Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1955-04-29

the Achievement Day meeting and
heard Mrs. Loa Whitfield talk, will
be the wiser for it when we go to
do our grocery shopping. Hers was
about the most informative talk
I've heard in long time, there
was really something there you
could "sink your teeth into"
I'm going to try and give you
just few of the tips she told us
about when buying food, What you
should choose to get the most for
your money and the most food
values. She especially stressed
buying foods in season, because of
their lower price. For example, she
had a pound of asparagus for
which she had paid 19c. She had a
can of asparagus (same number
of servings) for 33c and box of
that vegetable efrozen which was
47c.
Mrs. Whitfield had brought with
her different types of green's, such
as head lettuce, leaf lettuce, en-
dine, spinach, cabbage, cauliflower
and cucumber, and she told us
about the comparative food values
of each.
In the first place, leaf lettuce
is much better to serve your fam
lily nutrition-wise, than is head let
tuce. She says it is SO foolish for
a homemaker to have nice leaf
lettuce in her garden and then
when she's expecting company
from the city for Sunday dinner
to go and buy head lettuce. En-
dive has more nutrients than let
tuce, she told us, but spinach has
the most of all.
Another point that she put a
great deal of emphasis on was
drinking milk. She said that every
adult should drink 3 cups of milk
a day, for its calcium content. She
said we just couldn't afford not to.
It's possible to get some of that
milk in custards, cheese, ETC., but
it's so much more expensive to
get the nutrients in this manner,
so why not just drink the milk
and be done with it. It matters
not if it's skim or whole milk.
However, there's a lot of Vitamin
A in cream which we should have,
so it's better probably to drink
whole milk. Mrs. Whitfield pointed
out to get the amount of calcium
contained in 3 cups of milk, we
would have to eat IA heads of let
tuce or 61s pounds of carrots.
We were told that it is also
silly to throw away the outside
leaves of cauliflower head. when
we buy it from the store, it is just
delicious baked in a casserole (she
didn't give us the recipe) and has
more food value than the head it.
self.
Something that was entirely new
to me was the method of telling
what is ripe enough pineapple to
buy. You should pick up the pine
apple by one of the center leaves,
If the leaf pulls out, it's still prob
ably green but you can buy it and
take it home, and allow it to sit
at room temperature for a few
days until one of the outside large
leaves will pull out when you lift
it. It's then nice and ripe and
ready to eat.
Another tip you should know
about is that when buying grape
fruit, pick those that have a tight,
shiny. skin, and are heavy for their
cize, they have the most juice and
are your best buy.
Don't you just love to see the
first flowers blossom in the spring.
We've gone so long without seeing
such lovely blooms Gall winter, in
facD that we really appreciate
them now. / have two particular
favorites for early spring, those
huge Red Emperor tulips and
those tiny creeping Phlox. Mrs.
Albert Myerholtz brought big
bouquet of some of her Red En-
peror tulips to the Achievement
Day meeting to decorate the hall,
and believe me, they were decora-
tive, in every sense of the word.
The blooms were positively huge.
I'd never seen anything like it.
] didn't even have presence OF
mind enough to ask her what
methods of planting and feeding
she used to produce those gorgeous
flowers but / intend to find out.
Today's Bit of Nonsense -
A prim old Quaker lady was
driving her shiny new car in Phila.
delphia. Suddenly, at cross street
a heavy truck was unable to stop
until it had collided, crumpling a
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