What a family of four ate in the 1950s in a year
Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 08:35:59 AM PDT
This is fascinating. It's a picture of what a family of four in Cleveland ate for one year in the early 1950s.
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The Cleveland family shown in the photo below was surrounded by enough food to feed a typical American family of four for a year in the early 1950s. Mr. Czekalinski, the father, earned about $30,000 a year (in today’s dollars) at a Du Pont plant. The family spent more than a quarter of that on food alone ...
You will find items labeled Crisco, Albro, Wheaties, Sunnyfield, Beech-Nut and Jack Frost – but no Coke, Oreos or Doritos. How did this family survive?
See below for the complete grocery list.
Check out how small the cart is, the tons of sugar and shortening and flour and meat but also lots of fruit and veggies.
What do you think MotherTalkers? Healthier than what we eat now or not?
Here's the complete grocery list for a year:
Evaporated milk, 56 cans
Cheese, 20 pounds
Butter, 56 pounds
Margarine, 21 pounds
Milk, 698 quarts
Peaches, 3 bushels
Grapes, 2 boxes
Eggs, 131 dozen
Apples, 2 crates
Oranges, 2 crates
Cantaloupes, 1 crate
Lemons, 1 crate
Watermelons, 2
Plums, 1 box
Bananas, 1 stalk
Peaches, 20 cans
Cherries, 11 cans
Frozen corn, 2 cases
Frozen orange juice, 48 cans
Shortening, 72 pounds
Flour, 450 pounds
Dried fruit, 8 packages
Sugar, 350 pounds
Pears, 15 cans
Bread, 180 loaves
Tomatoes, 15 baskets
Potatoes, 690 pounds
Beans, 3 baskets
Radishes, 1 basket
Squash, 1 basket
Cucumbers, 1 basket
Beets, 3 baskets
Ice cream, 8½ gallons
Lettuce, 2 crates
Cauliflower, 1 crate
Cabbage, 1 crate
Carrots, 1 crate
Celery, 1 crate
Peas, 1 bushel
Onions, 1 sack
Orange juice, 11 cans
Spinach, 22 cans
Sauerkraut, 12 cans
Cereal, 48 packages
Coffee, 39 pounds
Tea, 12 pounds
Ham, 144 pounds
Pork loins, 132 pounds
Saddle lamb, 15 pounds
Saddle veal, 30 pounds
Carp, 25 pounds
Salmon, 20 pounds
Chickens, 31
Turkeys, 2
Beef, 300 pounds
