Milk, eggs, fisJi, meat, peas, beans. These help build up the growing body and renew used-up parts. That is their main business. Dried peas and beans make good dishes to use in place of meat part of the times, but don't leave out the other foods entirely. Milk is the most important. Buy at least a pint a day for every member of your family. No other food can take its place for children. Save on meat if you must, but don't skimp on milk. Cereals. Bread and breakfast foods. These foods act as fuel to let you do your work, much as the gaso- 6 WARCOOKBOOK line burning in an automobile engine makes the car 'go. This you can think of as their chief business. And they are usually your cheapest fuel. Besides, they give your body some building material. Sugar and Syrups are fuel, too, and they give flavor to other foods. They are valuable food, but many people eat more of them than they need. Sweet fruits, of course, contain much sugar and are better for the children than candy. Fat is fuel. Some is needed especially by hard- working people. Remember that expensive fats are no better fuel than cheap ones. Use drippings. Don't let your butcher keep the trimmings from your meat. They belong to you. Children need some butter fat. Give it to them in plenty of whole milk or in butter. WAR COOK BOOK MEATLESS AND WHEATLESS DAY MENU. Breakfast. Orange Oatmeal Corn Muffins Whole milk Sugar Coffee Lunch. Cream of Celery Soup Potato Salad Oatmeal Biscuit Baked Apple Avith Raisins Dinner. Salmon Loaf Carrots Buckwheat Muffins Lettuce Salad Butter Cornflour wafers HOW THIS MENU SUPPLIES BODY NEEDS. BODY CEREALS AND BUILDING i STARCH SUGAR FATS FRUITS & VEGETABLES Whole Milk Oatmeal Corn Muffins BREAKFAST Sugar Butter Orange Cream Soup Oatmeal Biscuit Potato LUNCH Raisins Butter, Salad Dressing Lettuce (Salad) Apple Salmon Loaf Buckwheat Muf- fins, Carrots, Cornmeal Wafers DINNER Butter, Olive Oil Dressing Lettuce Salad WAR COOK BOOK MEATLESS DAY. Breakfast — Prunes Fried mush Eggs with cream sauce Butter Coffee or tea Lunch — Bean loaf Barley yeast bread Butter Rice with tomato sauce Dinner — Scalloped salted cod Rye biscuit Potato dumplings Fruit salad Peas or beets Mayonnaise War cake HOW THIS MENU SUPPLIES BODY NEEDS. BODY BUILDING CEREALS AND STARCH SUGAR FATS FRUITS & VEGETABLES Eggs, Cream Sauce Mush BREAKFAST Butter Prunes Bean Loaf Barley Bread Rice LUNCH Butter Tomato Sauce Fish Potato Dump- lings, Peas or Beets, Rye Biscuit DINNER War Cake Butter Mayonnaise Fruit Salad WARCOOKBOOK 9 AS A KITCHEN SOLDIER SALUTE YOUR COUN- TRY'S FLAG. ANSWER THE ROLL CALL OF YOUR ALLIES' NEED. 1. How MUCH MEAT HAVE I Sent today to the soldier holding the trenches for me in France ? 2. Have I substituted for wheat bread today? 3. How MUCH fat have I given today ? 4. Have I shared my sugar f 5. Have I used home-grown products and freed the railroads to carry food to the allies ? Send 1-3 of your beef Eat instead poultry pork jfish bacon cheese mutton beans wheat flour oats, corn, rye lard vegetable oils sugar syrups, honey 10 WARCOOKBOOK The Reasons for Our Saving:

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Milk, eggs, fisJi, meat, peas, beans. These help build up the growing body and renew used-up parts. That is their main business. Dried peas and beans make good dishes to use in place of meat part of the times, but don't leave out the other foods entirely. Milk is the most important. Buy at least a pint a day for every member of your family. No other food can take its place for children. Save on meat if you must, but don't skimp on milk. Cereals. Bread and breakfast foods. These foods act as fuel to let you do your work, much as the gaso- line burning in an automobile engine makes the car 'go. This you can think of as their chief business. And they are usually your cheapest fuel. Besides, they give your body some building material. Sugar and Syrups are fuel, too, and they give flavor to other foods. They are valuable food, but many people eat more of them than they need. Sweet fruits, of course, contain much sugar and are better for the children than candy. Fat is fuel. Some is needed especially by hardworking people. Remember that expensive fats are no better fuel than cheap ones. Use drippings. Don't let your butcher keep the trimmings from your meat. They belong to you. Children need some butter fat. Give it to them in plenty of whole milk or in butter. MEATLESS AND WHEATLESS DAY MENU. Breakfast. Orange Oatmeal Corn Muffins Whole milk Sugar Coffee Lunch. Cream of Celery Soup Potato Salad Oatmeal Biscuit Baked Apple Avith Raisins Dinner. Salmon Loaf Carrots Buckwheat Muffins Lettuce Salad Butter Cornflour wafers HOW THIS MENU SUPPLIES BODY NEEDS. BODY CEREALS AND BUILDING i STARCH SUGAR FATS FRUITS & VEGETABLES Whole Milk Oatmeal Corn Muffins BREAKFAST Sugar Butter Orange Cream Soup Oatmeal Biscuit Potato LUNCH Raisins Butter, Salad Dressing Lettuce (Salad) Apple Salmon Loaf Buckwheat Muffins, Carrots, Cornmeal Wafers DINNER Butter, Olive Oil Dressing Lettuce Salad MEATLESS DAY. Breakfast — Prunes Fried mush Eggs with cream sauce Butter Coffee or tea Lunch — Bean loaf Barley yeast bread Butter Rice with tomato sauce Dinner — Scalloped salted cod Rye biscuit Potato dumplings Fruit salad Peas or beets Mayonnaise War cake HOW THIS MENU SUPPLIES BODY NEEDS. BODY BUILDING CEREALS AND STARCH SUGAR FATS FRUITS & VEGETABLES Eggs, Cream Sauce Mush BREAKFAST Butter Prunes Bean Loaf Barley Bread Rice LUNCH Butter Tomato Sauce Fish Potato Dumplings, Peas or Beets, Rye Biscuit DINNER War Cake Butter Mayonnaise Fruit Salad AS A KITCHEN SOLDIER SALUTE YOUR COUN- TRY'S FLAG. ANSWER THE ROLL CALL OF YOUR ALLIES' NEED. 1. How MUCH MEAT HAVE I Sent today to the soldier holding the trenches for me in France ? 2. Have I substituted for wheat bread today? 3. How MUCH fat have I given today ? 4. Have I shared my sugar f 5. Have I used home-grown products and freed the railroads to carry food to the allies ? Send 1-3 of your beef Eat instead poultry pork jfish bacon cheese mutton beans wheat flour oats, corn, rye lard vegetable oils sugar syrups, honey The Reasons for Our Saving:

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