For the breakfast of the family we will provide oatmeal porridge with a pennyworth of treacle and another pennyworth of tinned milk. For dinner they can have Irish stew, with 1¼ lb. of meat among the ten, a pennyworth of rice, and an addition of twopennyworth of bread to obtain the necessary quantity of strength-giving nutriment. For tea we can manage coffee and bread, but with no butter and not even sugar for the children; and yet, simple fare as this is, it will have cost 2_s._ 5_d._ to feed the whole family and to obtain for them a sufficient quantity of strength-giving food, and even at this expenditure they have not been able to get that amount of nitrogenous food which is necessary for the maintenance of robust health. A little table of exact cost and quantities might not be uninteresting:-- +--------------------------+-----------+--------------+-------------+ | Quantity of Food | Cost | Carbonaceous | Nitrogenous | +--------------------------+-----------+--------------+-------------+ | BREAKFAST--OATMEAL | | | | | PORRIDGE. | _s._ _d._ | oz. | oz. | | 1¼ lb. Oatmeal | 2½ | 14 | 3 | | 1½ pint Tinned Milk | 1½ | 2¼ | 1 | | ½ lb. Treacle | 1½ | 7 | -- | | | | | | | DINNER--IRISH STEW. | | | | | 1¼ lb. Meat | 8 | 3½ | 3½ | | 4 lb. Potatoes | 2½ | 14 | 2 | | 1¼ lb. Onions | 1 | 5½ | 1¼ | | A few Carrots | 1 | ¼ | -- | | ½ lb. Rice | 1 | 7 | ½ | | 1½ lb. Bread | 2¼ | 13½ | 2¼ | | | | | | | TEA--BREAD AND COFFEE. | | | | | 2½ lb. Bread | 3¾ | 22½ | 3¾ | | 2½ oz. Coffee | 2½ | ¼ | ¼ | | 1½ pint Tinned Milk | 1½ | 2¼ | 1 | | +-----------+--------------+-------------+ | Total | 2 5 | 92 | 18½ | +--------------------------+-----------+--------------+-------------+ But note that the requisite quantities for the whole family are 92 oz. of carbonaceous and 23 oz. of nitrogenous substances.