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We all tend to cook too much over the holidays to have a nice table spread, well the problem is we all tend to cook to much everyday and buy too much food when we really do not need that much. This article gives you tips to do, not only for the holiday season but maybe something we can try everyday!

This article talk about realizing how much food waste one family waste. A husband and a wife sat down one day a calculated how much they were wasting of food. They finally but together a budget and a challenge not to waste food. If you plan meals and how much food you need it often becomes easier to not waste as much. Too many Americans go to the store without planning or budgeting food and this then results in food waste.

In this article statistics compare how much food is wasted between countries all over the world. Also, methane is a greenhouse gas that is much more dangerous than carbon dioxide.

Food is biodegradable so whats the problem? This article explains the danger in food littering.

This article talks about how much it costs the US to get rid of the food waste. It also talks about how food waste releases methane, which is more harmful than carbon dioxide. 

"Nearly 80% of U.S. diners surveyed express concern about the amount of food thrown away every day in restaurants, cafeterias and other away-from-home venues." Its really amazing how much food is produce in restaurants its just easy to see why so much food is waste it.

This article talks about how much schools waste. Tribune went into Chicago public schools to see just how much they were wasting. The results were 334 pounds of uneaten food per day. Often times children aren't allowed to take uneaten food out of the cafeteria because it falls into liability and health issues for the school districts then. Chicago schools districts is trying to come up with a way to not have as much food waste but not have liability and health issues on their hands.

Chris Elen asked a journalist Jonathan Bloom the author of American Wasteland book. Chris questioned Bloom why american waste so much food and Bloom pointed three reasons. It because "we waste food because we take it for granded, we wasted because we can and we become superficial about it.

This article explains to us about how much money we waste by throwing food in the trash. It also explains the percentages and overall money we spend as a country on food we throw away.

The average family throws out around $2,275 in food annually. And for most Americans around $40 a month, or 33 lbs of food, ends up in the trash.

In this article by Ronald Bailey he discusses the problem and gives an average of how much food is being wasted; he also gives supported statistics from researchers across the nation. He also discusses the reason why Americans waste food and includes why it needs to be stopped.

One of the issues we waste food is because the wealthier we get, the more we unconsiously spend money at restaurants and at home and then waste food. The issue of wasted food is not on the radar of Americans.

We live in a country with so much food, yet there are people who are starving and can't afford to eat. We buy and abundance and waste it all. How is that fair?

This article talks about how hunger is such a issue but yet we waste so much food. Their are so many people dying of starvation and lack of nutrients but yet we waste so much food.

This website advocates and helps promote food waste and hunger. Feeding America you can find ways to donate, assist or read heart felt story's on hunger.

This article is about China's way of conducting energy in their country. This explain how much and how long China will be the main user of energy. The government in China relieves this and now bring it to the attention in meeting.

China definitely needs to take another look at how they control some parts of the country. I agree with Ivan, it's costing the country so much unnecessary financial farm it's crazy. Great read.

I can't believe it is costing so much for them to use the coal. I wonder if this is why the cities always look so polluted and foggy? Very interesting article!

This article talks about the how much restaurants waste. It talks about how they don't realize how much food is being thrown away. One restaurant owner took away the garage can to teach the employees about not wasting food. They saved a lot of food because every time they have to throw something away they have to ask. It also talks about the odor that comes off of dumpsters. It is then take to landfills where the garbage breaks down into methane to damage peoples health. Its not only the producers who are wasting its also the consumers.

A major problem we have today is that food waste is a low priority for restaurants and nobody is doing anything about it.

This article explains that restaurants find food waste a low priority. This happens because as a restraunt you always have to be prepared if its slow or busy. If its busy then great you wont have any food to be thrown out but if its slow you have to throw away that days production.

At evey step of the supply chain, food is getting wasted. A study suggested a few ways to help reduce food waste are examples like being mindful of buying too much food and cooking too much of it. Also freeze food to save for later instead of throwing it out.

In this article has shown how much it cost for food waste in America. Such as in farm, restaurant, household and so much more. Then, the NRDC report argued that they can do nothing about it because they could not push customer to buy food that they do not want.

we as Americans end up throwing away 40 percent of our food. That is estimated $165 billion every year. the average family of four throws out as much as 2,200 dollars of food every year

This article talks about how Americans waste so much food from the grocery stores to restaurants and they still think of something else that is going to hurt their pockets.

This blog post/ article talk specifically about the food waste that occurs in restaurants.

This article talks about how much food we waste when there is so many people who do not have enough food. It also talks about how food waste affects our water supply. In this article it also gives examples of what people are doing to prevent wasting food.

This article is about the waste that goes to dumps and landfills in 2007. As you can see, food waste is pretty much the biggestest contendor, other than plastic.

This article is from 2004. It states that durig an "extensive" 8 year study they found that $75 billion of food waste is being tossed out each year. It also states that if Americans knew how to use food more "wisely", and buy more "wisely" they wouldn't waste so much of it. They suggest freezing leftovers to save them and eat them later.

This website gives you an overview of how much food we waste. It also presents methods on how to compost.  They have posted recent projects and articles related to food waste management.