piles of fruit

Look at this-- 7 families pictured with their weekly food allotment. Just goes to show that we (me and you and also "we" as Americans) are wasting way too much food.

Here, a similar article talks about new ways to monitor how much we waste in the kitchen, and where that food could be going.

And then there's this. A proposed supermarket in the Boston area that uses expired products to make healthy and affordable ready-made food...

"Although most people have access to enough food, he said, many inexpensive meals are unhealthy, contributing to obesity, diabetes, and other medical conditions that have reached epidemic proportions."