CAMP FOOD

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 58, 5 September 1940, Page 10

CAMP FOOD

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—l would like to agree in every particular with "Just a Soldier's Wife's" criticism of the diet in camps. At the pictures recently I saw a film of a man who had carried out great endurance tests. In front of him on a table was spread the food he had found gave him the greatest strength. It was raw greens, steamed vegetables of all sorts, raw carrot, fresh milk and eggs, cheese and fruit, and whole grains. Meat and white flour to excess, with vegetables from which all the goodness has been washed away, would very soon kill an animal. It may not kill a man at once, but it will not bring his body to its greatest perfection.-! am, etc., CQMMON SENgE>

(To the Editor.) Six—l read with surprise a letter from'"Just a Soldier's Wife." My husband went overseas with the Second Echelon. While he was in camp at Trentham he said the food was good, well cooked, and, above all, there was plenty of it. One could not expect exactly the same as he would get at home, but we must remember this is war time, and why complain? We surely must remember that one man cannot get all the fuss because he has been used to such nice wholesome food at home. My husband always/had the best of food, but he still said the «camp food was all that could be desired. I have had several relations go overseas and they all have the same opinion as my husband, no need for complaints.—l am, etc.,

ANOTHER SOLDIER'S WIFE.