Abstract:
This study was conducted at the different schools in La Trinidad namely: CCDC and BSU from January to February 2016 to determine the meal students usually eat outside the home, the kind of food prepared outside the home students usually buy, to determine how much they spend every day for food prepared outside the home, the reasons of the students in buying food prepared outside the home, the factors affecting expenditure of students on food prepared outside the home, and the effect of selected demographic profile on expenditure on food prepared outside the home.
The data were gathered from 500 students; 300 from BSU and 200 from CCDC. Majority of the respondent (88.8%) eat budget meals and street foods for their lunch. Majority of the respondents spent below 50 pesos daily on food prepared outside the home. Students spend an average of ₱ 69.38 daily on food prepared outside the home.
Most of the respondents’ main reasons in buying food prepared outside the home are: they do not have enough time to prepare their food, affordable price/ economical and feel exhausted and tired. The factors considered by the students in buying food prepared outside the home are taste, personal health and price of the food. Regression Analysis on the factors affecting expenditure of college students shows that monthly allowance significantly affect the expenditure of college students at 0.001 while the type of school and age significantly affect the expenditure of college students at 0.05. Sex and the location of boarding house do not have significant effect on the expenditure of college students on food prepared outside the home.
