Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 243, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1917 — All the Burden of Food Conservation Should Not Rest Upon the Housewife [ARTICLE]

All the Burden of Food Conservation Should Not Rest Upon the Housewife

By Either Moran, Supervisor

of Domestic Science, St. Pau! Public Schools

The average American man can do much toward stopping food waste and irrational eating. All the burden and blame does not rest on the housewife. Many wives are willing to make or buy conservation bread, but the husbands laugh and refuse to eat it. Many wives try to substitute vegetable protein for animal protein, but the husband demands meat. He likes to see plenty of food on the table and then to heap up the plates, expand his chest and “What a good fellow am I.” Wouldn’t it be better to ask for a second helping rather than have any ■waste at all ? Does the average man know what he should eat ? What is a balanced ration ? Does he eat soup, roast, gravy, potatoes, beans macaroni, bread, butter, pie, cheese, crackers and coffee ? Man must be educated on the food subject, but oftentimes his habits are ingrained and so the best the intelligent housewife can do is to begin with the children and teach them to eat just enough good, plain, wholesome food, to eat the right combinations and to refrain from spoiling good food so that it must be thrown away.