Most food waste doesn’t come from bad cooking or poor planning. It comes from small everyday habits that quietly pile up, like buying a little too much, forgetting what’s already in the fridge, or ...

Kitchen cooks are finding a simple trick to reduce food waste: freezing a steel spoon. This method, backed by science, leverages thermal conductivity to rapidly cool liquids, preventing bacterial ...

Alejandra Schrader is a cookbook author, chef, food TV personality, and activist based in Los Angeles, California. The act of cooking often involves throwing food away. The peel of a sweet potato, the ...

Plan meals that intentionally produce leftovers you can repurpose. Choose “stretchable” ingredients: Staples like r ...

Wasted food is a financial and environmental bummer. It costs U.S. consumers $728 every year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, and emits the annual equivalent planet-warming ...

Millions of tons of food are wasted each year in the United States alone. About 35 million tons, to be specific, according to the latest ReFED report. Some 31% of food that is grown and produced goes ...

Using every last scrap from the chopping board may sound absurd. But not only is it doable, it could very well be delicious.

Reducing waste at Compass also extends to community giving. In 2025, Compass donated over 250,000 meals to Second Harvest, Canada’s largest food rescue organization that rescues surplus food across ...