The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1917-09-21
HOOVER FOOD PROGRAM.

| Ito eat one wheatless meal a day
2-To eat beef, mutton or pork not
more than once a day.
$40 economize in the use of but
ter.
| 4-To cut the daily allowance of
sugar in tea or coffee and in any other
way possible.
! $40 eat more vegetables, fruit
and fish.
6-To urge in the hotel sand restau-
rants frequented the necessity of
| economy.
Herbert Hoover, food administrator
OF the United States, has designed the
| above program as practical guide
to the American housewife in the win
the war in the kitchen" campaign.
The program consists of six simple
| rules, which If followed by every
housewife in the nation will release
Tor the army and the allies the food
staples necessary for their sustenance
and success.
The first rule is to eat one wheatless
meal day. That means that oat meal
| cakes or rye or corn bread should be
served once a day instead of bread
made from wheat flour. Also the wheat
saving campaign includes the aban-
doning of the use of wheat as a break
fast food. Corn starch may be used in
stead of wheat flour in thickening
gravies and sauces.
The second recommendation, to eat
beef, mutton or pork only once day
Is to be followed Utterly. 1t means
serving meat left overs as dinner or
supper dish and not for luncheon. 1t
means giving up the usual slice of
breakfast bacon or If bacon is used
for breakfast some meat substitute
must be found for the other two meals
that day Chicken, fish and Belgian
hare and all sorts of game are good
substitutes for meat, also macaroni
and cheese and different egg or cheese
dishes.
To econOmize on the use of butter
requires that butter shall be used only
at the table and that other fats must
be saved and used in cooking. Drip
pings and chicken fats and vegetable
oils are all good.
To cut the daily allowance of sugar
in tea and coffee and in any other way
is not hard to do. A common waste of
sugar is in allowing children to help
breakfast food. A good plan is to
sweeten the morning porridges before
it leaves the kitchen. Then there will
be no waste of sugar split on the ta-
BILE. Sugar used in preserving is JUS
titled as helping preserve perishable
foods.
To eat more vegetables, fruit and
fish means using The supplies of per-
ishable food stuffs easily obtained.
They will fill the lack in the menu
caused by using fewer of the foods
mentioned above.
The need for conservation of the
staple foods is great. There will be
huge army of men of the United States
abroad before many months They will
require food that is nourishing and
capable of standing transportation.
The United States will also have to
feed the hungry people of the allied
nations. Added to the need for food
surplus, margin of safety, must be
allowed to make up for losses caused
by the enemies submarines.
The American housewife who wastes
a pound of flour may be causing some
child to go hungry because of her
carlessness. The lives of million sof
people will depend this winter on the
frugality and wisdom of tho women
of America.
The Hoover regime requires no
hardships Compared to the sacrifices
of the men in the trenches it is moth
ing Also it is a food program that
arranges the national diet along the
lines of efficiency and improved
health.