Fast Food Eats Up Your Money

Madeline Holler — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:34:00 GMT

Sure, fast food isn't eating up your budget, since you don't eat it ... ever!

But apparently bagged-up, drive-thru fare takes a bigger bite out of every other family's monthly income than stuff we might consider good for kids.

According to a market research group, mothers of kids under 15 years old spend more on fast food than they do on books, music, movies and video games ... combined. What the study doesn't say is exactly what percent of the household budget.The also don't define "fast food." I mean, I'd agree my family -- with our once a week take-out habit, usually pizza -- spends according to the reported pattern, because we just don't drop a lot on the other stuff. We're big users of the library and the video games are mostly for the grown-ups.

Also in the report are spending differences according to the child's gender: girls get more clothes, boys get more video games. Not a big surprise.

Sound about right? How much fast food do you secretly feed your kids?

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Fast Food Eats Up Your Money