Grocery List January 1936

Here is my dad's grocery list. I don't know if it's what stuff cost or what he bought. You decide. Because it is all alphabetized, I'm wondering if he just went to the store and priced stuff? That would be really weird because I never in my life knew him to go to the only store on the reservation, which was owned by his friend! Or was it their budget for the preceding December or the whole year?

Apples .75 Apple Butter .15 Bread $1.60 Beans .50 Butter $1.26 Baking Powder .25
Coffee $1.25 Cheese .50 Choreboy .10 Candy .10 Cookies .30 Corn Beef .20
Cereal .15 Corn .25 Cigarettes .15 Cigars 2 for .55 Cool Aid .40 Cake .25
Crackers .45 Bacon .45 Eggs $1.89 Bananas .48 Flour $1.15 Grapefruit .60
Gum .05 Hamburger .40 Jam .55 Jello .15 Kodak film .30 Lemons .10
Miscellaneous $1.20 Magazines .40 Milk $2.80 Meat $2.15 Peanut Butter .25
Pickles .15 Paper .10 Pork Sausage $1.05 Peas .30 Peanuts .05 Potatoes $1.00
Rice .10 oranges $1.30 onions .15 razor blades .25 roast .45 syrup .50 Soap .25
Soup .60 Shortening .65 Sugar .65 Sandwich Spread .30 Sardines .25 Steak $1.35
Salmon .65 Tweezers .10 Thread .15 Vanilla .25 Weinies $1.44 Debt to Massey (store owner - m) $2585 (for a year? - m)
(He must have given up the cigars, I never knew him to smoke one. Regarding the tweezers, he shaved, but on the margins of his diligently read newspapers, there were always whiskers that he plucked out with tweezers as he read. I would guess from the price of the milk, it wasn't purchased by the gallon - m)