Food Facts No.198 Six suggestions for main meal dishes

297 FOOD FACTS Six suggestions for MAIN MEAL DISHES If you are hard put to it sometimes to know what to serve as a main dish, try these suggestions. Your family will be delighted! You'll notice that some of the dishes combine meat and dried beans. These dishes stretch your meat ration, because meat and dried beans are the same kind of food. Meat is first-class protein (or body- building food); beans are second-class protein. But when these two are eaten together, the food value of the beans is increased almost to that of meat itself.