Recession Food

I made a stew tonight using chuck steak. Meanwhile, Americans are eating meatloaf... Writing on Bay Area Bites, Amy Sherman cites statistics from the online recipe site/food community, Allrecipes. She writes: "...with over 35 million unique visitors annually, the economic downturn might just be causing Americans to cut back on food spending. Traffic to recipe pages using low-cost ingredients, such as ground beef and pasta, nearly doubled over the past three months." In the Bronx, however, they do things a little differently: how's this Bronx-style food pyramid? (NB: A bodega is a corner store.)