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Show t- By Frances Ainsworth " save""" The other day, as I was buying my groceries, I noticed a huge poster tacked on the wall bearing the words "Save Bread for Europe" and somehow the grocer and I began be-gan talking about food conservation. conserva-tion. He told me that many women do not realize just how much food' they waste every day. And I told him my favorite trick for keeping food fresh and cutting down food costs at the same time. "Waxed paper," I said, "is the clue to food saving that a lot of women simply overlook. I always choose items wrapped in waxed paper and use that paper to protect pro-tect my foods and insure their freshness. Take a loaf of bread, for instance by carefully re-closing the waxed; paper wrapper on my bread after taking out just enough for each serving, I can keep it fresh for days. Cereals, too, as well fls many other foods, keep fresh ever so much longer if the waxed paper lining is folded carefully care-fully every time the package is put harV" The grocer told me that I should pass that trick along to every housewife I know that, according accord-ing to actual statistics, if each housewife would save only one slice of bread a day, the national saving would be a million pounds of bread daily! Enough to feed 5 million people! Think what that would mean to the people in Europe who are actually starving! You've been reading about the urgent need of food conservation and hearing it over the radio so why not try my method of saving? Let waxed paper do the work it's intended for to keep your food fresh and, by eliminating unnecessary waste, help to feed the millions of starving starv-ing people in Europe. |