I found a shopping list from 1969

[Trouthallgrapefruit]

Interesting isn’t it!

It looks like a grocery order book. The biro is the order and the pencil (price, extra items) is what the grocer added.

My grandmother used to have one. It was taken to the grocer every week and he made up the box, added the price and any extra items she rang in with (go her - a phone in the 1960s!), and then she paid on delivery and got her book back for next time.

Her handwriting was more like the pencil though. She was born in 1906.

All the lists are heavy on the baking ingredients, lots of cake!

@CosyCoffee @Myhorseishoarse

its exactly like my nan’s writing too.

Yes @IrresponsiblyCertainAboutSexualDimorphism That’s what it is I think, for sure.

Thank you for posting this. I’ve gone off down memory lane…😊

Interestingly precise about baked bean requirements - 1 large tin and 1 small.

Edited to add - no, sorry, 3 and 4.

@jay55 lav roll was rationed by the older generation in our family.

Yes, I reckon it's near Christmas and they're making a Christmas cake and a trifle!

A grocers

The next pages would be informative. They would show whether inflation was a thing or not then at a local shop's level.

Can anyone work out what this cost in decimal money? Then index link it? That would be an eye-opener I think. There is very little processed foods here, but there are some. I think the grapefruit would be lower in real terms now than then. I also think the eggs would be.

For example two dozen eggs at 9 shillings would be 45p in 1969 if my memory is correct. The RPI increase September 1969 to September 2013 is about 5.6% compound per annum or £9.70 today. Sainsbury's sell two dozen eggs for £5.90 (just googled).

Fascinating OP.

What I like about this post is your handwriting. Beautiful script. Rarely seen these days. It goes back to the days when much time was devoted to teaching children handwriting skills in primary school.

The Lurpak ... Oh, the Lurpak... nothing else needs to be reflected upon. I still buy Lurpak today... Nothing else comes close. I blame my mother....

The list is for a grocer shop.

Trout hall grapefruit is still a thing!

I think in fact now looking at it we have a book of lists that begin in 1969 and end in 1971, so this is somewhere within that timeframe

Decimalisation was February 1972 if I remember correctly. Moving to 1/2p increased inflation slightly. All prices were rounded up.

This is the next page for those interested ! 😃

Great find!

The handwriting looks just like my Nanna's!

Is that more marmalade?!

Eggs went up 11% in just a week!

The marmalade is pretty much a weekly feature!

Lux soap flakes! I remember being fascinated by those as a a child ( 1970s)

The baking ingredients might have been for several items on "baking day" plus a week of cooked breakfasts (egg and beans).

Oh no i added the wrong page so don’t panic on the egg inflation 😅
this is the next page…

They’re all very similar lists hence the mistake ! Creatures of habit for sure!