by Olivia Rondeau
Breitbart.com
The vast majority of Texans said their food expenses have risen faster than their income, and nearly half have had to forego buying protein and fresh produce in a recent survey.
No Kid Hungry, a Washington, DC-based nonprofit group operated by the organization Share Our Strength, shared the difficult findings in their Texas Hunger Survey released last week.
A whopping 81 percent of the 1,133 respondents polled in late July said the cost of food is increasing faster than their income, and 76 percent said that affording groceries has become more difficult.
About half of the respondents (49 percent) said they have been buying less protein or no protein at all to remain within their budgets, and 43 percent said the same about fresh produce.