Your Diet For 1965

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30642, 7 January 1965, Page 8

Your Diet For 1965

Possibly the world’s bestfed person, the New Zealander, has already started to eat his way through 1965. The average New Zealander in 1965 will consume vast quantities of the basic foodstuffs. He will spread on his bread something like 421 b of butter and eat about 61b of cheese. Meat is a substantial part of his menus. He will eat about 1031 b of beef, 781 b of mutton and 171 b of iamb, 151 b of pork and 71b of veal. With 101 b of edible offal and nearly 181 b of ham and bacon as well, he will be on the way to achieving many a square meal. Vegetables accompanying the meat will include an approximate 1321 b of potatoes, 40 to 601 b of cabbage and other leaf greens, and 10 to 151 b of carrots.

About 261 b of tomatoes will be eaten: and the New Zealander will munch his way through 391 b of apples, 201 b of stone fruit and use some 181 b of citrus fruits, not forgetting 261 b of bananas. Adding variety to his diet will be some 51b of poultry and 101 b of fish, helped out by about 26 dozen eggs. He will drink 324 pints of milk, consume nearly four pints of cream and 18 pints of ice-cream. Beer consumption will be about 22 gallons and spirits consumption half a gallon. On top of all this he will smoke 51b of tobacco.

Grass Fire.—One machine from the Sockburn fire brigade attended a small grass fire at the property of Mr G. Rhodes, McAlpine avenue, Sockbum, at 1.32 p.m. yesterday. Little damage was done.