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Spending increased across nearly all food-at-home (FAH) categories in first year of pandemic, but returned to closer to prepandemic levels by end of 2022

  • Food Markets & Prices
Horizontal bar chart showing percent changes in spending by food-at-home categories from same period in 2019 for March 15, 2020–March 7, 2021, March 14, 2021–March 13, 2022, and March 30, 2022–January 1, 2023.

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While total annual U.S. food spending levels had recovered from pandemic-related shocks as of 2021, some pandemic-induced changes in what people were buying for food at home and where and how they were purchasing food away from home continued throughout 2022.

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