Evening star., 1916-12-22
HIGH LIGHTS ON ECONOMY
IN DOING FAMILY MARKETING
Average Unpepared for Food Products
80 40 Per Cent of Family Income Should Expenditures
for Food-Real and Expensive Economics

purchased in bulk to keep them IRON
spelling. Better buy dozen cans or
packages of food and use all the contents
than to have a great quantity OF me
same food in bulk and use only as nuch
as we could have had in the can.
There is always great tendency 10
prepare more than necessary 1or a neai
when there is quantity OF buih ioou
at hand. One of our great economy helps
now is to prepare just the foods that the
body needs and in the proper quantity
The body building foods have been given
in these pages. If YOU missed tSis ana
would like to have this information send
your request to me care of this paper
There are some foods on the market
now. particularly fitted to help the house
wife reduce the cost of hvlnS. lhere is
no better or higher quality. economy pro
duct than oleomargarine. 1t can be used
in any way that butter is used. BE sure
to buy first quality product and Keep
in cool place as YOU would putler.
There is no product on the Market lhe
ingredients of which have been so care
fully selected and government inspected.
Bacon an Economy.
Bacon is another economy product. 1t
is one of the most easily digeSted and
assimilated foods. Physicians recommend
"a little bacon very early in conValeS-
cling case because it is a, food that gives
its nourishment with little tax on the
digestive organs After all, it is what we
digest rather than what we eat that
benefits us At first glance bacon may
not appear d economy. The drlppingS,
however. are delicious to use in many
ways and should he saved separate.
Use the bacon drippngs as shortening
for fiaky pie crustS. IS the fat in delicious
spice cakes as the foundation for white
sauces or gravy and as the fat to fry
potatoes
The foreign housewife. long trained in
the WAYS of economy and thrift, salts and
spices these drippings and uses the prod
uct as a spread for bread. 1t makes
delicious sandwich with salt meat or thin
slices of summer sausage. School children
relish this wholesome luncheon after
school
The cooked canned meats that are all
food. with no waste. would be real
economy to many a Young housewife who
has not yet learned how to buy eco
nomically. The cheaper cuts of meat have
often been given in these pages. Send to
me for a meat chart telling you how to
choose and cook the Inexpensive cuts.
This knowledge in itself is a great help
in reducing food expenditure.
Beware of Expensive Economies.
In period of high costs or of hard
times the conscientious housewife who
is helping her husband to save is very
apt to practice expensive economies This
might be in buying cheap unprotected
foods 1t might be in overworking TO
save on labor hire and also attempting
to do all the cooking for large family.
If YOU do save service then We your
elf by letting the experts employed by
he producer of national reputation do
most of your heavy cooking. There is
economy in wearing ones self out so that
a doctor must be called in You will pay
a physician for one call enough to buy
wholesome food for two people five days
Plan your economies wisely