We spend less of our money on groceries than we did 30 years ago.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
Credit: Lam Thuy Vo / NPR
The way we spend our grocery money has also changed.
We now spend a much bigger share of our grocery money on processed foods, which includes things like frozen dinners, canned soups and snacks. We spend much less on meat, largely because meat is much cheaper than it was 30 years ago.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
Credit: Lam Thuy Vo / NPR
“We’ve seen major restructuring in poultry, pork and beef industries that has allowed efficiencies and brought down the cost,” Walter Falcon, a Stanford economist who’s an expert on food, told me.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
Credit: Lam Thuy Vo / NPR
Here’s one more chart for you if you want to compare prices then and now:
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
Credit: Lam Thuy Vo / NPR
Day: June 18, 2012
Graduation Party Foods: Colorful, Delicious, and Mouth-Watering!
Served with love at the graduation garden party of my firstborn on June 9, 2012. Most of them prepared at home, including the fabulous veggie and fruit platters!
On This Day: June 18
Updated June 17, 2012, 2:28 pm
On June 18, 1948, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights adopted its International Declaration of Human Rights.
Go to article »On June 18, 1884, Edouard Daladier, the French politician who was a signer of the Munich Pact of 1938, was born. Following his death on Oct. 10, 1970, his obituary appeared in The Times.
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On This Date
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1812 The United States declared war against Britain. 1815 British and Prussian troops defeated the French under Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo in Belgium. 1873 Suffragist Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election. 1928 Aviator Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean as she completed a flight from Newfoundland to Wales in about 21 hours. 1948 The United Nations Commission on Human Rights adopted the International Declaration of Human Rights. 1948 Columbia Records unveiled its new long-playing, 33 1/3 rpm phonograph record. 1979 President Jimmy Carter and Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev signed the SALT II strategic arms limitation treaty in Vienna. 1983 Astronaut Sally K. Ride became America’s first woman in space as she and four colleagues blasted off aboard the space shuttle Challenger. 2002 A Palestinian detonated a nail-studded bomb in a Jerusalem bus, killing 19 passengers and himself. 2004 European Union leaders agreed on the first constitution for the bloc’s 25 members. 2006 Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori was elected the first female presiding bishop for the Episcopal Church, the U.S. arm of the global Anglican Communion. Current Birthdays
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Rock musician Paul McCartney turns 70 years old today.
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Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., turns 75 years old today.
AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
1939 Lou Brock, Baseball Hall of Famer, turns 73 1942 Roger Ebert, Movie critic, turns 70 1950 Mike Johanns, U.S. senator, R-Neb., turns 62 1952 Carol Kane, Actress, turns 60 1952 Isabella Rossellini, Actress, turns 60 1961 Alison Moyet, Rock singer, turns 51 1963 Bruce Smith, Football Hall of Famer, turns 49 1976 Alana de la Garza, Actress (“Law and Order”), turns 36 1980 Antonio Gates, Football player, turns 32
Historic Birthdays
Edouard Daladier 6/18/1884 – 10/10/1970 French premier; signed the Munich Pact in 1938.Go to obituary »
80 Bartolommeo Ammannati 6/18/1511 – 4/22/1592
Italian sculptor and architect55 Feofan Prokopovich 6/18/1681 – 9/19/1736
Russian Orthodox archbishop; important ally of Peter the Great81 William Lassell 6/18/1799 – 10/5/1880
English astronomer71 Edward Wyllis Scripps 6/18/1854 – 3/12/1926
American newspaper publisher72 Henry Clay Folger 6/18/1857 – 6/11/1930
American industrialist and philanthropist69 Nicolae Iorga 6/18/1871 – 11/28/1940
Romanian scholar, statesman and historian82 James Montgomery Flagg 6/18/1877 – 5/27/1960
American illustrator and poster artist53 Philip Barry 6/18/1896 – 12/3/1949
American dramatist17 Anastasia 6/18/1901 – 7/17/1918
Russian daughter of Tsar Nicholas II
June 18
MORNING
“And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost.”
Acts 2:4Rich were the blessings of this day if all of us were filled with the Holy Ghost. The consequences of this sacred filling of the soul it would be impossible to overestimate. Life, comfort, light, purity, power, peace; and many other precious blessings are inseparable from the Spirit’s benign presence. As sacred oil, he anoints the head of the believer, sets him apart to the priesthood of saints, and gives him grace to execute his office aright. As the only truly purifying water he cleanses us from the power of sin and sanctifies us unto holiness, working in us to will and to do of the Lord’s good pleasure. As the light, he manifested to us at first our lost estate, and now he reveals the Lord Jesus to us and in us, and guides us in the way of righteousness. Enlightened by his pure celestial ray, we are no more darkness but light in the Lord. As fire, he both purges us from dross, and sets our consecrated nature on a blaze. He is the sacrificial flame by which we are enabled to offer our whole souls as a living sacrifice unto God. As heavenly dew, he removes our barrenness and fertilizes our lives. O that he would drop from above upon us at this early hour! Such morning dew would be a sweet commencement for the day. As the dove, with wings of peaceful love he broods over his Church and over the souls of believers, and as a Comforter he dispels the cares and doubts which mar the peace of his beloved. He descends upon the chosen as upon the Lord in Jordan, and bears witness to their sonship by working in them a filial spirit by which they cry Abba, Father. As the wind, he brings the breath of life to men; blowing where he listeth he performs the quickening operations by which the spiritual creation is animated and sustained. Would to God, that we might feel his presence this day and every day.
EVENING
“My Beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies. Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my Beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.”
Song of Solomon 2:16-17Surely if there be a happy verse in the Bible it is this–“My Beloved is mine, and I am his.” So peaceful, so full of assurance, so overrunning with happiness and contentment is it, that it might well have been written by the same hand which penned the twenty-third Psalm. Yet though the prospect is exceeding fair and lovely–earth cannot show its superior–it is not entirely a sunlit landscape. There is a cloud in the sky which casts a shadow over the scene. Listen, “Until the day break, and the shadows flee away.”
There is a word, too, about the “mountains of Bether,” or, “the mountains of division,” and to our love, anything like division is bitterness. Beloved, this may be your present state of mind; you do not doubt your salvation; you know that Christ is yours, but you are not feasting with him. You understand your vital interest in him, so that you have no shadow of a doubt of your being his, and of his being yours, but still his left hand is not under your head, nor doth his right hand embrace you. A shade of sadness is cast over your heart, perhaps by affliction, certainly by the temporary absence of your Lord, so even while exclaiming, “I am his,” you are forced to take to your knees, and to pray, “Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my Beloved.”
“Where is he?” asks the soul. And the answer comes, “He feedeth among the lilies.” If we would find Christ, we must get into communion with his people, we must come to the ordinances with his saints. Oh, for an evening glimpse of him! Oh, to sup with him tonight!
