Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-15

@S%>S money she spends? Unfortunately,
ST1SWss the price she pays for food is no
~ "a test of the nOurishment it yields to
SScISN the body. Neither hunger and
its satisfaction always be relied
A bulky diet of potatoes or bananas alone would
soon make a person feel that he had eaten enough,
but would not furnish all that the body needs.
Evidently what n person who plans meals ought
to know is what things the body needs in its food
and how these needs can be filled by the ordinary
food materials.
The Days Food.
A 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 same food
value as pound of such cereal preparations as
wheat rye -four oatmeal cornmeal, rice, etc.
ounces. or Y cup of butter. oil. meat drippings
or other fat.
ounces. a cup of sugar: 1-3 cup of honey
or strip or an equivalent amount of other sweet
~ pounds of food from the following: Fresh fruits
and green root vegetables.
L of food from a class which may be called
meats and meat substitutes that is, moderately
fat meats, poultry, fish. eggs, cheese. dried le-
gumes Oceans, peas, lentils, cowpeas and pea
nuts). Milk also belongs among these foods but
because of the large amount of water il contains
half glass or ounces of 1t would be required
to equal an ounce of any one OF the others.
A man who works hard out of doors all day
probably would need more food than this, and
one who sits all day ut his desk would need less.
The amounts given suitable for n man who,
like salesman in a store, walks about more or
less and does more less of such work lifting.
A family consisting of man and woman who
do moderately hard muscular work. and three
chdren-say, between three and twelve yeans of
age-would get the food they require if supplied
daily with:
Az pounds of bread, having the same food value as
pounds of wheat rye flour. oatmeal cornmeal
homny rice; about pa pounds of cereals
and or medium potatoes
cup of fat (butter butter with oil, beef drip
pings. or other fao-a weekly allowance OF "a
to pounds.
little than / cup of sugar. a weekly al
lowance of pounds: or an equivalent amount of
some other sweet.
pounds in all of fresh fruits and fresh or root
vegetables.
One the following, the choice depending
the age the children:
quarts of milk and pound of other foods taken
from the meat and meat-substtute group.
quarts of milk and ~ pounds of other foods taken
from the meat and meat-substitute group
In the combinations of food materials here de-
scribed. bread and other preparations of cereals
used as freely as they can conveniently be
without making the ration sided unattrac-
tive Such cereal foods form very wholesome
and economical basis for the diet, whether the
cereal Is used as breakfast DISH -four or meal
in bread and cakes or in other ways. a diet
equally nOurishng 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 as largely as in
the diet just described it is most important that
they be made attractive possible. This
means good bread. well-coOked and carefully salt
ed breakfast cereals and inexpensive but we'll
made and seasoned cakes and puddngs Rice,
macaroni. and homny can often be made more
nppetiZing and nutritious by combining with them
small amounts of materials which are not so cheap
and have more distinctive favorS Among these
are meat and cheese, and onion. tomato. and other
seasoning vegetables. Examples of such cOmbina-
tons rice and meat, meat pie, or meat with
dumpings; macaroni and cheese; tomatoes cooked
with bread crumbs rice: and cereal and fruit
buildings or cereal and milk puddngS
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 \ FAMILY
(Man. woman. and three small children)
BREAKFAST
Fruit IL pounds of fresh fruit equivalent TO med
ium-sized oranges. small apples. or quart box
of strawberries). or ounces of dried fruits
equivalent 10 l. dates or or fGs)
Cereal breakfast food ounces before being cooked,
or about ~ pints after it is cooked The eGuiva-
lent in food value in puffed faxed ready-to-eat
cereals would be or cups.
MIX cereals u cup for each person.
Sugar fruit cereal in coffee, 2l2 level table
spoons Ia ounces.
Bread slices. or S ounces.
Butter. Ia OF. 2ls cubic inches
An egg or ounces of meat. fish. poultry for
each older person. and glass of milk for each
young child.
Meat or fish. u pound per grown person; or for
each child egg or glass of milk.
Potatoes Is medium sized. IL pounds.