Home economics schoolbooks and supplementary textbooks for Finnish comprehensive schools were investigated. The findings were follows: 1. Three kinds of schoolbooks and 12 kinds of supplementary textbooks for home economics are published from 3 companies in Finland. 2. The home economics teacher decides whether or not to adopt these books. The schoolbooks and the supplementary textbooks that they adopt are distributed to all students for free of charge. 3. The schoolbooks were composed of contents about family relationships, food, washing and cleaning, consumer education, and environmental education. 4. The pages with content about food are 68〜74%. Especially, the recipes for many kinds of dishes, such as bread, and cake are included in these schoolbooks. 5. The contents of the schoolbooks are concrete and practical. 6. Most of the supplementary textbooks are about food. 7. The schoolbooks and supplementary textbooks of home economics for Finnish Comprehensive schools correspond to the purpose of Finnish basic education and also to the framework curriculum for the comprehensive schools in 1994.