Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 11, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press women s news tuesday March 11, 1975 canadians could eat better for by Nancy Craig the latest report of the fed eral food prices review Board is a Short course in nutrition a practical food shopping guide and a pricing Survey rolled into one. Released last month the what Price nutrition report provides information that could help stretch your food Dollar to buy a nutritionally adequate diet families or individuals. Concerned about rising food prices the Board set out document just How much to nutritious diet. Well balanced would Cost. It found about a week or year would buy enough food to satisfy the nutritional requirements of a family of two adults a teen age boy and a Young girl based on average food prices in cities across Canada during the last three months of 1974. The costs of the Board s nutritious grocery list were a bit higher than a week in Van Couver and the Atlantic prov inces and a bit lower in on Tario Quebec and the Prairie provinces the report suggested this Cost could be reduced even fur ther by shoppers taking and Van Trage of Price by buying the least expensive brands by substituting lower Cost products of the same nutritive value wherever possible and by buying in bulk when it would reduce unit costs. After studying Canadian in come Levels the Board concluded most families can afford to eat nutrition ugly. Crush of Cotton Spring comes in with the biggest crush on Cotton in years. Cotton with a like this Algo version of the big dress in newest crush effect Cotton. Loose easy fitting top wide belted flip skirt. Oatmeal mint Blue collectively. 35.00 from the Algo Spring collection of one and two piece styles. Sizes 8 to 16, 30.00 and 35.00 drum on four downtown 341 Polo Park Eaton s Eaton s the store for All seasons but when the Board looked at actual food expenditures and at the nutritional status of canadians it also concluded that most canadians Aren t making the most efficient use of their food dollars. They could eat better for less. Using statistics Canada food consumption data the _ Board found the average four person family was spending about a year on food about More than was calculated by the Board to be Neces sary for adequate nutrition. Yet the nutrition Canada re port showed a sizable portion of the population in t properly the review Board report Points out. By carefully selecting cheaper foods High in nutritive value people could reduce their food Bills the report said giving practical suggestions on How this could be done. Copies of the report Are available free from the food prices review Board to Box 1540, station a Ottawa Kip 5z5. The enquiries Centre of information Canada located in room 300, 960 Portage Avenue Winnipeg r3g or4 will also distribute copies upon written or Telephone request. Much of the 41-Page report is devoted to formation. Basic nutrition in there Are descriptions of the functions of the major nutrients and what foods Are Good sources. Charts show which nutrients canadians seem to Lack. A table tells the amounts of major nutrients recommended for daily con sumption by people of different age groups. Canada s food guide is there too along with information on How to maximize shop within each food of the report is Ping dollars group. The basis the 56-item food list organized according to the food guide s five food groups. Only Basic foods Are included convenience foods would up the Cost. Realizing people s food preferences differ the Board included a food substitution list which ranks foods according to the Cost per unit of specified nutrients. For example in the vegetable group which supplies Vitamin a Vitamin c and folic acid Broccoli cabbage carrots and potatoes Are among those listed As the least expensive sources Brussels sprouts Corn celery and tomatoes would be More expensive sources and mushrooms would be even More expensive. In the meat and alternates group supplying Iron and pro Tein baked Beans eggs Ham Burger liver Peanut butter and sardines Are listed As the least expensive sources while Bacon beef Blade or Chuck steaks and roasts beef Tongue Bologna Chicken Perch tuna Are among those second category. And wieners listed in the Side Bacon cod halibut her ring Lamb and Salomon Are listed As the most expensive meat sources of Iron and pro Tein. The report suggests two changes in food consumption patterns which would Likely re sult in lower food Bills of most families without decreasing the nutritional adequacy of the diet spending less Money on expensive protein foods and More on Vitamin and Mineral containing fruits and vegetables. The Board s reference family spent 24 per cent of its food Dollar on meat and alternates Beans eggs and Peanut but when determining the consumer Price Index. Statis tics Canada found Consumers were actually spending about 38 per cent of the food Dollar on these items. Comparing the two percent Ages the report says a reduction in expenditure on protein causes a significant reduction in the Cost of the Basket yet the amount of protein in the Montreal women graduate from diesel truck course Montreal up this might come As a Shock to male chauvinists but three Montreal housewives have just graduated As qualified diesel truck Drivers. Judy o Connell Amie Papin e a u and Margaret Kellins Learned How to handle every thing from Little pickups to double clutch five four trans Mission two stick tractor trailer models at a six week Drivers course at the Ecol Des Rentiers professionals in Montreal North. They suffered through some Good natured teasing at first but after scoring top Marks in theory and practical