TABLE VII

Suggested Quantities for Low-Cost Family Food Plan and
Per Capita Civilian Food Supply,
United States, 1943 (a)

(a) Food plans are for quantities of food as brought into the kitchen; estimates of supplies are based on disappearance data. Therefore, for food groups which include a large proportion of food products which are mixtures of one or more food groups, the two sets of figures are not strictly comparable. These food groups are principally: flour and cereals, which in the form of baked goods may contain milk, eggs, fats, and sugars; sugars, sirups and preserves, which in the form of sugar are used in canned fruits and soft drinks (not accounted for in diet plans); fats and oils, eggs, and dry skim milk, which may be used in baked goods; nuts used in candies: cereal products used in sausages, bologna, etc.

(b) Preliminary.

(c) Non-fat solids equivalent.

(d) Includes butter, bacon, salt pork as well as other fats and oil.

SOURCE: U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics
(Special Tabulations)

TABLE VIII

GRADE OF DIET IN RELATION TO FAMILY
COMPOSITION AND INCOME

Percentage of households having diets of specified grades,
village and city families in 2 regions, 1936-7, (a)
(Households of white non-relief families that include a husband
and wife, both native-born)

(a) Source of Data: U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Bureau of Home Economics, Food Records, Consumer Purchase Study.

(b) New England, Middle Atlantic and North Central, Plains and Mountain, and Pacific Regions.

(c) Excellent diets meet in all respects specification of liberal standard.

Good diets exceed the minimum standard by at least a 50% margin but by less than 100% in the case of vitamins.

Fair diets meet the minimum standard in all respects but exceed it by less than 50% margin.

Poor diets fail to meet the minimum standard in one or more respects. Because there were relatively few excellent diets, those graded excellent and good have been classed together in this table.

TABLE IX

Distributions of Families with Weekly Per Capita

Expenditure for Food of $1.25 $1.87 According to
Grade of Diet and Region

SOURCE: H. K. Stiebling and E. F. Phipard, "Diets of Families of Employed Wage Earners and Clerical Workers in Cities." U. S. Department of Agriculture, Circular No. 507, p. 74.