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Food waste at home, most people want to prevent it. they just don't know where to start. this article teaches tips and tricks to avoid food waste in the home.

Here are a few tips on how we as consumers can contribute to food sustainability. Even though the article is a European one, does not mean we cannot take some notes.

This article talks about the myth of having your appliances plugged in and still sucking up your energy, especially older appliances. So it turns out that even though your appliance is turned off, it's still wasting energy because it's plugged in.

This website includes great tips on eating vegetarian friendly. It has several different options as to eat healthier and even lose weight.

This article talks about how food waste has increased over the years. It gives some suggestions on what we can do to prevent food waste. It also mentions how fresh products make most of household waste and how restaurants contribute to the food waste. 

This article gives five ways that people can decrease their food waste.

How Germany keeps green .Even know there waste number is high. Also helpful tips to cut waste.

Great tips on how to cut down food waste. Cutting food waste how it helps you make yummy food in the kitchen. The last one is important to read.

Original: "Use it up, wear it out, make do, or do without" is a favorite adage in both frugal and green circles, and it is something I strive to live by. One of the best ways to "use it up" is to think differently about our food and ways to avoid wasting it. Lloyd wrote a great post a while back about the statistics for how much food we waste in the U.S., and the numbers are, frankly, appalling. On average, we waste 14% of our food purchases per year, and the average American family throws out over $600 of fruit per year. Paraphrase: Half the loaf of bread goes stale and the grapes aren't as fresh. With an attitude to stop waste and some creativity, you can create new things with your food before it actually goes bad. Left over roasted vegetable can be made into soup and leftover rice can be added into oatmeal the next morning. There are many more ways to reduce waste in your home.

Great article that gives actual numbers and graphs on food waste.Goes over food transportation and also tips on how to reduce food waste!

Wasting food is not only wasting money, but it is unhealthy. We waste moneyand kill the earth and the environment at the same time. There are several things we can do to change our harmful way of life.

This article talks about how America is on board with recycling, but its priorities have mostly been cardboard and plastic. It talks about how we don't pay attention to one of the most important problems food waste. NATH Sustainability Solutions is an involved organization that works with schools and restaurants and they bring awareness to the people about food waste.

An article that gives ways on how to reduce waste in your home and how it will save you money if you do so.

There are ten simple thing that everyone can do to help make sure that we can really be sustainable for the future decades to come. In order to do so we need to understand where our food is really coming from, and what power we really do have as a consumer.

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This is a great article for someone who wants tips on how to minimize food waste. The author gives crucial info on how to save food.

Food waste is a big problem for Americans today. We can solve this problem by doing a few things watching and limiting what we buy and eat, saving what we do not finish, and ignoring sale by dates because they are not expiration dates. Using methods like these we can successfully reduce food waste from one pound a day per person.

Try and use a shopping list, start a hobby of canning foods, use unwanted foods in smoothies or quick meals. Need some recipes, this site has them for you, also found tips on helping you store your food. Composting basics, composting systems are explained in this site. Also local information is provided for you.

This article talks about 10 facts about sustainability. How we need to grow our own food because now a days the food is being genetically modified and the government is subsiding with it. My favorite way of sustainability was to eat animal products because "organic" foods in marketplaces may be mono cropped.