SCHEMES OF DIET.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9133, 4 July 1908, Page 4

SCHEMES OF DIET.

A great deal of attention is being paid at Home to schemes of diet which are both cheap and nutritious. The New York Health and Housing Reform Association have issued a pamphlet showing that a family of five can be well fed on 12s>9d a week. The family is supposed to consist of a father doing fairly hard work, a mother and three children, aged about eleven, eight, and three. Four meals a day are provided. The 12s 9d is made up as follows:—-Oatmea 1 , 4Jd, flour 2s treacle 3d, jam ]£d, sugar 6d. potatoes 7d, turnips and carrots 2d, barley rice, lentils and green peas 6Jd, onions 3Jd, currants and figs 2id, ten 7Jd, cocoa 33d,' meat and bacon 2s lljd, cheese 3d, milk Is, fish BJd, dripping Is 2sd, sundries The following is a sketch of one day's medals: —Breakfast: Porridge and treacle, tea, bread, and dripping, herrings (3). Dinner: Barley broth, boiled meat and potatoes. Tea: Tea, bread, jam. Supper: Brown bread, dripping, cheese, cocoa, and milk. A number of important hints to housewives accompany these suggestions . They are told that the cheaper cuts of meat are juit as nourishing and digestible as chop) and sceaks and the more expensive ptirts used for roasting, and more ecannmical. Mothers are advised thut a good breakfast is all important to children, and that plenty of food should be given at midday. Tea and coffee are declared to have no feeding value whatever, their use being justified only by their stimulating action and the means they afford of taking milk and Sugar.