Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1942-10-23
CARE IS URGED
IN SUBSTITUTES
FOR FRESH MEAT
WON'T d A NJ A G E
AMERICAN HEALTH IF HOUSE
WIFE TAKES PRECAUTIONS


Meat rationing may damage the
American public,s health if the usual
mistakes in substitution are made. but
it will be absolutely harmless If the
right substitutes are used, according
to a food study by Northwestern Ma
tional Life Insurance Co.
Shorter meat rations are already
here for millions Of American fami-
lies, due to high food prices, the study
points out. Commonest, and therefore
most dangerous error, is to try to re-
place. meats by eating still more
starches and sweets, because these
satisfy hunger, and cost but small
fraction as much as meat Both adults
and children can remain plump on
such a diet, but in few months be-
come ailing, "pepless", and easy prey
for many diseases, due to protein
starvation"
Won't Replace Protein
We need enough starches and sweets
for fuel. but they cannot substitute
for protein, the great bodybuilding
and repair material, the study says.
Healthful, economical protein re-
placements for short meat rationS are:
milk in all forms, including skim, but
termilk, and cheese: eggs; soy flour
and soy grits used in breads, soups,
cereals, and to stretch meat and
fish Dishes; peanut butter; beans,
peas and lentils; whole grain and en-
riched breads and cereals.
Fish and poultry, popularity recon-
mended as substitutes for the red
meats, are excellent so far as food
values are concerned; however, fish is
relatively as scarce as meat, and
poultry is as expensive In many other
countries both have been ratoned
along with meat.
A pound of cheese, either whole milk
or skim milk, averages just as high IN
quantity and quality of protein as
does a pound of good meat. Cottage
cheese is an especially low cost sub
stitute. Peanut butter is rich in fairy
good protein.
Though breads and cereals are COM
monty classed with the starch 1oods'
they contain half as much protein as
meat. 1t is not as good protein I'M
less used with milk or cheese at the
same meal. either of which supple
ments the Shortcomings of grain pro-
teins. Plenty of milk is a must IN
low meat diets, the study says.
The American housewife can assure
healthful and economical replace
ments on meatless days, the STUDY
saws. by observing the following simple
rules:
over half of an adults protein re-
orirements are secured from the dally
consumption Of one pint of milk, TO
2 slices OF dark or enriched bread, and
one cup of cooked whole cereal-either
cracked wheat oatmeal, brown rice OF
barley. 49,
The remaining protein, equal to the
uuantitv furnished by a liberal serving
of meat. can be secured from any Two
of the following dishes: half a cup OF
cottage cheese, in salad or otherwise;
one cup of cooked beans-navy, lima,
or kidney: two eggs; two ounce sllce
of whole or skim milk cheese; four
tablespoons of peanut butter; small
serving of fish, either fresh, dried, or
canned; cup of custard or bread puo-
ding
Fruit and Vegetables
Vitamin and mineral needs OF the
body are then completed by a nperal
daily serving of fresh yellow or green
vegetables, with fruit or fruit juice also
If possible.
Teen age youth needs more protein
than does the adult, and should con-
time to get the childhood ration OF a
quart of milk per day, in addition TO
adult proportions of other foods, the
study states.
Bakers can help ease the meat short
age by making part soy Hour preaa,
cakes, and cookies available, the study
suggests. GRAVES, soups and steWS can
be thickened with soy flour or soy
grits with improvement in meat SUD-
stitute" values. Meat loaf or fish Gro
ouettes can be stretched with soy
grits, and food values thereby main
tanned. Soy is one of the few Vege-
table proteins that approximate the
value of meat proteins.
Lease-lend is taking huge quantities
of soy flour and gritS for use abroad,
but few American stores carry them,
due to lack of local demand. On re-
quest of several families, however, a
grocer can generally secure soy flour
or grits direct from the big soy mills
if his wholesaler does not carry them.
Germany's war shortage of meats has
been largely solved by soy flour and
grits. The British are using soy pro-
ducts by the ton. The United States Is
now second only to Manchukuo as a
soy bean producer and American fami-
lies should learn how to use this valu-
able "naturalized citizen, the study
suggests.
The American housewife can take
the meat shortage in stride, without
injury to her family's health, by
watching the entire daily menu, and
using each little opportunity to "step
up" the protein intake all along the
line, the study concludes.
Falls Is DESIGNATED