Show EXTENSION 8 BR VICT BOMS by Mary Lois Hayes VEGETABLES IN MEALS INCREASE WITH INCOME About cents out of the average food dollar for at-home eating is spent for sweet dry and Sixty-five cents of a dollar spent for vegetables goes for fresh 11 cents for and cents for Studies show also that Americans use about pounds of vegetables per person per Of pounds fresh pounds and pounds The higher the particularly in the upper income range the more vegetables we Fresh vegetables average slightly higher with successively higher Incomes and go up significantly in the over per year Canned vegetables increase sharply up to the middle but then level Use of frozen vegetables rises consistently throughout the whole income Use of fresh potatoes' rises among the lower income but is down in the higher income And fewer dry beans and peas are used as income Over-all vegetables and potatoes for about 12 percent of the total value of all food eaten at |