re: Food items that never go to waste vs food items you end up dumping out in some capacity.

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Things that go bad I’m always tossing: celery, lunch meat, and bacon believe it or not.

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Bacon I can always find a use for. But to add to lunch meat, some random sliced cheese like Swiss/or some block of cheese that’s gotten moldy

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Chips - sound good when I’m at the store but just don’t end up eating them.

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Chips come in so many varieties.

Doritos would not last, but some random “healthier” corn chip will linger in half bag stale limbo for a month

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We throw away more food than we eat right now

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Doubtful

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Thats celery for me as well. Even if I fix a couple recipes that week with celery in them, I still don’t use all of the stalks. I almost always end up having to throw it out.

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I have a neighbor that I always give most of my bag of celery to because I buy it for a recipe and never use it all. He uses trinity (not the SELA trinity but mirepoix) several times a week so he is always happy to get extra onion, carrots or celery.

We never throw out beef, and I mean nothing. The bones are saved for stock, and the trimmings are saved for tallow.

We throw out a bunch of lettuce and greens. We eat salads 4-5 times a week usually and always keep the fixings but some weeks we buy the greens and maybe only eat one salad.

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celery

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Celery freezes well - dice it up and throw in ziploc bag in freezer for next recipe.

Never go to waste: ice cream. Last forever in freezer and never a problem finding someone to eat it

Dump out: strawberries. Wife buys a ton of fruit for my son to take to school. Open the fridge midweek and the strawberries are now white…..

we've got two bunches of asparagus in the fridge right now. one is really old the other is just old. peppers are another. (jalapeno mostly)

Occasionally, Lunch meat and fruit. My boys will go on a ham sandwich kick and I'll go through a pound in a few days. Buy another pound the next week and it may not get touched. Same with apples and bananas. I'll buy a half dozen of each and most of the time they all get eaten, but every now and then I'll notice some fruit flies in the kitchen and find a few pieces no one has eaten that get tossed.

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food items you end up dumping out in some capacity.

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Tomatoes.

I don't know why we need 6 tomatoes every week when we end up throwing away 4 of them.

Saltines have no problem being eaten in our house. 3/4 household members like to dip saltines in gumbo/sauce piquant/etoufee/anything that can be dipped.

As to the OPs question of what gets wasted - probably tortillas. We will buy them specifically for a taco/wrap meal and then 2 or 3 will be left over and never used. Spices/sauces of the orient. We will make stir fry or do hibachi on the blackstone. I'll have left over fish sauce or sesame oil that eventually expires. Cheese - I have come to dislike pre-shredded cheese so we have gone away from it to some extent. But we will buy a pre shredded cheese and use a little and the bag will have mold the next time I think about it.