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Show LET'S EAT1 . I j) Watch Impulse Buys necessary foods. The average family expenditures for food are $7.77 per week per person which la far too high. Tomorrow's Dinner gar dine-Egg Saladettea Hungarian Hot Pot Baked Eggplant 81ioea New Apple Sauce Ginger Snapa Coffee or Tea , Milk (children) Sardine-Egg Saladettea Hard-cook 1 egg. Remove the shell and chop the egg. Add 4 tbp. fine-minced green pepper or chopped chives, and mayonnaise mayon-naise to blend. Cut 1 large tomato to-mato crosswise in 4 slices. Spread with the egg salad mixture. mix-ture. Top each slice with chilled sardine and serve garnished gar-nished with parsley, cress, or shredded lettuce tossed with French dressing. Hungarian Hot rot"" ' ' Peel and slice large whit potatoes V thick and place In the bottom of a 3-qt bean pot or casserole. Cover with 1 lb. -chopped raw beef. The peel and slice 6 medium-sized onions and place over the meat. Mix IV ' ' tap. salt, tap. pepper and 1 tap. paprika into 1 qt. peeled (No. 2Vi) can solid pack tomatoes. toma-toes. Pour Into the baking uten- v all. Cover tight and bake in a moderate oven, 350F., for about 2 hra. Half an hour before the dish will be done, stir in 1 c '' soured cream. - 1 IDA 1AIUY ALLEN "It Is surprising," remarked , the chef, "how many homemak-era homemak-era you can see wandering through the markets with apparently ap-parently no plan for their anop-pingr anop-pingr "Well chef, I think the majority ma-jority of hom "makers know what they need, but mora than a third buy on Impulse." "Food costa are still too high to allow much "buying on impulse.' im-pulse.' The latest reports from Washington show that the greatest percentage of families, with an income of $3000 to $4000 a year, spend 33 of their income for food more than a third; far too much to allow a margin for buying on Impulse. With Incomes of $7500 and up only 17 la spent for food; so these families can afford to buy on impulse occasionally." "A good plan for the average homemaker," commented the chef, "would be to make a list of foods she really needs before leaving home." QaelMy "Many canned foods give the grade on the label. All meats are graded. But with foods that -are in tha pretty packagea with the little windows, all she can aee is the appearance. She can only find out the quality by buying buy-ing a package and trying It at home." "And even then, the Item should not be purchased unless It la one of the foods on tha list," I added. "A recent survey states that one out of three buying buy-ing decisions are unplanned. 33 l3e out of every dollar goes to Impulse buying. And many of these purchasea are In the .fancy class, This often means skimping the -family on other |