As part of HuffPosts Reclaim project, HuffPost Taste will focus the entire month of July on simple ways you can reduce food waste in your own home.

There are many clever ways to stop wasting so much food in your kitchen. You can freeze leftover wine to make wine slushies. You can regrow certain vegetables with nothing more than a cup of water and a windowsill. Or, you can check out Sherri Brooks Vintons new book Eat It Up! and learn all the tricks.

Vintons book offers recipes thatll help you cook up pretty much any food scrap into a delicious meal think dishes like Radish Tops Tabouleh but it also shares other helpful tips along the way, like how to properly stock your fridge to fight food waste before it starts. Bonus: this can help you save some money too, because you wont have let your lettuce wilt, again.

We have a super informative excerpt from the book for you below. Read it and live it.