Do not buy more perishable foods

If you are willing to cut down on refined starch and sugar items, especially fancy baked goods, bottled drinks and canies, a higher percentage of the diet dollar will be released for dairy products, vegetables and fruits.

Do not buy more perishable foods than you can properly store. Use leftovers cold, preferably. To reheat them with minimal loss.

 Summing up, our fundamental effort always must be to provide this highly versatile body of ours with those elements it needs for efficient functioning, and to provide them in such proportions as to subject it to the least possible strain. 

Well-grown minimally processed foods are usually our best sources for complete nourishment; and a well-considered choice of them should in most cases meet our needs without the use of synthetic vitamin preparations.

You will find in this book, along with the classic recipes, a number which remain interesting and palatable although they lack some usual ingredient, like eggs, flour or fat, and which may be used by those who may be allergic.

But we do not prescribe corrective diets, feeling that such situations demand special procedures in consultation with one's physician. As to the all-too-prevalent condition of overweight, it is now generally recognized that the on and off use of crash reducing diets is dangerous, and that a re-education in moderate eating habits is the only safe and permanent solution to this problem;

We stress again that the housewife who has the responsibility for supplying her family with rood will do well to keep alert to advances in the field of nutrition and to the individual needs of herself and her family.