The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1916-11-16

Do You Know Food Values?
With butter 40 cents a pound
\ eggs so cents a dozen, potatoes y.
bushel, sugar 8 cents a pound
-four $40 a barrel, beans 50 a bush
q, meat prices higher than eve
before, nearly all other foods cor
respondingly high. and no signi
Of lower prices. the average house
wife has hard time keeping thu
grocery bill within the limit all
lowed by the family income, says
The Palousc Republic. For the
benefit Of those worried wives, the
government has set to work a
corps OF men who are experts in
food values. They are issuing
bulletins telling how to get more
Out Of food than cooks usually
get, how 10 save in the kitchen
and what the food values are Of
things We all eat.
There is great public ignor-
anee about the question Of. food
values The average woman has
some sort Of a notion that meat
is more Strengthening than any
other kind Of food, that eggs are
almost, if not quite, as good, and
beyond that she knows little that
is definite.
And yet she ought to be an ex-
4 pert along this line OF food values,
for il is one Of the most important
things IN life, both from the stand
point of economy and Of health.
III you should tell the average
housewife that pound Of soda
crackers has nearly twice as much
food value as a pound Of best
roast beef. she would think y0u
were joking but the government
says il is true.
The Philadelphia North Ameri-
can. discussing this subject recent
IL, pointed OUT that ii one Of its
readers should see a family Of
four sharing d dinner Of one
quart Of milk and one pound of
popcorn, he would be moved TO
sympathy. The same person, OBJ
serving family Of four eating a
meal 81 parsnip soup, pork spare
ribs with onions. apple sauce,
Drowned sweet potatoes, rolls and
butter. gelatin and whipped cream
and coffee. would call such diners
fortunate lie would say the pop
corn eaters were half starved
and the other four amply nurish--
ed.
Yet the milk-and-popcorn group |
would be getting two-thirds as
much nutriment as the other
group with its elaborate meal
and milk and popcorn would be
more wholesome and digesfible,
TOO.
The point is. as government bull
iefiRs are pointing out, a house
wife who knows nothing of the
fuel value Of different foods,
viii, through the ignorance, pay
for 200 calorics twice or even four
times as much as would buy a SIM
liar quantity Of another food with
six times as much fuel value. "
There is not room here to tell
what the government experts say
in their bulletins about how to
save money by buying the cheap
er cuts Of meat and then cooking
them long enough 10 make them
just as tender and tooth-some as
the higher priced cuts: how to
cook meats so as to retain ali their
inherent nutriment; and so on.
just one item that ought to be
Of interest in the problem of
household economy. Rice is to-
day the same price it was this day
a year ago; and rice has a high
food value. Rice is the food stap-
e Of nearly one-third of the hui
man race. There is no food, not
even wheat -four, that lends itself
10 more varied ways of prepare
ion as food. Look in almost any !
.ook book and find the many diff
ierent appeti- rs ways IN winch
nee may be cooked and served.
In Legislative Work. !
As in everything else, ex-
)erience counts in legislative !
work. II requires some time for
! new member of the stale iegis-
allure to get his bearing and also {
o learn lust where TO take !
lold.n Making laws to govern
everal hundred thousands Of :
people is no child's play. One
reeds GOOD Judgment. wears OF