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Cht Vanrourrr Sun wed, feb. 1 1971 FOOD D7 SALE DATES FES. 1st 7th Nibble on these wheat germ crackers Ripe bananas are good When shopping in the produce section of your supermarket remember that extra-ripe bananas are the best ones for some of your favorite banana baking recipes, such as banana breads and cakes. Often they're sold at reduced prices, As a handy rule of thumb, you'll find that three medium bananas make about one cup mashed, two medium bananas yield one cup diced and one medium banana will measure cup when sliced. To ripen bananas, keep them out at room temperature, but they can be refrigerated, when at the desired stage of ripeness.

Bananas will turn dark in your refrigerator, but it's only the skin that's affected. The fruit itself will remain in good condition. Ifilr II ilBlllP" iiillli if mOU, iBliiilifciii 1 McJ vi- (Isi SfOM Grain Fed Tender I Grain Fed Tender Nibble foods aren't necessarily bad for you. The following recipes, calling for wheat germ and other wholesome ingredients, turn out flavorful little wafers that you can nibble on without feeling guilty. Serve them with ether nutritious foods like fresh vegetables and a yogurt dip.

The golden cheese waffle wafers are easy to make. Just shape the dough into small balls, then flatten with a meat mallet to give the waffle effect. Wheat germ thins get their delicious natural flavor and texture from wheat germ plus whole wheat flour and oats. The dough is rolled out very thinly before cutting into diamond shaped pieces. For a rich cheddar flavor the final recipe takes top honors.

If you donl like caraway seeds, you could omit them from the recipe. WHEAT GERM CRACKERS 5 tablespoons oil cup water 1 tablespoon brown sugar, packed cup whole wheat flour V4 cupoats cup toasted wheat germ teaspoonsalt Blend oil, water and sugar. Stir in flour, oats, wheat germ and salt, mixing well. Shape dough into ball. Roll out to tt-inch thickness on unfloured board.

Dough will crack at first but smooths out as it becomes thinner. Using a pastry wheel or large knife, cut parallel diagonal lines 2 inches apart. Cut across first lines to make diamond shapes. Transfer to baking sheet with spatula. Bake in moderate oven, 350 deg.

15 minutes until light golden brown. Cool on racks. Makes about four dozen crackers. WHEAT GERM WAFFLE WAFERS 1 cups grated parmesan cheese 1 cup butter 1 tablespoon water 1 2 drops hot red pepper sauce IV cups all-purpose flour cup toasted wheat germ teaspoon baking powder Beat cheese, butter, water and hot red pepper sauce in electric mixer. Cut in flour, wheat germ and baking powder with pastry blender until mixture forms a dough.

Shape into 72 small balls. Place on ungreased baking sheet. Flatten to tt-inch thickness with meat mallet or fork dipped in flour. Bake In moderate oven, 350 deg. 10 to 11 minutes.

Remove from baking sheet. Cool on rack. Makes 72 appetizer wafers. Note: The parmesan cheese gives i salty flavor to these wafers, although there's no salt in the recipe. CARAWAY CHEESE CRACKERS cup all-purpose flour cup wheat germ 2 teaspoons caraway seeds teaspoonsalt Dash cayenne cup butter or margarine, softened Cfcsrry Vclfey Fresh Fryb HOW TO BEAT THE HEAT THIEVES III YOUR HOME on iiimen Celsius or Farenheit, this winter they both read the same cold! And whether you heat your home by gas or oil, the cost is the same expensive! Here's some good news the February issue oi Readers Uigest shows you how you may be Tcrkey DonelesiDetf able to cut your Home heat ing costs considerably, simply by watching, for and correcting some common, but often overlooked, heat What's more, we'll tell you where you can get information on federal assist -s 1 Ml SNACKTIME FAVORITES wheat germ crackers and waff It waff ers Grain Fed Tender ance programs which could offset the costs you may incur.

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Remove cheddar cheese one hour. to rack to cool. Store airtight in cool, dry Stir together flour, wheat germ, caraway Cut with serrated knife in 316-inch slices place. Makes about 40. seeds, salt and cayenne.

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Ferai Fred Medio Wake up your taste buds with Thai pink dawn salad W3 II Mb Grain Fed Tender EttsleaEriskef nous POT QOAGT SUNKIST NAVEL ORANGES LARGE SIZE onto the opals, cats-eyes and amethysts but' I couldn't take my eyes off that tear-shaped blue sapphire. I had to have it. When he offered to trade me any other stone he had for my jacket, I pounced on him and offered him my jacket and 25 Canadian dollars for the sapphire, if he could prove to me that it was a true sapphire. Looking like a man selling his own child, he made the deal. But first, he scratched lines on a glass bottle we found on the beach.

