"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
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> On 2015-03-09 3:09 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> Quart of soda .25 should now be $1.95 I can get 2 liters as cheap as
>> 78¢ for generic store brand but name brand is $3.29
>>
>> When we first married in 1966, a trip to the grocery store very two
>> weeks was about $20 for 4 bags of groceries. That would be $156 today.
>> Probably not far off.
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> When I was first married in 1973 our weekly one stop shopping was usually
> about $30. We ate well, got lots of fruit and vegetables.nice cuts of meat
> most of the time, though wife did wonders braising the cuts of beef that
> used to be so cheap, like oxtails, short ribs and stewing beef.

Our produce costs when I was a kid were less because we always had a large
garden. We also went berry picking and most years my parents bought a lot
of apples in Eastern Washington.