Four tools that do the arithmetic the book leaves to you: 1933 money in today's dollars, the period substitution for whatever you are out of, any recipe scaled to the number at your table, and the prices the Bureau of Home Economics actually published.
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The book uses the Bureau of Labor Statistics consumer price index: one 1933 dollar is worth about 23 of today's. Type in either box.
The four model diets the Bureau costed at 1931-32 retail prices, and what each comes to in today's money and per day.
| Diet | 1933 | Today | Per day |
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The cheapest of the four, the restricted diet for emergency use, is the one the recipes in this book were written to fill out.
Pick what you are out of. Every substitution below is quoted from a recipe in the book, which took it from a dated government document.
Choose a recipe and how many are at the table. The quantities are worked out again for you. The method stays in the book, on the page the recipe is printed.
Only prices the Bureau of Home Economics put in print, with the document each came from. Nothing here is estimated.
| What | Price then | Today |
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Prices moved a great deal between 1929 and 1939, and between one city and another. That is why the book prices no recipe: the Bureau would not either.
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