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Tiffani Thiessen<\/a>\u00a0is helping fans level up their dinner plans with <\/span>her latest cookbook,\u00a0<\/a>Here We Go Again<\/a>: Recipes to Level Up Your Leftovers<\/span><\/em>, and she’s dishing up the details exclusively with ET.<\/span><\/p>\n “I would say the main reason was really wanting to show my kids something I’ve been trying to teach them for a long time about the importance of food waste,” Thiessen explains when asked about the inspiration behind the new cookbook. “I grew up in a family that didn’t have a ton of money, and my mom was always stretching food throughout the week. When I was little, I didn’t understand that her roasted chicken was then made into enchiladas the next day, but as I started honing in on this idea of, you know, we all should be repurposing and really be a little more self-aware of wasting, that I had this idea of a cookbook that I’ve never seen before.”<\/span><\/p>\n Here We Go Again<\/span><\/em>\u00a0is dedicated to giving leftovers their second wind, and perfect for ingredients that would otherwise be trash-bound. Thiessen, who shares daughter Harper, 12, and son, Holt, 8, <\/span>with husband Brady Smith<\/a>, recounts how she began formulating the book idea <\/span>at the beginning of the pandemic<\/a>, remembering how everyone was “scared to go to the grocery store.”<\/span><\/p>\n “We didn\u2019t know what was happening,\u00a0so we were kind of forced to stretch the food a little bit longer than normal,” she adds. “It made me think, ‘Wait, this is kind of how I was raised but for different reasons.’ That was a budget reason and this was a pandemic, but this is what I felt was important to show, that we should be doing this anyways.”<\/span><\/p>\n The actress says that the cookbook is “a little bit of a love letter to my childhood,” adding that she made sure to include “a little nod to my mom because she definitely was the queen of leftovers at first. But I feel like I’ve taken the title over.”<\/span><\/p>\n In honor of the 49-year-old’s new book, she and ET’s Nischelle Turner play a quick round of <\/span>Sip or Spill<\/span><\/em> while sipping on a “Pink Lady,” which is featured in <\/span>Here We Go Again<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n