Savings tip: 27 simple ways to make your groceries last longer

If you're like the average American, you waste more than 20 pounds of food every month.

This is because 40 percent of the food in the U.S. goes uneaten – that's almost half.

While some of this food is lost during production and processing (such as produce that goes bad before it’s harvested), a significant amount is wasted in people's homes simply because it goes bad before it's eaten.

Not only does this amount to more than $2,000 in annual losses for the average U.S. household of four, but all of that wasted food uses up precious stores of freshwater – about 25 percent of freshwater use is wasted on food that's not even eaten!
Plus, this "throw-away" food...

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