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On 21 Aug 2024 02:19:31 GMT, Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid>
wrote:

>It's an interesting menu.  It's also the tail end of WWII, so maybe
>shelves aren't exactly bustling.

Atlanta Journal originally published her story, then Life Magazine
made a notice of it

LIFE Nov 10, 1947: Scroll down page
https://books.google.com/books?id=p1EEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA31

    This is How One Family Eats on $12.50 a Week

If all American housewives had the spunk and ingenuity of the woman on
this page - Mrs. Hamilton Williams of Atlanta, Ga. -- inflation would
be less of a swear word. Mrs. Williams, wife of a high-school teacher,
allows herself $12.50 a week to buy all her groceries except milk. On
this she manages to feed herself, her husband, her 4-year-old twins
and even the family cat (oposite page). The job takes considerable
doing. Mrs. Williams is an avid student of grocery ads and shop
windows (above). She limits herself to one shopping expedition a week,
at which she weighs every penny against the family's full-week
appetite. She serves no meat at lunch and limits her evening entrees
to such items as meat loaf, hamburgers and chili. yet she manages to
provide two desserts daily and such frills as cookies for a party
(below). When she described her budget in the Atlanta Journal
recently, less enterprising housewives sent in letters of disbelief,
and the city's C.I.O. got to work on an official denial that any
family could eat so cheaply. But Mrs. Williams, the 1947 heroine of
the Battle of the Budget, carried merrily on.
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I don't know if nutritional information was available, or  known back
then