Waste less food = buy less food
These numbers are all over the board. The USDA have done studies as well as various universities about the food that gets wasted in America every year. I was looking at household waste and the numbers were hard to find, because usable food gets wasted at every stage of production starting at the farm.
The best figures I could find said Americans throw out between 12% and 25% of food they purchase every year. Let’s take the high end and say a family who has a food budge of $400 a month can save $100 a month by planning. This means planning meals, splitting meals at restaurants, freezing unused portions, taking leftovers for lunch, etc. This is a savings of $1,200 a year.
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