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