The National Food Survey was the predecessor of the Living Costs and Food Survey, and ran in some form from 1940 to 2000. Survey data from 1974 to 2000 is being provided as Open Data, in the form of tab-separated-value files in zip archive format, together with supporting background material in either tab-separated-value or Portable Document Format files.
More information on the Expenditure and Food Survey, the successor to the National Food Survey, and a link to archived National Food Survey reports for 1997 to 2000, can be found on the Family Food page on the GOV.UK site at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/family-food-statistics.
If you require the datasets in a more accessible format, please contact familyfood@defra.gsi.gov.uk
