A recent report by the Economic Research Service finds Americans have spent nearly the same portion of their income on food for the past two decades but a larger share has been spent on food away-from-home.
The agency says in 2000, the average share of Americans’ disposable personal income spent on food totaled about 10 percent. Researchers say slightly less than six percent of that was spent on food-at-home while the rest went to away-from-home purchases.
