Table 1.

Affirmative Responses to Food Security Items (n = 610)

	Frequency of Occurrence
Food security item	Any (Sometimes or Often)	Often	Sometimes
Household items
1 Worried that food would run out before I get money or food stamps to buy more	81.0	17.9	63.1
2 Food bought didn't last and I didn't have money to get more	73.6	12.6	61.0
3 We eat the same thing for several days in a row because we only have a few different kinds of food on hand and didn't have money to buy more	65.1	11.0	54.1
4 Ran out of food needed to put together a meal and didn't have money to get more	71.1	11.6	59.5
Adult items
5 Can't afford to eat properly	61.8	10.2	51.6
6 Respondent hungry but didn't eat because couldn't afford enough food	58.5	10.0	48.5
7 Respondent ate less than he/she felt should because didn't have enough money for food	58.8	9.3	49.5
8 Adult(s) cut size or skipped meals last month because not enough money to buy food	60.0	10.7	49.3
Child items1
9 Cannot give child(ren) a balanced meal because can't afford it	59.7	10.1	49.6
10 Child(ren) not eating enough because can't afford enough food	53.7	8.9	44.8
11 Child(ren) are hungry sometimes, but can't afford more food	51.0	8.5	42.6

¹ Included only households with children (n = 484)