This doesn't surprise me at all. Back when my kids were still in the house, I would go shopping once a week and buy tons of stuff. But then, we would decide to go out one night or we didn't want what I had planned on cooking (mainly because a processed boxed food was quicker to cook than from scratch). So, lettuce, fruit, veggies, stale chips, moldy bread, sour milk, moldy cheese - lots of food disposed of weekly.

I've been only cooking whole foods the past eight months. I purchase no processed foods. The kids are away at college so it's just my husband and myself. I have a new Fresh Market which went in just about a mile from my house which I drive by daily on the way home from work. I find that if I shop more often and only buy what I need for one or two days, I don't throw much of anything away.