Evening star., 1936-01-02
Remedies Should Be Applied Ag Family Budget Without Delay
Division of Food Dollar
Into Five Portions Is
Suggested as One Plan
Any Schedule Should Be Based on Diet Con-
tanning Properly Balanced Food
Values for Household.

tomatoes, 1reSn or canned. NO
other vegetable retains so much of
its vitamin C when cooked or canned.
"Leafy, green and yellow vege-
tables also have q special place in
the food budget because they con-
tribute important minerals and vita
minis. In this group are included
cabbage, collards, turnip greens, broc-
coli, Brussels sprouts, mustard, dande-
lions, beet greens, spinach, asparagus
and the various salad greens accord
ing to the season and the market;
also green peas. snap beans and limas.
For yellow vegetables the choice lies
among carrots, yellow turnips, yellow
squash and pumpkin.
Dried beans and peas, also pea
nuts, peanut butter and nuts OF all
kinds are highly concentrated foods
and very useful for that reason. They,
too, should have a place to them
selves in the vegetable group.
Selecting from these groups Of
vegetables, the housekeeper who fol-
lows the diet pattern suggested here
could provide her family about three
servings Of vegetables daily and on
three to five days Of the week
fourth vegetable. For example, daily
servings Of potatoes or sweet potatoes,
tomatoes Cor citrus fruits, green's or
carrots or peas or beans or some
other green or yellow vegetable, and
on three to flve other days perhaps
baked beans or black-eyed peas,
stuffed onions, scalloped cabbage, or
raw vegetable salad.
"Fruits.-At this time Of year, Of
course, Winter apples are at their
best, oranges and grapefruit and
tangerines are at the height Of their
season. bananas are plentiful. Until
the fresh peaches, apricots, plums,
pears and pineapple, or the berries and
grapes are in season again, there are
canned fruits Of all kinds, and there
are also the dried fruits with their
more concentrated food values -
prunes, dates, figs. raisins and cur
rants. dried peaces and dried apricots.
The fruits share, with vegetables, one
fourth or more of the food money,
which would provide for at least one
serving Of fruit every day.
Meats, Poultry, Eggs and Fish
Muscle meats, whatever the kind or
cut, have aoout the same food values.
Liver, kidneys and other organs Of
meat animals are still more nutritious.
and so are eggs and some kinds Of
fish. Generally speaking, however.
the foods in this group fill much the
same place n the diet. A sixth Of
the food money is allotted to them,
and is expected to provide meat five
times a week. or every day II the
meat is sometimes combined with
cereal in a meat loaf or croquettes,
for example, or III stew with vege-
tables. The allowance for this item
should also provide eggs two or three
times a week for the adults in the
family, and four or five times for
young children, with o few eggs be-
sides for use in cooking.
Bread and CerealS.-That means
-four, corn meal, rice. macaroni, spag-
hetti and various breakfast cereals,
as well as bread. crackers and other
bakery goods. 1t is q good thing TO
use some whole-grain cereals to make
the most Of the food values Of the
grain. An eighth of the food money
will provide a breakfast cereal every
day and bread at every meal.
Fats and sugars are grouped to-
gether because they are all concen-
trated energy foods. The fats include
not only butter, margarines, lard or
vegetable shortcomings. but salt pork
and bacon. With sugars are classed
sirups and molasses, also jellies, jams
and honey.
Accessories include such items as
coffee, tea, cocoa, baking powder,
soda, vinegar. salt. spices, etc.-budg-
eted. however, with the fats and
sugars, to which are allotted one
sixth Of the food money for o mod
crate cost diet.
With budget like this, the house.
keeper should be able to serve desserts
once or twice q day, especially if she
uses fruit desserts sometimes.
"The main point Of this food budget
is its variety at moderate cost. Human
beings require energy foods, body
building foods and health protective
foods and the diet pattern suggested