We are spoilt for grocery choice thesdays and don't realise it.

Your not counting what she already had at home.

A different time totally. They simply didn't need to buy certain things.

Milk was delivered to your home! I know this because it was happening even in the 1960s!

Your neighbors gave you excess food they couldn't eat! Like from their trees. Our neighbors where going that as well in the 1960s.

Then there was your own garden. I grew green peppers and tomatoes as a kid!

My father was a baker. He brought enough pastries home to feed school.

Just try to do that today!

They grow trees now that the fruit is inedible. Fertilizer costs serious money when back then they were glad you took it away from the farms.

That's a very odd collection of food. Doesn't look like enough vegetables for four people for a week. And no one needs that much salt in one week. A smaller packet than that lasts three of us in this house over a month and I use some almost every day to bake bread rolls. And they have thirty six eggs which seems like rather a lot, especially as there is no flour with which to bake a cake. If she's not baking why does she have what looks like a couple of kilos of caster sugar?

Which country is it from?

when I was little Grandpa would send me to the store with 5 dollars and I'd come home with 3 bags of groceries. can't do that now, too many security cameras

A week's worth for four? Really? The family can't have eaten much at all, even if the children had smaller appetites than their parents'. Where was this photograph taken - Britain, still partially under WW2 rationing in 1947?

Those tins hold about two portions, three at a stretch.

That ration of fresh vegetables is barely one day's, for four people. There is no fresh fruit, but some of the tins might contain fruit.

Any bread? I can't make out the labels on the three packets right front.

The bags along the front are not labelled, or their labels are hidden. Did they contain flour? If so that would accord with the caster-sugar, many eggs, a surplus of salt and three packs of what might be cooking-fat on the left, as baking ingredients.

I love the context of this picture. Just 2 years removed from the war, and an American housewife only had to spend $12.50 to feed her whole family, for an entire week!, with great variety and abundance. That's amazing

i think about rations quite often. yes, we are much better off today.

And the food was real

Lol now it takes at least 10 times that much to get groceries that can feed a family of 4 and a pet on a weekly basis. Before taxes, tariffs, and other fees obviously, and assuming you're not buying them in the middle of nowhere.

You’re not considering a lot of differences in the way people eat. And cost is just part of it. Culturally speaking, not everyone had the same diet even back then.

In 1947, the average annual income for a full-time urban employee in the United States was around $2,678
$223/ month
So 1/5 of the salary was spent on groceries.

I remember when meat used to come packaged in the paper like that

That’s a lot of canned food though too

Look all that non GMO food. Real healthy that is now extinct.

It's All Genetically Modified Organisms, Chemically Loaded Down and Farm Animals That Are Pumped Full Of Vaccines Today

No Real Food Anymore!

Notice no soda, no chips, no beer, and crap but whole foods