Staple food definition
Staple food means those food items intended for home preparation and consumption which include meat, poultry, fish, breadstuffs, cereals, vegetables, fruits, fruit and vegetable juices, and dairy products. Accessory food items, such as coffee, tea, cocoa, carbonated and uncarbonated drinks, candy, condiments, and spices are not staple foods for the purposes of qualifying a firm to participate in the Food Stamp Program as a retail food store.
Staple food means those food items intended for home preparation and consumption, which includes meat, poultry, fish, bread and bread stuffs, cereals, vegetables, fruits, fruit and vegetable juices, and dairy products.
Staple food items" means meat, poultry, fish, bread, breadstuff, cereals, vegetables, fruit, vegetable and fruit juices, and dairy products, excluding items such as coffee, tea, cocoa, carbonated and uncarbonated beverages, condiments, and spices.
More Definitions of Staple food
Staple food. (red bar) means the staple cereals, and non-staple food (orange bar) is anything else. Non-staple foods for most people most of the time are the common items from the ubiquitous cowpeas to vegetables to oil. For the poorer households they rarely stretch beyond this: meat, for instance, is consumed at festivals (sometimes as a gift from wealthier kin or neighbours) but is otherwise rarely consumed, even poultry, unless it is the treat of a kebab (brochet) bought on market day. Indeed for poorer people even vegetables - even onions - are not purchased without thought, because they have to compete with other needs, for instance daily/weekly household purchases (white bar) which include a plethora of items from condiments to matches to soap – which, as we see for the Very Poor, collectively amount to a substantial proportion of total household expenditure. This leaves little room for other basic expenditure, whether on clothes (pink bar), or education and medical treatment (yellow bar), let alone more elective expenditure on for instance social obligations – transport for visits to kin, contributions to baptisms etc. (under the ‘other’ grey bar).