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gS3 vEnoi^-grained cereal instead of white refined products.
Whole wheat, oatmeal, rye. biown rice, yellow cornmeul, enricV d flour,
wheat germ, anu rice polishings. Buy wheat and grind it yourself -
on'-- of the best and cheapest sources of food. Insist on "enrj ■hed”
white flour if you cannot get whole wheat. Use more milk and cheese of
j.ny kind: dry skim milk and buttermilk are less expensive and ive just
as much calcium as whole milk. Use milk drinks, s cups, and milk des
serts often.
Use more fruit, berries, and vegetables: dried, connect, soared;
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retain most of the value of fresh 3 odd except for partial'
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Vitamin a and C in late winter. Prouuce or use more local f- _
Plant garden anu gr-m-houso and berry patch supplying v uty of
groyne, root crops, tomato s, berries and rhubarb.
Utilise abundance of wilu fools: greens, berries, game, ?ish,mush
rooms, reinueer.
Utilize feeds anu kitchen scraps for producing meat, milk, eggs,
hio’r ew rabbits, g^ate).
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Save the surplus. Can, store, cure, dry, and save all
vailoble. Secure cola storage and freezing lockers if possib*
proper methods of storage, many vegetables can be kept all wint r.
Conserve food value of fruits and v ego tables by rapid coving m
small amount of water; urink or use the juic * of canned or cooked veg
etables in soup or gravy or to dilute milk. Do not and soda. Cook in
the jackets. Bake or steam and use the peel. Conserve meats tw low
temperatame roasting or simmering. Meats roasted rapidly cut w.er
servings. St earn-cook cereals in tightly-cover--a kettle without stirr
ing. Cse fats other than butter for baking.
Simplify meals by using more raw foods, less pastri ..-s, a,.' fewer
kinds ef’ foouo at one meal. (Onc-dish meals, soup and sundwi ’ ., bread
or mush anu milk).
Spend i:.er. t* • planning balanced meals anu preparing fo s at
home. * It pays to do your own cooking. Compare costs of h ire-cooked
foods versus ready-to-eat (cracked wheat, lOp a lb. puffed wh t, 40£lb.;
Check wasteful food habits. Use good judgement in amount prepar
ed. 8:rv only enough and insist on cleaning the plate. Wate’i your
weight. Put inedible fooa waste in compost pile for fsrtilizlxg garden.
Clarify fats in boiling water.
Use 1 oft-ovors-insalad, creamed dishes, soups, sandwiches, cass:-j
roles, etc. Learn the tricks oa attractive garnishing and serving (a
pot of parsley, paprika, attractive baking dishes, gay table.c . >tl.s) .
Learn to”like a variety of foods so that you can enjoy a .realthful
uiet. Don’t confuse odor v-oth taste. Try, try again,and you_w.
like almost any fa u if you Want to. Children soon learn to ’ k
foous they help grow or cook.
Balanced diets are cheaper than medication with concentr .tea vit
amins, which are n-eeuo-. only in case of severe deficiency or acute shor
o2e of necessary foous. Use vitamin tablets only on advice o: a phy
^Tako advantage of the better price, and buy in grub-stake lots and
in season. Expensive d-elicaci .-s, unusual foods or foods ^out season,
foods in fancy" packages, expensive condim-.nts, highly refined foods are
luxuries that do not add to tha nutritive- value of the diet au-i are
justifiable only if income is large.
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