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How much money
do teenagers spend on food?

Since food is an important factor for young people, they also spend a great
amount of money on it. Statistics show that with 46.9% of young people’s
purchasing power, eating and drinking is the third most important month-
ly expense for young people. Another statistic shows the exact dates and
amounts of spending on food and drink:

Spending 0 to 10 11 to 25 25 to 50 51 to 100 Over 100
Areas Euros Euros Euros Euros Euros

Eating
and 26,3 % 46,4 % 14,5 % 9,9 % 2,9 %
Drinking

Example: Purchasing power of young people in France.

Most of the French students who answered the questionnaire on the topic
have between 10-20 euros pocket money a week. About 60 % of them don‘t
buy food with their pocket money but when they do, it is only because they
are hungry or they buy cakes biscuits and crisps. About 50% of them eat
crisps or sweets several times a week.

n fact, in France, young people bagels, fish and chips). However,
I tend to have less than the tra- studies on teens diet of the Pro-
ditional three meals a day, as they gramme de recherche AlimAdos de
often skip breakfast. They eat more l‘Agence nationale de la recherche,
ready-made dishes (e.g. pizza, sand- show that teen age is the moment
wiches, snacks, fast-food) and „glo- when people are experimentint, i.e.
balized food“ (e.g. sushi, cupcakes, with a greater flexibility and dis-

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