Wild Oats grocery publishes a magazine each month. In this month’s magazine on page 65 they share the following statistic:

On average Americans chuck a quarter of all the produce they buy, mostly because it’s gone bad… [This is] about 470 lbs of food per year – at an annual cost of $600 per family or $43 billion worth of food every year!

I know I could do a better job of ensuring we eat the food and produce we buy, but it is shocking to realize what a large impact it is across the country!