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How much of your grocery money ends up in the trash?

The spinach that turned before Tuesday. The last few strawberries going soft in the back. Pick what your household usually buys and see what it adds up to in a year.

What do you usually buy?

Tap the foods that land in your cart most weeks.

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Dairy & eggs

Meat

Fruit

Vegetables

Bakery & boxed

Pantry

Canned

Frozen

Snacks & drinks

20 in your cart

What you throw away

Your 20 foods, four people, one year. About one in every six dollars you spend on them ends up in the trash.

$1,254

a year in food that never gets eaten$104 a month320 lb of food2,480 kg of CO₂e, like driving 6,199 miles

Beef20% goes uneaten$287

Bread and baked goodsabout 20% goes uneaten (estimate)$180

Chicken15% goes uneaten$162

Candy and sweetsabout 24% goes uneaten (estimate)$99

Cheese11% goes uneaten$90

Frozen meals, pizza and wafflesabout 24% goes uneaten (estimate)$88

Eggs23% goes uneaten$49 Milk20% goes uneaten$39

Cereal and oatmealabout 14% goes uneaten (estimate)$36

Yogurt21% goes uneaten$33

Most of this is fixable. Look up how long any food lasts and how to use it up in Food Facts →

$1,254a year in food you throw away

The date on the carton doesn't know your family. Haivenly does.

Keep the $1,254 with Haivenly.

Nobody plans to throw food away. It happens when no one has the full picture of what's in the kitchen. Haivenly gives your whole household that picture, and learns how fast you really go through each food.

Scan your grocery receiptEverything you bought goes into your kitchen inventory. No typing.

It learns your household, not just the dateHaivenly picks up how fast your family really goes through milk, bread and everything else. So it can flag the half bag of spinach before it turns, and nudge your next list toward what you'll actually use.

Cook what needs usingDinner ideas start with what's about to turn, not a recipe that sends you back to the store.

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It's getting more expensive to waste

Prices haven't come back down, so the same habits cost more every year.

+37%what you buy costs since 2020

+$341more wasted a year than in 2020

In 2020, a year of these groceries cost your household $4,972. Today it's $6,831, and it moved +1% in just the last year. Nothing about your habits changed. The food you throw away simply costs more now.

Biggest price jumps in your cart

Beef+75%Eggs+56%Lettuce+53%Candy and sweets+44%Yogurt+42%Chicken+37%

National average prices since January 2020. Source: BLS.

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Questions people ask

How much food does the average family of four throw away?

For a typical family cart (eggs, milk, yogurt, cheese, chicken, beef, fruit, vegetables, bread, cereal, pasta, frozen meals, snacks, sweets and juice), about $1,254 a year, or $104 a month. Pick your own foods above to see your number.

How much money does a household waste on food?

Across all 66 foods in this calculator, the average American leaves about $475 of food uneaten each year, so a family of four tosses around $1,900. That's at today's national average prices.

Which foods get wasted the most?

By share left uneaten at home, USDA's estimates put clementines (52%), cherries (51%), radishes (47%), kiwi (45%), lemons (44%) near the top. By dollars, meat usually leads because it costs the most per pound.

Does food waste matter for the climate?

Yes. Food that's thrown away still had to be grown, shipped and kept cold. For the typical family cart, the uneaten food adds up to about 2,480 kg of CO₂e a year, about the same as driving 6,199 miles.

How can I waste less food?

Buy closer to what you actually use, put the things that turn fastest at the front, freeze what you won't get to, and plan meals around what needs using. Haivenly does that tracking for you from your grocery receipts.

How we calculate this

No guesswork here. For each food, we start with how much the average American buys in a year and USDA's estimate of how much of it goes uneaten at home. Then we multiply by the people in your home and the national average price.

yearly cost = pounds per person × people × price per pound × share uneaten

Every source, data year and formula is on our methodology page.

These are national averages, so your kitchen will differ. Sources: USDA Economic Research Service, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and USDA FoodKeeper.