the book.

This was a much more interesting ,and sometimes entertaining , book than I had expected it to be. The story of trying to do the right thing and the challenges that came with the experience. Full of great ideas and inspiration to go on your own zero waste journey. Although this is a journey we have been on ourselves for some time , it gave me encouragement and ideas on how to progress.