Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-01-18
~ Resolutions
Are Suggested
For Housewife
Ingenuity And A Careful
Budgeting of Time
Are Advised

Here are some hints that might
form the basis for practical New
Years resolutions if adopted by thu
housewife.
l. Galleries, vitamins, minerals
ETC., are going to take a back seat
Don't be alarmed. The family vii
surely be provided with foods that
supply the necessary nutritive quail.
tiles but don't stress this all tht
time.
2. EARLY to market beginning to-
morrow and there is a reason
Stores are less crowded, service il
better, there is a greater selection
of food, especially fresh vegetable:
and meats, and the rest of the day
is free to go about other tasks un-
interrupted.
3. Have a market order. 1t will
discourage those too frequent extra
trips for a forgotten pound of cof-
fee or bar of soap.
4. If you haven't an emergency
pantry shelf, there is no time like
the present to start one. Make sure
hat y u will never be caught with
out something to eat in the house
when your mother-in-law or your
husbands boss drops in unexpect-
eddy for dinner.
5. Here is an opportunity to bring
variety into your menus. Have a
new dish at least once a month. 1t
may be a vegetable that you have
never served or just a new recipe
that someone has told you about.
Seafood offers unlimited opportu-
mites to bring new dishes to your
n
E. Speaking of recipes, why net
start a scrapboook " recipe file, and
clip the interesting ones that you
see in your daily paper or maya
zines. When you feel that you are
desperate for new menu suggestions
refer to your scrapbook. A book
of this type will put a new slant on
dishes that will interest the family.
7. Do you have a working rou-
tine for your kitchen tasks? For
example, set aside one day to de-
frost and thoroughly clean the re-
%frigerator, another to check over
the stock on your pantry shelves, a
definite time to give your order for
staple groceries,, another time to
clean the bread and cake boxes, and
so on. You might set aside one
morning in the week that is usually
a dull one and give it over entirely
to putting the kitchen in spick and
span order.
8. Children's luncheons need
more attention. If the youngsters
carry a luncheon box to school,
be sure that they have an assort-
ment of sandwiches, fruit or cake
and not the same thing day after
day. A thermos bottle for hot soup.
milk or cocoa is an inexpensive
lunch-box accessory and still it
keeps the school lunches from be-
coming too hum-drum. A pudding
or perhaps a salad will be a pleasant
addition to the box lunch.
9. This is Just another way to
have more leisure. Use the many
delicious canned soups, %jellies, stews
vegetables and fruits with which
your grocer will supply you, in.
stead of preparing all these dishe'
in your own kitchen. Canned
strained vegetables and fruits fo1
babies are recommended by physi
clans for infants. Get several can
of strained baby food for your baby
then, just to give it a try, insteat
of spending weary hours in tn
kitchen cooking and purreeing
yourself.
10. Don't always have the con
ventional dinner of soup, meat, po
tatoes, 4 vegetable, bread, salad an
dessert. Try meat substitutes oc
casionally, a salad meal, soup as
main course and once in a Will
omit bread and dessert because ther
are interesting dishes to take thei
places.
II. If you feel that cooking is
burden check up on your kitche
equipment and if it doesn't suit you
see what can be done about it. Thi
doesn't mean that you must have
new range, refrigerator or kitche
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