Comments on: Is Food Why Americans Don’t Save Money? http://www.grocerycouponguide.com/articles/is-food-why-americans-dont-save-money/ A guide that shows you how to save money on groceries with grocery coupons Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:22:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cate http://www.grocerycouponguide.com/articles/is-food-why-americans-dont-save-money/comment-page-1/#comment-35318 Cate Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:30:18 +0000 http://www.grocerycouponguide.com/?p=2529#comment-35318 I think social food purchases--like lunches and dinners out, going out for drinks (though calling cocktails "food" is a little much!), etc. is a big reason Americans don't save money. However, I don't think Americans would necessarily go out to eat so much if more people knew how to cook! Americans eat so much froze, prepackaged food these days that it's no wonder people eat at restaurants so much--how many Healthy Choice meals can you eat in a row? At the same time, I think it's important to remember that the average American of 30 to 40 years ago spent a significantly larger percentage of their expendable income on groceries than we do today, thanks to factory farming and the industrial food industry. That's one area where cutting costs is definitely NOT a good thing! I think social food purchases–like lunches and dinners out, going out for drinks (though calling cocktails “food” is a little much!), etc. is a big reason Americans don’t save money. However, I don’t think Americans would necessarily go out to eat so much if more people knew how to cook! Americans eat so much froze, prepackaged food these days that it’s no wonder people eat at restaurants so much–how many Healthy Choice meals can you eat in a row?

At the same time, I think it’s important to remember that the average American of 30 to 40 years ago spent a significantly larger percentage of their expendable income on groceries than we do today, thanks to factory farming and the industrial food industry. That’s one area where cutting costs is definitely NOT a good thing!

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