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Originally Posted by tony404
actually when we were kids the grocery bill was alot cheaper.We were talking about it this weekend. MY mother said I dont know how families do it now its so expensive to shop. When you were kids , only your father worked and we ate 3 meals a day at home 7 days a week and 6 of those meals had meat. My mother said I dont know how families do it now.
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I know this isn't a brand new thread but.....our mother's memory and the facts are at odds.
Sure in terms of spending $X per week at the grocery store, things were cheaper then....but as a percentage of a families income, food is cheaper now than at any time in human history.
The numbers may be a little off because there has been a spike in food prices just this year, but speaking in terms of the last decade or so.....cheapest food and biggest variety of food in human history.