'food spending' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the amount of money spent on food, for example: "My food spending has been high this month due to grocery store sales."
But the food spending was most interesting to me.
Examine the role of food spending behaviors and perceptions on fruit and vegetable intake among preadolescent children and their parents.
Food spending had dipped from £3.27 a person a day in July to £2.10 in October.
Food spending has become a flimsy reference point in 2009 groceries accounted for just 7.8% of Americans' spending.
"We have squeezed family food spending from about 1,500 renminbi to 1,000 renminbi a month," he said.
Clothing and food spending largely stabilized, while expenses for building materials, health care goods and general merchandise continued to fall.
This magazine was published from 1991-2002 and contains nontechnical, general interest articles and historical data on food supply, food demand, food prices, and food spending.
This magazine was published from 1978-1990 and contains nontechnical, general interest articles and historical data on food supply, food demand, food prices, and food spending.
A new study of the pet industry by Dillon Media reports that those making more than $100,000 a year increased their share of pet-food spending and now account for about a third of the total market.
The BRC's Richard Lim, adds: "Our figures show that around 20% of all non-food spending is online and we're expecting this number to continue to rise.
Similarly, the proportion of households reporting total OOP payments above 40% of non-food spending is 11.4%.
