Food Facts No.277 Seasonable soups

440 Because food value and fuel economy are both important nowadays, choose soups to suit the times. Serve quickly cooked vegetable soups, based on vegetable water or stock made from meat cubes or vegetable extract. them nourishing and sustaining enough for a main dish by adding builder — milk, cheese, eggs, fish, meat, beans, peas or soya. Or try Make broths, made with part of the meat ration, served instead of meat. Because it leaves them no appetite for a meat course, children should not be filled up with large servings of soup, unless the soup is a main dish containing a good helping of builder.