PEOPLE are being more careful about their spending when it comes to food, leaving the industry in a state one food writer describes as “erratic.”

Newsday spoke to a few people in Port of Spain about what they usually had for lunch and what they buy when they go out to eat.

One woman said she simply cannot afford to buy meals. In fact, it is the main reason she only eats breakfast and dinner, which she prepares herself. And most of the time, as she is usually tired after working all day, dinner was cheap, easy and filling like packaged ramen, pasta or potatoes.