30 Foods That Were Normal in '70s America — Did Anyone Else Eat Like This?

Jell-O salads that wobbled, foil trays in front of the television, and a boxed dinner that made it into more than one in four American homes in a single year. This is a trip around the American supper table of the 1970s: 30 foods that were normal then, from the pantry cans to the lunchbox cakes, while prices climbed and the minimum wage tried to keep up. You will hear how a few of them were made, what they cost in minutes of work, and what became of them. Did anyone else eat like this? What was the food your house ate on repeat, and what did your mother call it? Tell me in the comments. Sources and references General Mills, "How Helper got its start" The Campbell's Company, "7 things you didn't know about SpaghettiOs" and "10 things you didn't know about Green Bean Casserole" National Park Service, "Underwood Deviled Ham Cans" Pop-Tarts, "Our Story" NASA Technical Reports Server, technology-transfer report on Food Sticks, 1980 Kraft Heinz, "Cool Whip Celebrates 50 Years of Iconic Treats," 2016 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "Poking around the history of a popular cake," 2018 Federal Reserve History, "Nixon Ends Convertibility and Announces Wage/Price Controls" and "Oil Shock of 1973-74" and "Oil Shock of 1978-79" USDA, "A Short History of SNAP" South Dakota Department of Health, "WIC Turns 50," 2024 U.S. Department of Labor, "A Brief History" U.S. House Office of the Law Revision Counsel, historical amendments to 29 USC 206, 2017 edition #1970s #Nostalgia #AmericanFood