examinations they were accepted by the men in the course. An instructor Adolph Legace said they knew their theory better than the and that leaves tire Marks All Over the old husbands tale about women not being mechanically minded. At this school we teach our Drivers to be More gentle with the transmission than they Are with a he said. Be cause women Are born to be gentle they Are Good at operating the the women were briefed in everything from heavy loads to traffic accidents in the course. The manpower depart ment paid tuition fees for mrs. O Connell and mrs. Papineau. I got tired of doing Boring women s jobs with no said mrs. O Connell 23, a Mother of one child who has also worked As a medical Secre tary Legal Secretary and cof fee truck Driver. With the school s certificate she Hopes to earn a year. Although her family thought it was strange at first they have adjusted and now a lot of her friends Are jealous she said. Mrs. Papineau 29, said she wrote to several trucking companies inquiring about getting a driving Job and was referred to the school. Husbands come around in the she said of her spouse s Early objections. Mrs. Kellins Mother of four grown children likes driving trucks so much she paid for the course herself and left her Job As a psychiatric nurse. The course has been open to women since the school s inception nine years ago. All three expect some difficulty Landing their first jobs. They said employers Are Likely to think it s mainly because it s new in Quebec. But the fact that we be gone through the school shows we re said mrs. Kel Lins. Margaret Kellins one of three women who graduated from a Montreal course in diesel truck driving Waves from the cab of a tractor trailer. The course lasted six weeks and the women could earn a year if they get jobs. Tramline weekends for Sudbury pair Hunting and trapping Are nothing new to Gail Beaucage a Sudbury Secretary who spends week ends with her machinist Hus band Larry on their tramline. Her late father Andy Tyson was an almost legendary Wolf trapper and Gail an Only child worked with him on the trap lines at Tyson Lake from the time she was a five year old. Tyson Lake is named for her great Grandfather came to the area about 100 years ago from England. When her father died seven years ago Gail took Over his tramline and made that year trapping Beaver Muskrat Mink and Fox while she attended High school. She said she carries a Rifle when she checks her tramline. The animals Are alive you see. You grow up with killing when it is your livelihood. If i Don t do it some other trapper mrs. Beaucage Hunts As Well As traps anything that comes up in front of my she and Larry have been married two years. The first year they lived in the trapper s Shack they own on the tramline. Now living during the week in Sudbury they head out 70 Miles each Friday to Tyson Lake. If we could make enough Money trapping full time we d prefer living in the she said. You re so free. When you Are trapping you know everyone and it is so Beautiful. There Are always Birds and animals to the Beau cages have no fears of survival in the Bush Al though at times the tempera lure can drop to 35 below Zero. Luncheon speaker Pat Watrin instructor of the total woman course will speak at a luncheon meeting of the West Winnipeg Branch of Christian women s clubs to . March 17 at the International inn St. James Assiniboia. Masfee Comy meet the Manitoba division of the Canadian cancer society will sponsor a meeting for women who have had mastectomies and others interested 8 . W c d n c s d a in the general Centre room h415, of the health sciences Centre Wil Liam Avenue. They leave the Cabin about 7 . Travel along the 40 Miles of tramline each Day partly by snowmobile and partly on foot. When the seven month trap Ping season ends in May they turn to fishing camping work ing As guides at tourist Camps and repairing traps for the next season. At pianos duo pianists Ann and Harold Lugsdin will perform works by Brahms and Saint Saens at the final concert of the season of the wednesday morning Musi Cale . Wednesday in the Assembly Hall of Eaton s downtown store. Shillelagh sos Belfast Northern Ireland special was Maureen dumps by 57, is first president of the save our shillelagh committee just organized Here. Three out of four shillelagh made in Belfast now arc exported More than halt of them to reported mrs. Dempsey. I Don t know what we can do about it but Well do diet is still adequate to meet the nutrient requirements. For fruits and vegetables the Board s reference family spends about 29 per cent of the food Dollar statistics Canada figures show Consumers spend about an 18 per cent share on these items. The inclusion of a relatively Large amount of fruit and vege tables in the boards Basket provides adequate intakes of needed vitamins and Miner the report says adding that the nutrition Canada Survey found that a consider Able percentage of the Popula Tion did t eat enough foods Rich in vitamins a and c and folic acid As Well As Iron and the report concludes the unnecessary discrepancy Between what foods canadians buy and what they should and could be buying stems primarily from a serious Lack of awareness about nutrition at All Levels of Canadian it makes eight recommendations for government and food Industry action to improve the general level of knowledge about sensible eating habits and to encourage buy cheaper and Titus foods. Shoppers to More nutria ladies i facial hair removed permanently by latest electrolysis Short wave method safely quickly the dermis Institute 400 bold bide Portage at Edmonton 942-4110 Tel flushed 1949. 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