Do you feel like you, perhaps your household, spend more or less time with food-related activities?

"Eating and drinking, food preparation, clean-up related to food preparation, grocery shopping, the time doing grocery shopping, purchasing non-grocery food that, could be from restaurants also the time and the wait that you spend related to purchasing those foods," said USDA Researcher Eliana Zeballos.

He said a recent study indicates changes in patterns over a three year period, 2014-2017, from one decade prior. For instance, Americans eat food daily on average, in less time than the precious decade, yet take more time each day in food preparation, clean up, and grocery shopping. Other take-aways from the study:

"There is more men and they spend more time preparing food, but the majority of meal preppers are still women," Zeballos noted.

The trend is similar regarding gender in who conducts food clean up, and who does grocery shopping in the household.

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