The holidays are when food brings people together - but they’re also when food waste quietly reaches its annual peak. In the U.S., household waste increases by an estimated 25% between Thanksgiving and New Year’s, driven mostly by overbuying, oversized portions, and leftovers that never get eaten. When food is thrown away, everything that goes into it is wasted too: water, soil nutrients, farm labor, fuel, packaging, and transport miles. The simplest climate solution we can p