The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-02

9INNWsS the price she pays for food is no
~ 70 test of the nOurishment it yields to
yHSxISo the body. Neither can hunger and
its satisfaction always be relied
a bulky diet of potatoes or bananas alone would
soon make person feel that he had eaten enough,
but would not furnish all that the body needs.
Evidently what person who plans meals ought
to know is what things the body needs in its food
and how these needs can be filed by the ordinary
food materials.
The Days Food.
man who does fairly hard muscular work
would be likely to get the food which his body
needs if supplied daily with such combination of
foods the following:
~ pounds of bread. having about the food
value as pound OF such cereal preparations as
wheat flour, oatmeal. cornmeal rice, ETC.
ounces or 4 cup Of butter OIL meat drppings'
ounces. or 4 cup. of sugar. or 1-3 cup of honey
or strip or an equivalent amount of other sweet
IA pounds OF food from the following; Fresh fruits
and green or root vegetables
meats substitutes that is, moderately
fat meats, poultry, fish, eggs, cheese. dried 1e-
gumes deans. peas. IentiIs, cowpeas, and pea
nuts. Milk belongs among these foods. but
because of the large amount of water it contains
half glass, would be required
to equal an ounce of any one of the others
man who works hard out of doors all day
probably would need food than this, and
who sits all day at his desk would need less.
The amounts given suitable for man who,
like salesman in a store, walks about
less and does or less of such work as lifting.
A family consisting of and woman who
do moderately hard muscular work, and three
children-say between three and twelve years of
age-wOuld get the food they require If supplied
daily with:
AZ pounds bread having same food value
pounds of wheat flour, oatmeal. cornmeal
medum-sized potatoes.
q of fat Clutter butter with OIL beef drip
pings. or otner fao-a weekly allowance OF zH2
A little more than 1 cup of sugar or a weekly
lowance of pounds: or an equivalent amount of
vegetables
One of the two following the choice depending on
the of the children:
quarts milk and 1 pound of other foods taken
from the meat and meat-substitute group
quarts Of milk and IL pounds of other foods taken
from the meat and meat-substtute group.
In the combinations of food materials here de-
scrbed bread and other preparations of cereals
are used as freely they can conveniently be
without making the ration sided unattrac-
tive. Such cereal foods form a very wholesome
and economical basis for the diet whether the
cereal is used as breakfast dish, as flour meal
in bread and cakes, or in other ways. diet
equally nourishing and wholesome might be
planned with less cereal, but this would make it
necessary to increase the amount OF the more
costly foods, such meat fruits, vegetables, and
sweets. When cereals used largely as in
the diet just described it is most important that
they be made attractive as possible. This
means good bread, well-cooked and carefully salt
ed breakfast cereals and inexpensive but we'll
made and seasoned cakes and puddlngs. Rice,
macaroni, and homny often be made more
appetizing and nutritious by combining with them
small amounts of materials which not cheap
and have more distinctive favOrs. Among these
are meat and cheese, and onion, tomato, and other
seasoning vegetables Examples of such combina-
lions are rice and meat meat pie, meat with
dumplings; macarOni and cheese; tomatoes cooked
with bread crumbs rice; and cereal and fruit
buildings, or cereal and milk buildings.
Food materials such those shown in the pic
lures may be combined into three meals in many
ways. The following meals given, not be
cause they are recommended above many others
that might be used but simply to show that such
foods can be combined into dishes such as are
commonly used in American homes.
SAMPLE MEALS FOR A FAMILY.
Cdan, three small chidren)
BREAKFAST.
Fruit IL pounds of fresh fruit equivalent to med
ium-sized oranges, small apples quart box
OF Strawberries or 8 of dried fruits
Cereal breakfast food ounces before being cooked
or about IL pints after it is cooked The eQuiva-
lent in value in pulled faxed, ready-to-eat
would be or cups
Milk on cereals, Il cup for each person
Sugar fruit cereal or in coffee 2z level table
spoons IL ounces
Bread. s slices, ounces.
Butter, or 2k cubic inches.
An egg or 2 ounces of meat fish, poultry for
each older person. and glass of milk for each
young child
Meat or fish, 4 pound per person; or, for
each child. egg glass of milk
Potatoes g medium sized, IA pounds
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