Amen.

Something that helped me was to realize that wasted food biodegrades just fine. The primary hard-to-replace resource that you've wasted is somebody's time.

And with modern farming, when you calculate how little of somebody's time you've wasted and then realize you paid them for that time, it's really not so bad. You wasted a bit of money, but not much, and that's basically it.

Not to mention health consequences of scenes like: "The apples/tomatoes/whatever are perfectly OK! Look, I will just cut off the bad part. We can't just throw it away!"

Cool thing is that bananas almost never get spoiled. Even if they are almost completely brown, they are still good to eat - as they merely ripened up. (Just don't confuse mashed bananas with ripened bananas). In fact, half-brown bananas are healthier than yellow/green bananas, because the starches are transformed to sugars, so they are easier to digest.

It's better to let food go to waste than to let it go to your waist. If there's one thing worse than getting fat by eating too much yummy food, it's got to be getting fat by eating food you don't really want.

I concur!

One thing I also do is to batch cooking every sunday. It takes to me less than 70 minutes to cook quality meals (in my case, rice with a chicken/veggies wok and veggies soup), and as a result I almost don't have to cook from monday to thursday. So I don't eat out as often as I used to and that's better for my health and my finances!

Good timing, last week I released an app that helps you remember about the food that you have in your fridge.

Hey Sebastian,

I got the same from my parents. I was pondering about the "can't speak for the rest of the world, but most of the Americans I know" and while I could say the same about most Europeans I know, I was wondering if this is generational/cultural rather than geographical. At least in my case I suspect a direct link with temporal distance from WW2, or in other words a time of scarcity. Eating out was certainly not an option at that time, and you wouldn't want to leave food on your plate because you didn't know when your next meal would have been. In that situation the most efficient thing to do was to eat everything you had, no exceptions. Now that the conditions have changed and the problem is no longer lack of food, but rather excessive spending and poor quality meals as a result of eating out, the most efficient thing to do has changed.