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Show Expert Outlines Cheap Family Diet "The cheapest balanced diet that can be devised is based upon grain foods and milk plenty of milk," says Mrs. Christine B. Clayton, head of the home economics department at the Utah State Agricultural college. "Begin with bread or cereals and milk, add potatoes, raw cabbage and tomatoes, and then, as far as you can afford it, more vegetables and fruits, lean meat, fish, poultry, eggs, butter, cheese, other fats and sweets. The cost of your diet will then be a matter mat-ter of selecting the less expensive article of each different kind." In this field there is a wide choice, Mrs. Clayton points out, including the various kinds of meats, vegetables and fruits. Some of the cheapest cuts of meat; the cheapest vegetables and the cheapest fruits are quite as rich, and sometimes even richer, in food values than the most expensive ones. Each child should have a quart of milk a day and every other member of the family, a pint. Potatoes, and two other kinds of vegetables, one of which is green, should be on the daily bill of fare, as well as one cooked and one raw fruit. If the family menu calls for one I egg.' and plenty of milk, then meat, fish or poultry once a day is sufficient. suf-ficient. Then there is the cereal, the fat and the sweet to be added in the form of whole wheat, oatmeal, rice; salt pork, bacon fat, meat drippings, cooking oils, butter; sugar, honey or molasses. "We must have body fuel, foods to build up the body and protective foods, to build resistance to disease," Mrs. Clayton concludes. |