It also renders inoperative some of her usual methods of economy at a time when rising food prices make economy more imperative than ever.

To be patriotic and still live on one's income is a complex problem.

This little book was started in response to a request for "a war message about food." It seemed to the author that a simple explanation of the part which some of our common foods play in our diet might be both helpful and reassuring.

To change one's menu is often trying; to be uncertain whether the substituted foods will preserve one's health and strength makes adjustment doubly difficult.

It is hoped that the brief chapters which follow will make it easier to "save wheat, meat, sugars and fats" and to make out an acceptable bill of fare without excessive cost.
Thanks are due to the Webb Publishing Company, St.Paul, Minnesota, for permission to reprint three of the chapters, which appeared originally in _The Farmer's Wife_.
TEACHERS COLLEGE, Columbia University, New York City.
December 1, 1917.
TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I.THE MILK PITCHER IN THE HOME II.