A new measure of U.S. food expenditures, called the total expenditures (TE) series, was developed w reconcile the conceptual differences between two other widely used measures of food expenditures.' The TE accounts bridge the conceptual differences between the personal consumption expenditures (PCE) estimated by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the marketing bill series published by the Economics, Statistics, and Cooperatives Service (ESCS), USDA.