October 11, 2017 by Diane MacEachern · Activism

How to Reduce Food Waste: 3 Ways to Waste Less of What You Buy Most

Americans typically squander 40 percent of their food budget. Here are easy ways to reduce food waste that will help you pocket $40 of every $100 you used to spend.

To many of my friends and my online community, I’m the “queen of green.” I drive a hybrid, live in a passive solar house, compost, recycle to the max, and work as a climate change activist and green living guru. But until recently, knowing how to reduce food waste was not my forte.

When it came to food, I used to have only two real priorities: buy organic and eat less meat. What I didn’t think about much at all was food waste. In fact, this used to be my Saturday morning ritual:

Go to the grocery store early to beat the crowds.

Come home and put bags full of food on the kitchen counter.

Start cleaning out the refrigerator, making room for all the new food by throwing out the old.

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