How much food do you waste/throw away from your residence?

Hardly anything. When I buy a chicken, I use everything but the squawk.

I’d rather throw out the stuff I can’t manage to wolf down, than to risk food poisoning.

I’m the queen of keeping a clean fridge, so very little. I’m always the one going through the fridge, finding the stuff that’s about to go bad, and cooking it. I’ve learned to cook beets, eggplant, kale, spinach, acorn squash, and other foods a wide variety of ways, so many foods that I would have never bought, so I wouldn’t have learned how to cook them, all thanks to the habits of more than one member of my family of buying stuff they don’t have a plan for, and then forgetting about it. It gets really tiring actually. A lot of the time, I feel like I never cook with fresh food, because I’m always trying to salvage something that’s about to go bad. On the other hand, it probably saves 5 or 10 bucks a week, which could really add up. Now if I could just teach them to shop with a plan, instead of just throwing crap in the cart.
If you can’t tell, this is one of my pet peeves.

I use up most things, as far as food goes. With dairy (milk, coffee creamer, and yogurt), if it smells a bit off, I toss it. I cook big meals and freeze them in individual containers, so, I just pull one at a meal and I don’t end up wasting (uneaten leftovers).

I work hard for my money. I don’t waste..

My biggest problem is that I live alone, and the way most food is packaged is not designed for one person. I do my best, but sometimes things go bad before I can eat all of it.

We usually don’t throw away any food unless it’s rotten or something.

Barely any. I usually don’t have very much, so I appreciate what I have, even if it’s not my favourite. Sure some of it goes to waste, but I do my best to use it on leftovers and so forth, if I can. Wasting food sucks.

For some who may not believe me, I say this for myself, rather than the principle attributed to starving kids in Africa. :/

@jeffgoldblumsprivatefacilities: I see on your profile it doesn’t look like you live in Texas. Too bad! Another thing I love about my grocery store I was raving about in this question is that it’s oriented towards things being available in bulk, so you can buy exactly the amount of whatever it is you want, no more, no less.

Thanks to my 4 legged composters, virtually nothing goes to waste at our house. Also we love leftovers so if it isn’t finished at dinner one night, it will be lunch or dinner the next day.

I try to either freeze the leftovers, put it in the fridge for the next days lunch, or feed the healthy stuff to my pups.

As little as possible. My parents were still old school having to endure WWII and the hard time between 1945 and 1950. When I grew up I was taught to put smaller portions on my plate and if needed ask for more. All that was left in the middle of the table ended up in the fridge or freezer. Few of the leftovers were thrown away. Even a single olive was saved.

I think it’s a wonderful principle. In fact it’s very modern. The new buzzword is sustainable development because resources are scarce.

The only reason any food is thrown away is if it has gone bad. We make it a point to cook only as much as is required for a particular meal and we finish it. If there are left overs we finish them the next day.

We were always taught that wasting food is insulting God, so I do try my utmost to make sure nothing is wasted.