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Show KITCHEN CUPBOARD By NELLIE MAXWELL Marketing for the Home IT IS a heartening sight to visit the big city markets and see the handsome, high-powered cars lined up at the curb and the lady of the bouse walking from stall to stall choosing the food for her family, along with the housewife of the poor man who must count every penny. One of the hardest things for the average woman to do Is to regulate her purchases to the amount she has to spend for food. It takes real self-denial to pass oj the attractive delicacies for the table and confine one's self to the urgent needs. Shop-ping Shop-ping and marketing are One things to develop self-control. In too many households the mar ketlng problem Is left to haphazard buying or the Inst minute order, and so It Is either a fenst or a famine fam-ine to which the family look for ward. The tender cuts of meat do not contain any more nourishment and they Inck the extractives which are found In the more active muscles and so they lock the flavor. Cheaper Cheap-er cuts which are used for meat are often thrown away because ol the Idea that they have lost their food value. The fact Is all the food value Is still there, the lack is In the flavor or extractives, which may be supplied In various ways-adding ways-adding flavorful vegetables, meat sauces and condiments, thus making mak-ing palatable and nourishing dishes from meat left from broths. We are told by those who have made a study of family needs that before a pound of meat Is bougm a quart of milk should supply the dally need of every child In the family. Milk may be used as a drink, as a main dish, In puddings, sauces, with cereals for breakfast and supper. (. '131. Woatern Newspaper Union.) |