Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1898 — Economy in Food. [ARTICLE]

Economy in Food.

. Experiments made by several learned professors establish the fact that sixteen cents a day will feed a man at moderate work, and thirteen cents a day is required for food for a woman. But shrewa buying and economical cooking are necessary. You must select your own meat, not allow tne butcher to do it. You will soon learn to know the best. Round steak is, all tnings considered, the cheapest. There are better cuts, but, as a rule, not worth the difference in price. There is more in the cooking of the steak than there is in the portion of the beef from which it is cut. Make your own bread. It is far cheaper and should be better. Twenty-five per cent, of water is added to bread in mixing, and water at five cents per pound is not cheap. A good vegetable lard is cheaper and more wholesome than hog lard. Sugar is a cheap food; give the children plenty of it. Beans and peas are very nutritious, and are “muscle formers. Tomatoes are of very little nutritive value, and are composed very largely of water. Buy the best butter, and take note of the amount of cream that rises on your milk. Buy fresh vegetaDies when you can get them at a reasonable price. Above all, variety is the spice of a good appetite. Let there be anticipation at each meal, and not have the same dishes day after day. Even a Thanksgiving dinner will became monotonous if served alike for a w»>ok.