10 Ways to Make Less Garbage By: Food Network Kitchen Save Collection Share Before more food lands in the trash, get schooled on the several simple ways you and your family can toss less. 1 / 11 Photo: Peter Dazeley © Take On Trash We Americans buy more food than we can eat. Then we waste it — a lot of it. Cutting back on wasted food can start with minor changes to how you buy, and can extend to what you buy, where you buy and how you cook.