The 1950’s American housewife was the quintessential multi-tasker. She was highly-efficient, creative, solution-focused, smart, sharp, and savvy. She was a wife, a mother, a counselor, a purchasing agent, an interior decorator, a chef, a budgeter, a party planner, a maid, and a laundress – all under one residential roof. The kitchen was the gathering area in her home. It’s where cakes were baked, dinners were prepared, school lunches were packed, and a hot breakfast was served. Although she excelled at all her roles and wore each hat confidently, it was her skills in grocery shopping that brought all those other responsibilities together. After all, those family dinners around the dining table every night didn’t just happen by chance. They were well-planned and lovingly-prepared after an agenda-based venture to the grocery shop. Want to grocery shop like a 1950’s housewife? Here’s how: