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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 14, 1915

MAKING the HYGIENIC MENU ATTRACTIVE YET INEXPENSIVE A SYMPOSIUM

By George E. Cornforth

HOW TO MAKE THE MENU MORE ATTRACTIVE YET INEXPENSIVE

George E. Cornforth

The first thing needful is to become more capable in the preparation of wholesome, palatable food—to acquire greater skill in preparing the common dishes so that they will taste better. This skill can be acquired by studying the instruction given in a good cookbook of healthful cookery, and in LIFE AND HEALTH, and by practicing according to that instruction, trying every time a dish is prepared to make it better than ever before.

To make meals more wholesome means economy, because it means better health, and better health means greater efficiency for work, less loss of time from work, and less paid out for doctors' bills. “The greatest economy is health.”

Meat is the most expensive part of the average bill of fare. More nourishment can be bought for a given sum when buying nonflesh foods than when buying meat. “From one fourth to one half the money spent for food goes to the butcher and usually the smaller the income the larger the proportion spent for meat.” Therefore the menu may be made less expensive by omitting the meat, and seems to us who are vegetarians that is more attractive, too, not to have a portion of a carcass on the table. And we believe it has been pretty conclusively proven that better health is possible without meat than with it. Therefore to do without meat means economy on that score. Ways of preparing attractive meals which require no meat have been described in LIFE AND HEALTH.

Adopting a nonflesh bill of fare will mean economy also in the expense for fat foods, and the nonflesh foods of this class are more wholesome—economy again from a health standpoint. Butter is an expensive article of diet, especially in cities where the best butter retails for about forty cents a pound, or perhaps more than that. Vegetable cooking oil

A Taste of One of Five Up-to-Date Articles Upon the Above Subject, Found in the January “Life and Health”

How much depends upon the condition of a man's stomach! One meets cranky, sour-faced, irritable DYSPEPTICS at almost every turn. Walk right up to such people and offer them the January number of Life and Health. It will tell them about GOOD FOOD COMBINATIONS—the best things from FIVE EXPERTS. And don't forget to mention “For the Mother,” a new department telling of “Uncomfortable Babies—Why?” “Whims of the Child;” “Artificial Foods for Baby;” “Faulty Feeding in Infancy;” etc. “The Consultation Room” is another new department. See “Foot-and-Mouth Disease,” “Prevention of Tuberculosis,” “Can Consumption Be Cured?” and FORTY-SIX OTHER articles in this PRACTICAL NUMBER. Send $1.00 for 20 or $2.00 for 50 copies TODAY. Sample copy, 10 cents. Postage stamps accepted.