Excerpt from Food Efficiency: Or the Best Food for the Least Money
This work is not intended as a text-book for food experts and does not claim to be exact on nutritive values. To arrive at an absolutely accurate calculation of the nutritive values of food consumed by individuals is perhaps an impossible task, even for expert food chemists.
The author's aim is to present a simple account of the food expenses of her own home, with the total calorific value of each item of the food consumed, figured approximately. Recipes and menus are explained in detail, with little talks on some of the different foods.
The housewife who has a fair understanding of nutritive values can select her foods so as to get the greatest amount of nutriment for the least money. This knowledge of values will also assist her to prepare and handle the food in her home in such a way as to reduce waste to a minimum.
The author of the work aims to call attention to errors and wasteful methods, and to suggest better ways. It would be impossible to mention all the good foods in a work of this size, and it so happens that some common and excellent foods have been omitted in the tests.
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