THE FOOD SAVER’S A-Z

ALEX ELLIOTT-HOWERY & JAIMEE EDWARDS, MURDOCH BOOKS, $55

You’d almost wish that this was pocket sized rather than a 500+ page doorstop, because it’d be just as handy to take shopping as in the kitchen. Whether you have half a lonely cucumber languishing in the vege drawer or spy a glut of them at the market, there’re ideas on how not to let them go to waste. And it’s not just vegetables – what do you do with the leftover Sunday roast? Those ends of cheese? As for that half cucumber – smash it into gin or salt it in a salad.