Preventing Unnecessary Food Loss

Your Lot and Parcel · Jul 31, 2025 · 31m

Americans are cutting more coupons and changing their buying habits because of high food prices but there is one costly food habit they are not changing, even though it could save them a lot of money. They are not wasting less. Ohio State economist Brian Roe says the average four-person U.S. household throws away a third of the food it buys. Ohio State researchers recently tracked consumers who claimed they were trying to waste less food, and found they wasted just as must as consumer who did not make that claim. “Honestly, we don’t know if it’s even possible to get people to change their…