My dogs and I have an agreement. I follow them around with a plastic bag and pick up after them. In exchange, they don’t tell my wife and kids how much I eat when I come back downstairs after everyone else goes to bed. At this point, my family must know what I’m up to since I’ve apparently turned our household into something of an American aberration: By morning, we never have leftovers. I used to feel bad about my after-hours eating habits. But that was before I realized that the rest of you people are throwing out 27 million tons of food a year. Researchers recently found that “the average person wasted 3.5 pounds of food per week. Of that, only a third consisted of inedible parts, such as chicken bones or banana peels. And of the remaining, edible trashed food, bin digs found that 23 percent consisted of prepared leftovers, from any source — followed by fruits and vegetables, baked goods, and liquids and oils.” (Until just now, I didn’t even know there were inedible parts). Caitlin Dewey in WaPo: Why Americans have stopped eating leftovers.