Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-28
THE BRIDES
OWN STORY
The savink in Planning Meals Ahead.

| The Saving In Planning Meals Ahead.
Oh, dear. what shall we have for
dinner tonight? is a 2 o'clock song that
I have heard in lots OF houses-but
| nary a once at Aunt .Juliettes AS a
matter of fact, I've personally known
! hostesses who asked you in the morn
ing: Now you tell me just what you
| like and I'll have 1t for dinner" and
I've often suspected that it wasn't
only courtesy to guest, but the de-
sire to shirk the job of planning a
meal that impelled the question.
Aunt Juliette takes the bull by the
| horns and plans all her meals three
or four days ahead. Instead OF plan
ming meals seven times n week-or
| fourteen times, as some women do
| she plans twice a week.
1t does take about an hour or more
| at time, but aunt marshals whole
battery of reasons for doing it.
You can buy In larger quantities
and save money If you know all the
things you'll need during the week!
You market once for your three or
| four days meals and get everything
| you need Consequently you never
| find that you're out of flour or salt
or spices or something else at the
| last minute while you're actually pre-
| pairing the meal.
IF you know, for example that
you're going to have potatoes for the
next two meals you can cook them all
at once, even if some of them are for
the next day, and thus save fuel"
She can advance whole host OF
reasons why" when 1 oppose the
| notion, for at first l must admit
| didn't like the idea of giving up a
whole hour just to plan meals. But
| now I'm really won over to the idea.
IL seems almost improbable. but l
| now believe what Aunt Juliette orig
| inally claimed, that planning meals
! ahead really insures more wholesome
meals! / know that when meals are
thought UP in a hurry at the eleventh
hour some weird combinations result.
Unexpected pies top a heavy dinner,
| just because mother couldn't think
of anything at the last minute, and
she knew everybody liked her apple
pie. Or at O'Clock there isn't an
egg in the house and no time to get
out to get the things we need IL we
are to cook the dinner We just
thought of. If we had planned that
dinner yesterday in conjunction with
other meals we'd have brought all
the needed supplies at the same time
and we could have cooked Just what
we had thought out and decided was
| right
Aunt makes ell these things so
clear l wonder whether I'll be quite
SO sure of myself when have to do
everything alone? Since I cooked an
| entire dinner, all by myself-although
| there was d cook book within reach
feel very self confident. But some
times I wonder. Supposing l cook a
| meal which turns out all wrong?
Or run short in my household ac-
counts? Or Bob gets indigestion af-
ter a year OF my cookery, as Helen
Underwood's husband did? And now
he's just so cross to Helen.
couldn't bear Bob cross and can't
imagine him 50. But then he's never
had occasion to be- He's always
seen me do the things | really do
well, like painting or driving. or ten
nising, or flirting with him-which
l can do e1cellently, thank you. OF
course, they're all things which don't
directly affect his personal health
and comfort, and he has the habit of
admiring everything from the kind
of letters / write to the way do my
hair.
But the thought comes over me now
| that l must learn to do well all these
practical things. How serious II lie to
| have to really take care of another
| person. OF course, the chivalrous old
| idea was that when a man marries
! he takes care of his wife, but 1 be-
| lieve the truth is in the other direc.
tion-that 1t is the wife who must
take care of the man. I wonder If
| can make good?'