The purpose of this survey was to study nutrition knowledge dietary attitude purpose value of meal and monthly food expenditure in the house wives. The survey was conducted from September 1 to October 20 in 1998. The results were summarized as follows. Nutrition knowledge of the 30s and 40s group were higher than that of the other group. Dietary attitude of the 20s group was lower than that of the other wives. House wives tended to choose food for the pleasure of its taste and intake of nutrients. There was a significant positive correlation between nutrition knowledge and dietary attitude. The diet-ary attitude and nutrition knowledge were significant positive correlations with food diversity. There was negative correlation between age and nutrition knowledge.