FOOD SUPPLIES FOR TIMES OF word

WHEN IN NEED...

We should be more interested in utilizing -vegetable. S to the full. If the outer leaves of lettuce are a bit tough, we caii use them to make soup, together with whit cabbage leaves and kohlrabi leaves. Boil and strain them, acid potato. grain flakes or whole rice, and you have a really tasty soup. Basically it is of no disadvantage if food shortages teach us to appreciate and use everything the earth produces. Je would then never find half- eaten apples in the gutter and is half loaves 0W’ bread in the dustbin. Wild vegetables of all kinds should be used too, for example stinging nettles, dandelion leaves and which spinach, since these are rich in calcium,, iron, potassium, magnesium, and other important minerals. But we shon11 make sure to pick these plants on fallow fields and clean meadows, in other words, on unfertilized land.

TO SATISFY OUR SWEET TOOTH

The situation is different if ire sweeten with 1zoney or grape sugar, there being nothing wrong -with them health-wise. So we will not forget to stock them. Both will Keep indefinitely and can be called the 1,est and most coricentratd carbohydrates. We know this to be true of honey, and since gripe sugar (dextrose) is made from concInsed grape juice, this evaluation rightly refers to it too. Dire & fruits are an excellent means c3f satisfying our sweet tooth, bin it is not recommended to. Keep tame very long, because they crystallize and are liable to get mites.. It could happen that at the end of a yarn, instead of raisins or apricots, you find nothing but powder in the box. Besides, a repulsive sour smell would indicate that the rites had done away with o.ir entire stock of dried fruit.

Problems with storing

Almonds could also be part of our eirnergency stock, because they keep lager than hazelnuts - But i.infortunately there are some ir sect pests that love almonds. So if ve do not regularly check our stocks we may discover an invasion of these pests, despite tightly closed jar. The white larvae that prefer almonds are about 1 cm I’m, and we have to thank the pests. for them. On the other hand, this how that almonds mist be god for us, for insects are not attracted to food with no niitritiona.1 value. learn to live with contentment in spite of having less. Following through on the foregoing advice cn only do us the utmost good.

So as t derive full benefit, we flush think carefully and take appropriate precautions with our stipples. It is best to keep our stocks in -drums of hard “Pavatex” cr plywood. They must have a lil that can be clamped down-n, so firmly closed that rats, mice and cheeps is -will be prevented from enjoying themselves. Those of u who live lived through the food shortages of two world wars a.3e less fearful than those who have only known prosperity with its affiance Nevertheless, it is good at to be absolutely unprepared and take ty surprise.