That is equivalent to throwing out a grocery bag of food in the trash for every 5 you buy each week.
Consider that, along with this statistic from the National Resource Defense Council – the average American household throws out $2,200 worth of food every year.
These statistics got me thinking about the food waste patterns in our own home. How much money was my household throwing out by not consuming it? What are my food waste traps?
To start, I thought we likely wasted little food as we rarely buy in bulk. We cook often during the week so the chances that we wasted food were minimal. Boy, was I wrong!
