Source: CAROLINA-VIRGINIA FARMER, 7/28/11

Consumers are responding to increasing food prices by dining at home more and eating less beef and pork and more chicken, especially more economical cuts of chicken, food trends specialists told the National Chicken Council's Chicken Marketing Seminar last week.

Americans are eating fewer meals in restaurants and more meals in their homes as the economy continues to falter and incomes remain stretched, said Harry Balzer, chief food industry analyst and vice president at NPD Group in Chicago, Ill.

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