The People’s Cookbook and the Channel 4 TV series it accompanies, The People’s Supermarket, will revolutionise the way we think about our weekly shop. Every week millions of us throw out food from our fridge and head back to the supermarket to buy more. With Tesco's alone currently expecting to lose £85 million worth of food per year as 'waste', and with weekly shopping bills rising week by week, the money we spend at the supermarkets isn’t just spent on the food we eat – it also pays for the food they to have throw away. Arthur Potts Dawson has had enough of a business that pretends to be about feeding the nation, but is as mercilessly profit-driven as any city bank. He is going to challenge how we buy our food. And through his skills as a chef he’s going to teach us how to make the most from what we buy, whether that's making soup with the bits of chicken we don't really use or jam from over-ripe plums the aim is ultimately to have no waste at all. The People's Cookbook will be about taking those lessons and applying them on a domestic scale. So that the next time you plan to go to the supermarket you don't start by throwing out the 'bargains' you bought last time but haven't got around to cooking or eating.