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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, Dec. 12, 1969
‘Poverty Day’ Meals Present
Problems to Housewife
JEWISH CALENDAR
•HANUKA
Dec. 5-12
*TU BISHEVAT
Jan. 22, Sunday
•FAST OF ESTHER
Mar. 19, Thursday
•PURIM
Mar. 22, Sunday
•PASSOVER
Apr. 21, Tuesday
(First Day)
Apr. 28, Tuesday
(Eighth Day)
•HOLIDAY BEGINS
SUNDOWN PREVIOUS DAY
often are on the independent
neighborhood grocery. Here
prices must often be higher in
order to give credit and for other
reasons. Perhaps transportation
or ready cash is unavailable to
take advantage of Ihe supermar
ket specials made possible by
mass merchandising. The lower-
cost dented cans, day-old bread
and vegetables, and “loss lead
ers” may be unavailable to those
who need them most.
In Atlanta, volunteers from
the Temple Youth Group are
now in process of helping change
this for a few. These dedicated
youngsters are spending spare
time scrubbing and painting a
store building in the heart of one
of Atlanta’s low-income areas.
This done, they plan to operate
a non-profit grocery for the lo
cal residents.
In other cities, though not yet
in Atlanta, the National Coun
cil of Jewish Women has star
ted education programs in the
hows of smart shopping and
money management for those in
need of such information.
Within the Jewish community,
Mr. Cohen said, his department
rarely encounters “real starva
tion poverty.” However, finan
cial assistance is sometimes re
quested by older persons on wel
fare who require supplemental
funds to enable them to observe
Kasruth.
Still, though the desperate
need may not exist within the
Jewish community itself, as part
of the larger city and state, it
is well for those of us more for
tunate to give serious considera
tion to the needs of others here
as detailed in the story on page
of this issue.
By VIDA GOLDGAR
“Feed my family for 14 cents
each per meal? Ridiculous.” said
one housewife.
--'“Why, I wouldn’t even know
where to begin,” said another.
From a third came, “Well, you
could always make soup. That’s
nourishing and can be made with
little cost.”
These were some responses to
a survey made after reading Qt
Mayor Ivan Allen’s proclamation
of December 15 as “Hunger Day.”
Atlanta’s Protestant, Catholic and
Jewish social services, along with
the city’s Welfare Rights Organ
ization, have asked Atlantans to
live for that day on a welfare
food budget of 14 cents per person,
per meal.
Stop just a minute and think
about that — 14 cents. On that
budget, which is the amount al
lowed in President Nixon’s new
welfare reform proposal, a fam
ily of six would have $2.52 per
day to spend for food. What’s
your daily budget?
For the ordinary “well-fed
housewife, trying to come up
with a meal for that amount al
most defies the imagination. One
said, “Why, I paid 48 cents just
for one tomato last week.”
To one trained in the econom
ics and nutritional values of
food, however, it presented a
challenge. Mary Erber, Kosher
cateress, after a little thought
was able to come up with one
day’s menu that not only fitted
the mini-budget but was nutri
tionally sound as well. Here it is:
BREAKFAST
1 glass milk 2% cents
1 egg 5 Vi cents
grapefruit sections 3 cents
J1 slice bread 1 cent
LUNCH
Cheese sandwich 6% cents
Glass milk 2% cents
DINNER
Cooked cabbage 4 cents
Black-eyed peas 3 cents
Hamburger patty 10 cents
Coffee 2 cents
Small serving jello 2 cents
Total 41Vt cents
The above can be done by
utilizing powdered milk, cheaper
eggs and using the drippings
from the hamburger to season
the vegetables. This is figured
on the basis of six hamburgers
to the pound, instead of the us
ual four, stretched by soaking
1 slice bread in water to use as
filler.
It took even an expert as Mrs.
Erber a good bit of thought to
come up with this menu for one
day. Planning for a week or
more on this amount of money
allows for very little variety. It
is based on “survival” with no
attempt to incorporate expensive
Kosher food. But it certainly
beats a steady diet of grits,
greens and cornbread.
Several things entered into
Mrs. Erber’s suggested menu:
(a) shrewd shopping; (b) basic
nutrition knowledge and (c)
sensible money management.
Unfortunately, rarely do the
people required to live on such
funds have much knowledge of
any of these three. In many
cases, in poverty areas, it even
becomes impossible to shop
wisely. Leonard Cohen, direc
tor of the Jewish Family and
Childrens Bureau, pointed up
how dependent poverty families
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who appreciates an excellent buy
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