Americans waste nearly three times more food on Thanksgiving than on a typical day. Here's how to deal with leftovers
hanksgiving is upon us. Which means Americans are about to stuff themselves silly, watch football that has nothing to do with the
, take a nap—and then try to figure out what to do with all their leftovers. Sadly, a lot of it will not get eaten.one recent estimate from ReFED, a New York-based food-waste research organization. That’s about triple the 115 million pounds of residential food wasted daily on average, and comes out to nearly a pound per person. But because food waste is not distributed uniformly, perhaps a better way to think about that amount, as ReFed points out, is that it would provide 6.5 meals to each of the 38.3 million food insecure people in the country..
Households are, however, primarily responsible for the greenhouse gas emissions resulting from uneaten food.itself, but it’s worth a quick PSA before gathering this year that there are some simple and practical strategies to reduce Thanksgiving food waste and the emissions tied to it. First, notes Suggitt, is to improve meal prep plans using online resources such astool that calculates how much of each dish will be sufficient based on the types of food and the number of guests.
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