The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-07-29

BY Vksinio Smith
There is no place for finicky appe-
tites now that food prices are sky
high.
Food prejudices also lead to NAL
nutrition. Anyone who avoids many
foods is in danger of not getting
all the nutrients needed for health,
Extension Service food specialists
warn.
Careful planning. wise buying
and good cooking can do much to
hold down food expenses. But even
these may not outweigh the ex-
pense of catering to whims and
special tastes.
Family cooperation in overcoming
food prejudices can save dollars and
cents on the food bill
Adults should make a special eff
fort to like all foods and to avoid
! discussions before children. Children
are easily influenced against certain
foods by the attitudes and dislikes
of their elders, and they may carry
these prejudices all their lives.
| Children in nursery schools learn
to eat food set before them because
child guidance specialists do not
indulge their whims by offering al
ternate foods or by arguing about
them.
Food prejudices, even when well
established, can be overcome. Dur
ing the war many men in the arm
ed forces learned to eat and enjoy
foods they had refused at home.
Overcoming prejudicies and
practicing good nutrition in general
are based on good eating habits as
suggested below.
First, serve at least three full
meals daily.
Second, see that meals are well
| spaced, with enough time between
them to permit hunger to develop.
Third, between-meals eating, if
any, should be restricted to eating
simple, easily digested foods such
as fruits, milk or bread.
! Fourth, sweets should be eaten
only with the meal, as dessert. If
candy is eaten, the amount should
be small.
Fifth. breakfast should be at a re-
gular time, unhurried and generous
in amount. This meal should carry
its share of the essential foods as
milk, fruit and eggs. 1t should in
clude energy foods such as bread
and butter or margarine, cereal or
potatoes.
Sixth, lunch should be eaten re-
gularly and in generous amount.
Lunch should include such foods as
milk, fruit, vegetables, meat. fish
or eggs, wholegrain or enriched or
restored cereals and bread. Addi-
tional energy may be supplied by
bread, butter or margarine, cereal
or potatoes.
| Seventh, everyone should eat
most foods. However, dislikes may
have very real foundation so
children should not be forced to
eat.
| Easy WGys
Some easy ways to do odd jobs
around the house are suggested:
| When putting new elastic in a
garment, pin the end Of the new
to the worn elastic. Then as the worn
elastic pulls out, the new elastic
will pull in.
Keep a stiff brush near the laun-
dry tubs. Before putting garments
into the wash, turn any pockets in
side out and brush thoroughly. The
brush will be handy also for brush
ing soapsuds on especially soiled
places. such as neckbands, collars
and cuffs.
The finger of an old glove or
thimble, placed over the end of a
curtain rod, helps the curtain skip
onto the rod easily without catch
ing or tearing.
Il To paint stairway which must
be used while the paint is drying,
paint every other step. Then when
the first set of steps are dry, the
| alternate steps may be painted.
/ When packing cake in waxed
paper, sprinkle the paper with
powdered sugar first, this helps the
frosting to stick to the cake and
not to the paper,
! Stick a piece of adhesive tape on
The wall before putting in tack to
| hold pictures. This helps prevent
the tack from cracking the plaster.
Il Wax applied to the dust pan helps
dust slide off easily; to the tops and
bottoms Of drawers, helps prevents
: sticking to the painted surface of
washing machines, helps prevent
rust.