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Originally Posted by DoubleF
I'm curious on what % waste some of you would say your monthly groceries entail. The reason I ask this, is because I had a conversation with someone the other day about how he and his wife don't ever do left overs and how cooking at home likely wasn't much cheaper than eating out due to this habit, and I just wondered. Are some families who purchase $1k actually only consuming $700-800 food per month?
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Probably 15% waste. We eat leftovers and do bag lunches. However, my wife buys enormous amounts of fresh produce, and much of it goes to waste. Basically, if our fridge isn't stuffed to overflowing with carrots, tomatoes, melons, eggplants, cucumber, asparagus, peppers, avocadoes, grapes, lemons, oranges, apples, blueberries, and kiwi fruit, she loses her mind. Feels our children are going to get scurvy or something.
Her way to economize is to buy in bulk, which means a lot of it goes bad before we eat. I've tried to explain that paying 70 per cent per orange when bought in a box of 15 versus bought individually doesn't really save us any money if we throw 6 of the oranges out. As I noted earlier, I took over buying groceries for a while, but when she looked in the fridge and all she saw was peppers, carrots, some lettuce, apples, and grapes, she would have a panic attack. So I relented. It is what it is.