Need to Save Some Cash? Start With Your Refrigerator

Americans waste $1,866 in food every year, experts say

TammyTierney
Writers’ Blokke
Published in
5 min readSep 24, 2021

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Shoppers often overestimate the amount of fruit and vegetables they’ll eat. Photo by Maria Lin Kim on Unsplash

When our four sons were teenagers, my husband and I were always a little embarrassed to go grocery shopping.

As we pushed our two fully loaded shopping carts to the checkout counter, I’d quickly explain that I was paying for both, then laugh and add, “We’ve…

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TammyTierney
Writers’ Blokke

Former reporter/editor now freelancing from the base of the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina. I write about business, health and mental health.