San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-13
MEAL
COOKED IN 10
MINUTES
Canned Products Enable
Housewife to Serve
Meal at Any Time.

Fruit an vegetable seasons may
come and go, pausing for only a few
short weeks, as they have the habit
of doing, but a pantry shelf wen
stocked with ready-to-serve dishes off
sets any dearth of variety in prepar-
ing the vegetable dinner. The pea,
bean. tomato, or any other vegetable
crop may be way below part might
even fail-but the prudent housewife
is ready for any emergency with her
well stocked shelf.
No matter how short the seasons
may be, nor what happens to the
crop, mankind must have his vegetable
diet the year round or something is
going to happen to his health and
well ing. Fruits and vegetables are
necessary for the vitamins and min
eral salts. as well as for the proteins
and other food elements they contain,
and without vitamins man would die.
Fortunately nature provided for this
even in the Garden of Eden.
SEASON SAME.
But the world has moved apace
since the days of Adam and Eve.
There are millions of their descend
ants to be fed today. Crop seasons
have not changed. Daylight saving
can't change the sun and the moon
and the stars and the rain. Nature
ignores daylight saving.
But arrange her crops as she will.
with one following on the heels of
another, and great all-year-round
vegetable garden in some parts of the
world, Nature finds it hard work to
keep the world fed with fresh fruits
and vegetables all the time, especially
since man has put such an exorbitant
value on land in congested districts
that it is too valuable to even produce
the necessary vitamins.
CROPS CANNED.
So as each crop comes along, Ma
ture says to man. Eat what you
can, and what you can't, can," for
nature is never waster. The con-
sequence is that every season of the
year is harvest time for the house
wife of today. She sets her table
with fruits, vegetables and fish from
all points of the compass, for her
fruit orchard and her fishery.
Geography and seasons do not enter
her calculations.
These ready dishes are prepared
when the vegetables or fruits are at
their prime, in the land of their birth,
while fresh from field or orchard,
under the most scientific methods.
a vegetable dinner out of cans has
a double value to the housewife when
she realizes the vegetables contain all
their original vitamins and food
value. Furthermore, she will need
only few minutes to prepare a meal
such as this:
TEN-MIN MEAL.
Pea soup creamed with evaporated
milk, baked beans, tomatoes, spinach
and baby beets, salmon salad, gar
nished with olives and lemon, prune
whip and coffee.
The pea soup will furnish vitamins
and butter fat as well as proteins. The
spinach is rich in vitmains, mineral
salts and water. Tomatoes furnish
more vitamins, salts, proteins and
water. Baked beans or spaghetti
furnish ca bohydrates and proteins.
The baby beets furnish iron rs well
as proteins and vitamins. In the
salmon one gets, in addition to
proteins, that infinitesimal amount of
iodine recently discovered as very
necessary to health. And in the prune
whip one gets the mineral content
of fruit as well as iron and vitamins.
Brown or nut bread is excellent
served with this dinner, and adds
bulk.
The meal is well balanced. which is
the main thing the housewife should
watch for whether she serves her meals
m ready prepared foods or cooks
the dishes herself. After all most
of our digestive troubles may be laid
to the unbalanced ration.