A new study suggests the key to reducing household food waste could be more frequent visits where shoppers buy less.
. I would go to his house for dinner, and the first step surprised me: We’d walk to the grocery store and buy exactly what we needed for the night. He said it was the French way. True or not, it certainly wasn’t the suburban Philadelphia way. When I was growing up, my mom would plan out a string of meals and then drive to the store for a weekly shop., but if us kids conned mom into ordering pizza, that was a meal missed.
She then compared the New York borough to Chicago. “Just three to four more stores in the Chicago area can lead to 6 to 9 percent reduction in waste. This is accompanied by a 1 to 4 percent decrease in grocery expenses for households,” the author explained in announcing her findings. “What's more, increasing the number of grocery stores in a given area also works to combat emissions, while reducing consumer food expenditures, achieving two goals that are often considered competing.
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