[C19fan]

Remove welfare and food stamps back to the 1929 level and recalculate that and see what you get.

You ask and you shall receive. Food expenditures as a percentage of money income excl gov't assistance: 1929: 19.3% and 2012 11.4%.

[Beagle8U]

OK, well, it’s closer.

[Marie Antoinette]

I am going to throw family size into the mix here. We have a large family and we are much closer to the 20% number. We feed 11. Families are much smaller on average than in 1929.