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Scrappy Cooking is the second cookbook from Carleigh Bodrug, a social media creator, and it grows out of her popular Scrappy Cooking video series. It contains more than 150 whole-food, plant-based recipes designed to help readers save money, cut down on food waste and eat more healthfully by making the most of what is already in their fridge and pantry. The recipes are vegan, easy to follow, and almost entirely oil free.

The book teaches readers to turn scraps into meals. Radish tops become pesto, broccoli stems become summer rolls, and wilting greens are blended into smoothie cubes. The flexible Kitchen Raid Recipes show how to use up almost any vegetable, grain or bean on hand. A "Got This, Make That" index lets readers look up commonly wasted foods, such as stale bread, and find a good way to use them.

The recipes include The Whole Darn Squash (Pasta), Skillet Lasagna, One Pan Orzo Casserole, Vodka Penne With Broccolini, Whole Roasted Cauliflower with Roasted Red Pepper Sauce, Chickpea Pot Pie, Orange Peel Chickn', Loaded Tortilla Bowls, Sheet Pan Tacos with Carrot Top Chimichurri, Rebel "Ribs", Veggie Masala Burgers, Palak "Paneer", Vegan Meaty Hand Pies, We-Got-the-Beet Chips, Pickle-Mania Chips, Cornmeal Biscuits and Bang Bang Broccoli-cious Steaks. The book is as much about eating in a way that is kinder to the environment and to the household budget as it is about health.