What were food prices in 1940s?
Here are some examples of food prices in the 1940s in the United States, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics:
1940:
- Milk (one gallon): 48 cents
- Eggs (one dozen): 31 cents
- Coffee (one pound): 52 cents
- Lettuce (one pound): 11 cents
- Wheat flour (one pound): 6 cents
- Butter (one pound): 32 cents
- Bread (one pound loaf): 8 cents
- Hamburger (one pound): 22 cents
- Bananas (one pound): 11 cents
- Onions (one pound): 3 cents
- Rice (one pound): 8 cents
- Sugar (one pound): 8 cents
- Bacon (one pound): 29 cents
- Oranges (one dozen): 34 cents
1945, the last full year of World War II:
Bread, white (1 lb.):15 cents
Coffee (1 lb.):42 cents
Flour, self-rising (5 lbs.):69 cents
Milk, fresh (½ gal.):27 cents
Ground beef round (1 lb.):31 cents
Eggs, grade A (doz.):48 cents
Sugar (5 lbs.):49 cents
Salt pork (1 lb.):31 cents
Butter (1 lb.):47 cents
Tomatoes (2 lbs., No. 2 can):22 cents
Peanut butter (1 lb.):35 cents
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