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