Food Prices and Rationing Points
March 1943
News and Observer, Raleigh
| Food | Price | Ration points |
| Apples | 33¢/2 pounds | 20 points |
| Bisquick | 37¢/box | 18 points |
| Bread | 10¢/loaf | 0 points |
| Bugles snacks | 19¢/box | 5 points |
| Butter | 22¢/pound | 20 points |
| Cake mix | 18¢/box | 18 points |
| Cheerios | 14¢/box | 7 points |
| Cheese | 35¢/pound | 12 points |
| Coffee | 24¢/pound | 42 points |
| Coke | 5¢/bottle | 10 points |
| Cookies | 22¢/box | 22 points |
| Corn | 13¢/can | 18 points |
| Crackers | 19¢/box | 5 points |
| Eggs | 35¢/dozen | 0 points |
| Flour | 66¢/10 pounds | 18 points |
| Grits | 9¢/box | 3 points |
| Ground beef | 27¢/pound | 0 points |
| Jelly | 24¢/jar | 40 points |
| Lemon juice | 27¢/bottle | 9 points |
| Luncheon meat | 33¢/pound | 0 points |
| Margarine | 17¢/pound | 2 points |
| Mayonnaise | 20¢/jar | 0 points |
| Milk (evaporated) | 9¢/can | 1 point |
| Noodles | 5¢/box | 18 points |
| Orange juice | 19¢/can | 0 points |
| Peanut butter | 25¢/jar | 9 points |
| Popsicles | 29¢/box | 22 points |
| Potatoes | 39¢/10 pounds | 0 points |
| Rice | 10¢/pound | 3 points |
| Sausage | 35¢/pound | 0 points |
| Shrimp | 53¢/pound | 12 points |
| Soup | 9¢/can | 10 points |
| Spinach | 15¢/can | 18 points |
| Steak | 40¢/pound | 13 points |
| Strawberries | 28¢/pound | 0 points |
| Sugar | 31¢/5 pounds | 80 points |
| Syrup | 23¢/jar | 80 points |
| Tomato juice | 10¢/can | 20 points |
| Tuna | 24¢/can | 6 points |