It's my pleasure to welcome you here to the Clark Howard Show.

You know, our mission is to serve you with advice and information that empowers you to make better financial decisions in your life.

I'm going to start this week off, this day off, this podcast and YouTube show talking

about one of my favorite subjects, food.

Food prices have gone up so much, but your ability to save is so great now.

I want to talk about that.

And something else has gone way up. Probably the

top inflation worry consumers have right now is what's going on with electric bills. And with

winter on the horizon, you've got to be ready because you don't want that bill setting your

wallet on fire. So talk about something we set our wallet on fire with.

Do you know that we, the American people, we're number one.

We throw out more food that we buy than anybody else does as best anybody can tell anywhere on earth.

Depending on which study you see we the

american people throw out somewhere between a third and 40 percent of the food that we've spent

our good hard-earned money to buy i mean there's a reason there's a theory I won't say this is a reason, there's a theory.

In most of the rest of the world, people buy food at a vendor, corner store, whatever.

They buy what they're going to eat that day.

We're different.

We do these big grocery shopping trips, and we buy a big supply of food,

and a lot of it ends up buried in the back of the refrigerator, the freezer, more often the

refrigerator, and spoils out and gets thrown out. That's a problem. We don't do what the stores do, you know,

where they rotate the items on the shelf

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