25 Grocery Secrets That Fed Six on $17 a Week

25 Grocery Secrets That Fed Six on $17 a Week Almost everything you picture about the 1950s kitchen is wrong. The magazines sold you a smiling woman in an apron pulling a golden roast from a gleaming new oven, a full cart, a full freezer, money that never ran short. The reality that ran the house was quieter, sharper, and built on arithmetic she did in her head at the meat counter. Resources: United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, Handbook of Labor Statistics: 1957 Edition – U.S. Government Printing Office https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/h... United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index Detailed Report, 1955 – U.S. Department of Labor https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/c... U.S. Department of Agriculture, Household Food Consumption Survey, 1955: Report No. 1 – Agricultural Research Service https://www.ars.usda.gov/ARSUserFiles... U.S. Department of Agriculture, Home Canning of Fruits and Vegetables (Farmers’ Bulletin / Agriculture Information Bulletin) – National Agricultural Library https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Michigan State University Libraries, Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project – including mid‑20th‑century frugal and “budget-wise” home economics pamphlets https://d.lib.msu.edu/fa "Copyright Disclaimer" Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, education or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.