Americans throw out 32% of the food they buy. Here’s how to avoid so much waste

With holiday meals in full swing, it’s the perfect time to rethink how you’re buying, cooking, and wasting food.

You saw it at Thanksgiving, and you’ll likely see it at your next holiday feast: piles of unwanted food—unfinished second helpings, underwhelming kitchen experiments and the like—all dressed up with no place to go, except the back of the refrigerator. With luck, hungry relatives will discover some of it before the inevitable green mold renders it inedible.

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