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The hook (why it's a story now)

• 30–40% of the U.S. food supply is wasted (USDA / EPA) — and roughly half of that is at the household level (ReFED).
• Existing solutions are top-down: food banks, rescue orgs, paid delivery apps. Food Finder is the first U.S. subscription platform built around neighbors trading directly with neighbors.
• The "no money" rule is structural, not aspirational. Payments between members are prohibited on and off the platform. Food cannot be monetized — by design.
• Sharers and Finders are the same people on different days. The reciprocity is what makes peer-to-peer food sharing sustainable where charity framing has historically struggled.

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Drop-in summaries

60 words — news brief / newsletter blurb

Food Finder, a new U.S.-based subscription platform, lets neighbors share unopened, not-expired packaged food with each other at no cost. Unlike food banks or paid delivery apps, members trade directly — the same households share one week and find the next. Payments between members are structurally prohibited. The food itself is always free. More at foodfinder.org.

120 words — blog post lede / roundup item

About 30 to 40 percent of the U.S. food supply is wasted, most of it inside households. A new subscription platform called Food Finder is taking a peer-to-peer approach: members list unopened, not-expired packaged food they won't use, and a neighbor nearby picks it up — no money changes hands. Unlike charitable food programs, Food Finder is structured as a reciprocal exchange. The same members who share food one week often find it the next. A small subscription fee covers the platform; payments between members are structurally prohibited, on and off the service. The platform is U.S.-based and not tied to any one city. Learn more at foodfinder.org.

Copy-paste social posts

30–40% of U.S. food gets thrown away — mostly inside households. A new subscription platform, Food Finder, lets neighbors pass along unopened, not-expired food for free. No payments between members, ever. The food is always free. https://foodfinder.org

Most food waste in America happens inside households — not on farms, not in restaurants. A new U.S.-based platform, Food Finder, is trying a peer-to-peer fix: a subscription service where neighbors pass along unopened, not-expired packaged food for free. No payments between members, on or off the platform. https://foodfinder.org

Food Finder (foodfinder.org) — new U.S. subscription platform for neighbor-to-neighbor food sharing. Members list unopened, not-expired packaged food they won't use; a neighbor picks it up at no cost. No payments between members are permitted, on or off the platform. A peer-to-peer take on the household food-waste problem.

Suggested headlines & angles

Headlines — steal any of these

• A subscription app for the cereal box you won't eat
• Food waste is a household problem. This new platform treats it like one.
• The case of seltzer you bought by mistake now has a neighbor
• No-money food sharing: a peer-to-peer answer to household food waste
• Not a food bank, not a delivery service — neighbors trading neighbors

Angles by beat

• Sustainability / climate: household waste is ~50% of U.S. food waste; bottom-up vs top-down models.
• Consumer / personal finance: ~$1,500 of food per household thrown out yearly; what changes with a free pass-along channel.
• Tech / startups: a subscription with a hard no-payments-between-members rule — why the founder thinks it's necessary.
• Local / community: neighbor-to-neighbor exchange as a re-engagement pattern.
• Food / lifestyle: a practical Tuesday-night answer to the bulk-store haul and the snacks the kids stopped eating.