Even households with new income are watching their food budgets.

The parents were thus able to eat their special treat in peace and without breaking the family's food budget.

"Right now I'm taking money out of my food budget to cover Christmas."

That food budget is $100 a week "and a lot of coupons."

"It really, really makes a great big difference in my food budget," she said.

At $12 each, the tour would leave us with an $11 food budget.

A dollar a day was a typical food budget for a family of four or five in those days.

"Because of those four reasons, the food budget is the first one to go, after families meet their fixed expenses."

You may not have noticed but our food budget is shot to pieces since the last price increase.

Also, can anyone give me an approximate cost of food budget for a 10-day trip, 2 people?