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Quantity of Food Cost Strength- giving. Flesh- repairing Breakfast—Bread and Butter. s. d. oz. oz. 2 lb. Bread 3 18 3 3¼ oz. Butter 3¼ 3 — ¼ oz. Tea ½ — — 2 oz. Sugar ½ 1¾ — ½ pint Tinned Milk ½ ¾ ¼ Dinner—Bacon Pudding. 1 lb. Bacon 6 3 3 2 lb. Potatoes 1¾ 7 1 ¾ lb. Flour 2 9 ¾ 2 oz. Suet 1 1½ — Tea—Bread and Butter. 3 lb. Bread 4½ 21 4½ 2½ oz. Butter 2½ 2 — ½ oz. Tea 1 — — 2½ oz. Sugar ¾ 2 — ½ pint Tinned Milk ½ ¾ ¼ Supper—Bread and Cheese. ¾ lb. Bread 1 6¾ 2¼ 3 oz. Cheese 1½ ¾ 1 Total 2 6¼ 77¼ 16

Saturday Meals.

Quantity of Food Cost Strength- giving. Flesh- repairing Breakfast—Bread and Butter. s. d. oz. oz. 1½ lb. Bread 2¼ 13½ 2¼ 3 oz. Butter 3 2¾ — 3½ oz. Sugar 1 3 — 1 pint Tinned Milk 1½ 1¾ ¾ Dinner—Bread and Cheese and Coffee. ¾ lb. Bread 1 6¾ 2¼ ½ lb. Cheese 4 2¼ 2¾ 1 pint Milk, Coffee 1½ 1¾ ¾ Tea—Bread and Butter and Fish. 2 lb. 4 oz. Bread 3¼ 20½ 3¾ 2½ oz. Butter 2½ 2 — 2 Herrings 2 — — 2½ oz. Sugar ¾ 2 — ½ pint Tinned Milk ½ 1 ½ Supper—Bread and Cheese. 14 oz. Bread 1¼ 8½ 1 ¼ lb. Cheese 2 1 1¼ Total 2 2½ 66¾ 15¼

This is the food-table of one of the best of managers. It could not well be simpler, and yet we see that it fails every day, sometimes to the extent of one-third, in providing sufficient nitrogenous or flesh-repairing food; but even so the cost for the three days makes a total of 8s.8½d., or, say, on an average, 3s. a day. Thus it took 1l.1s. a week to feed this family simply and wholesomely at a time when two of its hungry members of eight and eleven were away. The weekly rent to house it in two rooms takes 5s.7d.; to educate the school-going members, 7d. a week must be paid; to keep the fire and lights going (and this, of course, is more expensive than if the fuel could be got in in large quantities) demands 2s.6d. a week; and to provide washing materials another 1s. must be deducted.