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DRIED MILK Cuts Costs

STRETCH $17 INTO 21
GOOD MEALS FOR FOUR

By EDITH ADAMS

The Vancouver Sun’s Homemaking Expert

O JOB ts more challenging to the home-maker today than

\ that of keeping within, even pruning down, the food

budget. It’s her first thought: nourishing food in suffi-

cient quantities for her family at a sum she can afford to pay.

After working out these seven-day budget menus, shopping here

and there to get good, average prices, we know that these balanced
meals can be served to a family of four for $17 a week.

One big saving was in milk. the food will be enjoyed when
Powdered skim milk, now avail- eaten.
able locally, costs only seven
cents a quart as against 17 cents
for liquid milk. Except for the 5)
fat of cream, its food properties Sun S Annual

are just as high. Home managers

can let it take the place of liquid C OO k B OO k

milk for baking and cooking.

Those interested in saving food Is Budget -Minded

money, should check the follow-

ing shopping advice to see if Edith Adams’ popular An-
money may not be slipping nual Prize Cook Book is
through their fingers because of suited to the very moderate
unwise buying practices: income. Its recipes take the

PERSONAL SHOPPING simplest of ingredients and,
comes high on the list of ways to with imagination and taste
keep down food costs. You are sense, combine them for appe-
able to select your food carefully tizing results. No British
and see what bargains or cheap Columbia kitchen is complete
foods are available. without this 96-page collec-

tion of good recipes, using

PLAN YOUR MENUS well British Columbia foods—home

in advance to save money. You grown or imported. Before
cut down waste of food this way, the supply is exhausted, make
take full advantage of foods that sure that you have a copy for
are plentiful and, therefore, use in years to come. It’s 26c
usually cheaper, and do away over the counter at Edith
with monotony in your family’s Adams’ Cottage or by mail.

meals by making sure that all

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