Nutrition

School lunches in wartime

This leaflet contains menu and cooking tips that were aimed at improving the nutrition of schoolchildren.

View PDF: Wisenotes.pdf

The Wartime Garden

This detailed bulletin offers advice for small- and large-scale vegetable gardens and outlines methods for soil preparation, planting, and cultivation.

View PDF: Wartime Garden.pdf

Growing food in wartime

This pamphlet urges civilians with small backyards to produce their own healthy vegetables and offers advice on how to do so under wartime conditions.

"The Lunch Box is on the march"

This pamphlet offers ideas for healthy lunches based on Canada's official food rules and food groups.

View PDF: Lunch Box.pdf

Eat like the RCAF

Inspired by a Royal Canadian Air Force film entitled "Training Tables," this booklet was aimed at improving nutritional standards by encouraging Canadian civilians to eat as well as the men and women in uniform.

View PDF: What They Eat.pdf

Foods for the post-war family

This guide provides rules for post-war healthy eating, approved by the Canadian Council on Nutrition.

View PDF: Family Food.pdf