. >> hi i'm lisa fletch fletcher and you're in the stream.re talking with innovators working to stop 35 million tons of food from being wasted every year in the u.s. our digital producer wajahat ali is taking your comments. how to get a handle on this problem.

>> hi i'm lisa fletch fletcher and you're in the stream. we're talking with innovators working to stop 35 million tons of food from being wasted every year in the u.s. our digital producer wajahat ali is taking your comments. how to get a handle on this problem. >> yeah and even our own stream team is guilty of this, megan our producer's pumpkin bars wasted, the perfectly good care rots, h rotlecarrots, we need to fix the source of this problem, the consumer who overbuys, leading to food waste, black nerd says, we need to go back to smaller portions, american portions are muj compared to other countries. you are the third host of the show, throughout the show engage us, using the twitter #a jam stream. ,. >> the average american spends about $150 on produce to poultry. nearly half of what's tossed in the cart doesn't end up in anyone's belly, instead it ends up here in the landfill. according to the national institutes of healthy, the cost of $165 or more. research shows confusing dates on packaging oversized portions and minor imperfection