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# Introduction  A lot of food is wasted in Dutch households. Along the entire food supply chain, households are responsible for the single-largest contribution with a share of 38 percent \cite{soethoudt_monitor_2014;ministerie_van_economische_zaken_beleidsbrief_2013}. \cite{soethoudt_monitor_2014}\cite{ministerie_van_economische_zaken_beleidsbrief_2013}.  This food that could have potentially been eaten is connected to tremendous financial and environmental implications. Each year, 800 million kilograms of food are thrown away in the Netherlands. This equals 2.4 billion Euro of and is associated with 3.5% of the total Dutch CO2 emissions. On a per capita basis, people dispose 50 kilograms per person per year which equals 155 Euro per person and represents 14 percent of the annual food purchases. The severe environmental impact of food waste had been recognized by the Dutch government (Voedingscentrum 2014). An ambitious goal has been set to reduce food waste by 20 percent in 2015 in comparison to 2009 (Ministerie van Economische Zaken 2013). Aside this background, in my master's thesis I study how two different groups of households negotiate with the occurrence of food waste, what measures they take to prevent or reduce food waste, and how contingencies posed from everyday life affect and counteract intentions to not waste food. The different constellation of the two groups allowed for an insightful contrast of the negotiations of household life around the practice of eating. Whereas one group of "ordinary" households was not selected without any particular selection criteria in mind, the other group consisted of participants of a public engagement campaign titled "100-100-100". Through their participation, these households willingly tried to improve their residual waste sorting results and reduce their total amount of residual waste. Drawing upon the results of two waste sorting analyses, it becomes clear that these households are "front-runners" with a far above average performance. Their amount of food waste was on average 64 percent lower than that of an average Dutch household prior to campaign begin1. If the entire Netherlands were to adopt patterns of the 100-100-100 households, the country would achieve 844 million Euro worth financial savings, water savings of at least 444 liters per capita per year, and land use savings of at least 8 m2 per capita per year.