More restaurants and alcohol, more potatoes and snacks, and less meat, sugar and bread

2024-09-05 11:24:55

From time to time we are called Household Finance Survey. He did it National Statistics Institute and in it we find interesting data and trends that may seem contradictory. First I tell you the data, then I comment on some paradoxes.

One of the trends observed in food consumption during the decade studied, which runs from 2013 to 2023, is that it increases. we want to eat moreGo to restaurants and have them cook us food, wow. And, interestingly, every time we drink less alcohol Well, the only thing in which the average expenditure per family has decreased is the alcohol and tobacco sector. For the rest, the household expenditure on food he did not stop eating.

With regards to the artWhat we notice is that we eat more chips, snacks (including health problems that these are associated with and are described in Analysis of salty snacks. Organic is best, others are loaded with salt, fats, sugar and additives), ice cream and beer.

What we are less bread and sugar. Other trends observed are that we prefer coffee in capsules instead of ground coffee, which is more traditional, and that with pork we replace beef. And more styles; truly marked by it high price, olive oilTrue liquid gold, ceasing to be the first item in our shopping cart in favor of sunflower oil.

At home we change our habits and have the supermarket it shows. And he is Consumption of potatoes, mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes has increased by 150%, and snacks by 100%. Next, I explain the biggest improvements in food consumption, which occur in the water powder with and without gas and ice, 38%. Ice cream is 37% more, and strawberries, raspberries, bananas and grapes increase by 35%. I invited him to read the recent report on the farm Echoes of Lozoya that produces organic fruits of the forest.

Las cocoa drink and chocolate powder as well as low-alcohol drinks, or straight without it, have increased by 33% in the last decade, while beer with less alcohol, 25%, like bar chocolate and butter and other animal fats. However, cava, champagne and sparkling wines have grown by 28%.

What else Lamb meat consumption has decreased38%, followed by wild boar and game, rabbit or horse meat, 33%. And from 30 to 24% they decrease sugarVegetable drinks and juices, spirits and wines, bread and sliced ​​bread, seafood, whole milk and processed meats. Among them vegetableInterestingly, during all these years the purchase of lettuce, spinach, celery, and other green and fruit vegetables has decreased by 24%.

If you are curious to know how much the average household spent last year on food and non-alcoholic drinks at 5,333 euros. This represents 16.4% of the budget. Consumption of meat (3.6% of total expenditure), bread and cereals (2.2%), milk, cheese and eggs (2.1%), legumes, vegetables and potatoes (1.8%), fish (1.8%) and fruits ( 1.6%) was the most appropriate.

These data are interesting because on the one hand we eat more of those snacks than we can very bad for healthand on the other hand we drink less wine and smoke less, which is good for health.

And with meat it happens that pork goes up, beef goes down and we’re still buying less healthy meat like wild boar and game in general, which although they don’t carry an ecological certificate, you can say they are. “native” because of its wild breeding.

Also striking is the change in taste Vegetable and fruit areasome notices increase their sales while others, like the classic lettuceyou seem to like a little and eat a little.

Lost whims of the market? It must be said that the statistics were made through questions to the population, but no distinction was made between organic and conventional foods. It would be very interesting to have that data, we will get it.