[Foodplanning] spending on fruits and vegetables by poor consumers

[Nevin Cohen]

A new USDA report finds that households with incomes below 130 percent  
of the poverty line spend increased income on beef and frozen prepared  
foods rather than on fruits and vegetables, potentially for reasons of  
taste and convenience. Only households with incomes greater than 130  
percent of the poverty line spend more money on fruits and vegetables  
when their incomes increase.  See Are Lower Income Households Willing  
and Able To Budget for Fruits and Vegetables? by Hayden Stewart and  
Noel Blisard.  Economic Research Report No. (ERR-54) 29 pp, January  
2008.  http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/err54/