Slight spinoff from the cleaning/fridge posts from last week--I'm curious how much uneaten food you all throw away on a weekly basis. I feel like FI and I are terrible at this and I'm really working hard to get us to get better. Each week when I clean out the fridge and pantry after grocery shopping, I'd say about 2-4 items wind up in the trash (e.g. an expired yogurt, tub of leftover veggies from dinner, stale crackers, package of protein that's gone bad because we didn't get around to cooking or freezing it in time, etc.) I meal plan for the week and send FI shopping each weekend with a grocery list, but sometimes our plans change or a recipe makes more than I anticipated and we wind up with uneaten food.
We've gotten better about this since FI stopped buying "extras" that were not on the grocery list. He used to come home with, for example, 8 yogurts when they were on sale, even though we already had 6 in the fridge and the two of us go through maybe 2-4 yogurts a week at most. But it's still something that we struggle with and that makes me feel guilty, and I'm trying to get better.
So am I really as bad as I think we are or is our "waste" rate more typical than I realize? How much food waste is inevitable? What tips and tricks do you use to minimize it?