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2 2-Lancaster Farming. Saturday. March 15.1969
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EXTENSION OFFICERS reelected
Thursday night at the regular board meet
ing are; (left to right) Carl H. Herr, 840
Penn Grant Rd., Lancaster, President;
Mrs. David E. Buckwalter, Lititz R 3, Sec-
Steady Increase Noted In
Use Of Convenience Foods
Convenience foods have made
f steady move into the family
meal pattern During the past
ten years, we’ve increased our
spendings on convenience foods
by almost 38 percent, according
to figuies from a United States
Deparment of Agriculture sur
tey.
These figures were based on
32 convenience items, says Mrs
Faith J Buck, extension foods
and nutrition specialist of The
Pennsylvania State University.
Items that inci eased the most in
cluded frozen potatoes, eommei
cial fresh fruit juice, and both
powdered and frozen fruit ades
and punches
Decreases were noted in some
convenience foods Among
these weie roll and muffin
mixes, commercially fiozen
fruits, and canned milk
It seemed to make little dif-
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retary; and Melvin G. Rohrer, Lititz R 3,
Treasurer. Not present was J. Wade
Groff, 644 Beaver Valley Pike, Lancaster,
Vice President.
venience food once stood, she
explains. With the dramatic in
crease in the use of commercial
fresh fruit juices, there was a
decrease in the amount of can
ference where families lived, nec * ■' ulce bought.
Mrs. Buck points out. They shift- Some convenience foods in
ert about 14 percent of their fringe on the use of fresh pro
total food dollar toward conven- ducts, such as potatoes. As use
ience food purchases. of the frozen produce increased.
With more being spent on cer- that of fresh potatoes went
tain convenience foods, we’re down.
spending less somewhere else in Commercially processed soups
the food line because our total showed an increase as did most
food consumption did not go up bakery products, except bread,
that much In some cases it according to the survey. The
may be one convenience food use of ready-to-eat breakfast
taking over where another con- creased considerably,
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brought the group to within
sight of its $l,OOO 00 contribution
goal, adopted last year as a pi i
inaiy part of this yeai’s activi
ties Lariy Herr, 840 Penn Giant
Road, president of the 4-H Club,
indicated that efforts will con
tinue to meet the objective in
full, but that $717 00 has been
subscnbed now to count in the
cunent Faim and Home Fund
campaign
Max M Smith, county agncul
tmal agent, stated that the Club
is the largest unit of its kind m a question and answer period
the state. It meets monthly in 13 a i so planned,
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• Outlook Meeting
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by Amos H. JfunK will Include
such speakers as Dr. Robert F.
Eshleman, Franklin & Marshall
College, discussing the effect of
Uibanization and Social Changes
on the character of Lancaster
County, Edwaid Daniel, Lancas
tei County Planning Commis
sion, discussing the future de
velopment patterns and what are
the choices’, and William M.
Carroll, Penn State University,
discussing the role of Agricul-
lure in the orderly development
of Lancaster County