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# Summary  A lot Large volumes  of food is are  wasted in Dutch households. Households are responsible for 38 percent of the entire waste along the food supply chain. Several studies found how the amount of food waste in households is influenced by thethe  way people organize their household life around the practice of eating as well as their abilities to cope with everyday life contingencies. In this master's thesis I qualitatively compare and contrast how two non-representative groups of Dutch households organize their household life around the practice of eating and how they cope with everyday life contingencies that disrupt normal provisioning routines. One group is characterized by households that voluntarily participated in the public engagement campaign "100-100-100" that aimed at a general reduction of residual household waste and improved sorting performance. The other group is characterized by "ordinary" households in the sense that I selected them without any particular selection criteria in mind. other than to investigate daily life.  Drawing upon the results of a content analysis of 170 203  open-ended text responses, I found that 100-100-100 households: (1) have acquired effective simple  routines to creatively use reuse  leftover products in time; (2) make extensive use of the freezer to shortly after their occurrence or  preserve leftovers; (3) them over the long-term for future use; (2)  are characterized by people with a "maker culture" and a positive attitude towards experimentation and do-it-yourself; (4) (3)  remain affected by everyday life contingencies in the form of well-intended food gifts and donations which, however, are not part of their system existing routines  and thus create a difficulty to be utilized. To the contrary, the "ordinary" households in my study: (a) were in various ways affected by everyday life contingencies that disrupted existing practices around eating and led to food waste; the unintended over-provision of food;  (b) showed expressed widely shared  emotions of anger, sadness, dislike and discomfort associated with wasting food; (c) were in many situations aware of the problem and able to articulate effective solutions to prevent food waste  but failed to implement these in their daily household life. These results let me conclude that, in order to effectively combat Some contingencies of everyday life, however, unavoidably disrupt  household food waste, people require more than tips and information how to deal with food, but need active support life  and guidance in go beyond  the creation scope  of new habits and household routines. Practicing these routines could begin in school the household. At this point, food waste becomes a wider cultural issue that needs  to teach students subjects such as "creative cooking", "fridge labeling & screening", and "food-sharing", thereby enabling them be addressed at all places of provision, ranging from retailers  todeal with  the almost unavoidable situations personal workplace. A public debate is necessary to negotiate the responsible utilization  of food over-provisioning aside the background of a perceived over-abundance  and unforeseen disruptions availability of food. Household food waste is unlikely  to everyday life. be reduced significantly if the wider problem of affluence and over-consumption is not solved.