Friday, May 25, 2007

Your food bill in 1958

Food & beverages
Bacon, sliced, .75/lb
Baked beans, B & M, .49/two 18 oz jars
Beef, chuck steak, .49/lb
Bisquick, .43/40 oz pkg
Blueberries, Jersey Fresh, .29/pt
Bologna, .53/lb
Broccoli, .29/bunch
Bread, Jane Parker A & P, .19-.25/loaf
Cake, Jane Parker A & P, orange chiffon, .49-.59/each
Cake mix, Betty Crocker, marble, .31/20 oz pkg
Candy, M & Ms, .25/6 oz cello pkg
Cereal, Kelloggs, Variety pack, .35/10 pack
Cheese, Kraft, Velveeta, .27/8 oz pkg
Coffee, Eight O'Clock, .73/lb
Eggs, .55-.57/dozen
Fish, Cap'n John's, frozen cod fillet, .39/lb pkg
Fish, Chicken of the Sea, tuna. .35/7 oz can
French fries, Ideal, frozen, .29/2 pkgs
Fritos, .19/4 oz bag
Ice cream, Fresh pack, .79/half gallon
Junket Rennet Powder, .37/3 pkgs
Juice, Dole, Pineapple, .27.two 18 oz jars
Juice, Hawaiian Punch, .93/4 oz jar
Ketchup, Pride of the Farm, .15/14 oz bottle
Lemons, .25/6
Maple syrup, Vermont Maid, .5/24 ox bottle
Onions, .05/lb
Pie, Jane Parker A & P, cherry, .49/each
Pie crust, Betty Crocker, stick, .36/two 10 oz pkgs
Rice, Carolina, white, .53/3 lbs
Soda, Coca Cola, .33/six 6 oz bottles
Sugar, .49/5 lbs
Watermelon, .03/lb
TV Dinner, Swanson, chicken or pot roast, .59/11 oz pkg
Waffles, Nifty, .24/two 5 oz pkgs
Yogurt, Dannon, .35/two 8 oz cups

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I do not recognise much on your shopping list - but I am really finding your 1950's posts and pictures really interesting

Well done Patsy - brilliant

Annie said...

I'm sure, Patsy, that you've heard about the people who have taken up the challenge to buy their weekly groceries at the food stamp rate of $26.00/week/per person. It wure would have been an easier challenge to meet back then (of course, there were no food stamps back then).

dot said...

Looks to me like canned tuna is the thing that has gone up the least. I can still find cans for 50 cents.
Of course back then we thought the prices were high also.

Anonymous said...

Back then we had Ike, and farming was a bad thing to be in...as he was building interstates so our country to look like Germany. There is an irony in there as he defeated them.

We had hope in 1960 that we would get Kennedy. I was just in grade school, but I felt the new hope my father had for a new president...and hell did come as we got Nixon instead.

By the early 1960s Daddy's health fell and he was in the VA hospital with a mental breakdown. I despise all those Republicans who helped put him there.

Lots of parents are falling apart today. But many are so silly they can not even see that we are falling from a 100 story building.
Sis 3