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

A housewife poses with a week's worth of groceries in 1947 (except milk). It cost $12.50. Of this she feeds herself, husband, 2 kids and a cat.

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come2gether · 46-50, M

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