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Fruits and Vegetables

It is desirable to include fruit twice a day. Use fresh fruits in the height of their season. When they are cheapest, store, can and dry them for winter use. Dried fruits, such as prunes, apricots, peaches, dates and raisins, can always be bought in the markets and are probably the most inexpensive of all fruits. Oranges are a particularly wholesome fruit and should be used as often as possible unless replaced by tomatoes.

A child can eat two medium-sized potatoes in a day, and onefourth of a pound or more of the other vegetables. A grown person can eat twice that amount.