Our cookbook of the week is PlantYou: Scrappy Cooking by Barrie, Ont.-based cook and content creator Carleigh Bodrug.

Jump to the recipes: Last week’s loaf breakfast casserole, confetti sheet-pan tacos with carrot top chimichurri and lemon peel pesto.

Carleigh Bodrug’s “scrappy cooking” series started with a statistic. It ended up taking on a life of its own with a viral recipe video for candied orange peels that taste like gummy worms. Fifty-eight per cent of all food in Canada is lost or wasted, while in the United States, 30 to 40 per cent ends up in landfills. The Barrie, Ont.-based cook and content creator was shocked by the scale of it and felt compelled to do something.