Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1918 — Seven Important New Food Rules Are Now in Effect [ARTICLE]

Seven Important New Food Rules Are Now in Effect

The federal food administration now asks all individuals and all hotels, restaurants and boarding houses to observe : 1. Wheatless Monday. 2. Wheatless Wednesday. 3. One wheatless meal every day. 4. Meatless Tuesday. 5. Pork!ess Saturday. 6. One meatless meal every day. 7. Save fats and sugar every day. “Wheatless” now means to use no wheat in bread, crackers, pastry, breakfast food, or anything, except the small amount necessary to thicken soup or gravy or to bind cornbread or other cereal breads. “Meatless” means no beef, pork, mutton, veal or lamb in any form, fresh or preserved, and no bacon, ham or lard. “Porkless” means to use no fresh or salted pork, bacon, ham or lard in any form.