Consumer food safety concerns storage facilities, family practices around meals and leftovers and planning capabilities influence the quantity of food waste created in the household. In this study a survey was conducted to determine how attitudes towards packaging might influence motivations to reduce food waste and to explore reasons for household food waste through the distribution of a structured questionnaire to households. According to this survey it has been shown that about 35% of consumers say that packaging of a product influence their purchase. Although consumers awareness is an important factor to reduce food waste.