He even wrapped the sapphire in cotton wool, soaked it all with lighter fluid he had in his pocket and ignited it. The sapphire emerged gleamingly scathed. He told me I was a hard man to deal with and walked sadly away with my jacket while I tore back to the hotel with my jewel. That night I turned down an offer of $100 American dollars from a rich American lady from Geveland who said she was an expert on jewelry. When I got back to Vancouver, I took the stone to my friend, jeweller Benny Pastinsky and proudly asked him to mount it as a pendant for one of my daughters.

Two days later, Ben was back with my gem. He said, "If you want to have this mounted for your daughter, your best bet would be to glue it to the back fender of her bike. It would make a great tail-light. It's pure glass." THAI PINK DAWN SALAD 1 cup rice 1 teaspoon salt 4 hard-cooked eggs 4 small ripe tomatoes 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 cup cooked shrimp 3 medium bananas 2 tablespoons tomato paste 2 tablespoons mayonnaise Paprika Cook rice in boiling salted water until just tender. Drain rice and rinse under cold running water.

Spread rice on a tray to dry and cool. Shell cooked eggs and cut in quarters. Skin, seed and cut tomatoes in wedges. Toss shrimp with oil and lemon juice. Cut peeled bananas into 1-inch long chunks.

Lightly toss together rice, eggs, tomato and shrimp. Dust with paprika and garnish with banana chunks. Combine tomato paste with mayonnaise and serve separately as dressing. Grain Fed Tender Cry-o-vac 4lb1.00 PRIME SOURCE OF VITAMIN New Delhi, a Thai smuggled a durian aboard our jet, a fact that became nauseat-ingly apparent when the air conditioning was turned off prior to take-off. It was so bad the pilot refused to take off and our departure was held up 15 minutes until the guilty Thai surrendered the reeking fruit.) The Thais, like the Japanese and Chinese, eat small amounts of several things at meal-time, instead of tucking into a platter of meat and potatoes as Westerners do.

They eat rice at every meal, small bits of skewered meats, grilled fish and they try to incorporate their rich peanut crop Into as many meals as possible, mostly in peanut-based sauces. They make fine soups, great fried rice and egg rolls and I think they can match any chefs in the world in the reverence with which they handle their fish and shellfish. They also make some imaginative salads, one of which I'll describe to you in a bit. Some of the best tourist buys in Thailand are silks, tailored clothing (I had a lightweight, unlined, seersucker Safari suit tailor-made in just eight hours for $25), art works and jewelry. Now, I seldom risk buying jewelry away from home simply because of the sting factor; I'm convinced I'm going to be had.

But I made a memorable exception at Pattaya Beach. One morning, early, I was walking the deserted beach, barefoot, wearing a pair of shorts and a Lees blue denim combat jacket of which I was fond for knocking about. A husky young Thai, early twenties, wearing a white sailor hat with the brim turned down and wraparound sun glasses joined me and made small talk. He offered to buy my jacket but I declined. He asked me if I wanted to buy some jewels and I said no again.

He pulled a metal cigarette box out of his pocket and showed me, wrapped carefully in cotton wool, some exquisite rough-cut stones. Among them was a gorgeous blue stone that rippled with light. When I asked about it he said, "That's a star sapphire, it isn't for My Thai friend kept trying to tout me Pri-aCib 00AGT Before we get to the eats, I want to tell you a bit about the delights of Thailand and one way to shop for jewelry in the vigorous country that used to be called Siam. We spent a total of three and one-half days in Thailand, two of them in pulsating Bangkok and, on ths return trip from India and Nepal, a restful day and a half at Pat-taya Beach, a lush, elegant resort on the Gulf of Siam. The Thais are admirable people, busy, resourceful and cheerfully optimistic in spite of the flash wars and insurrections which always seem to be swirling around them.

In Bangkok, an intriguing blend of ancient charm and modern sin, everyone is going somewhere. Everyone is tearing around in a small car, a crowded bus, a bike, a pedicab or hauling a cart hell-bent for market. The fact that American troops spent their furloughs in Bangkok has created such a sub culture of drugs and prostitution that the government finally clamped down a midnight curfew that was still in effect when we were there just over a year ago. Like Tokyo, Bangkok is nested with restaurants and open air food markets. Most Thais eat just two meals a day and they take them out of doors, at open air restaurants or hunkered on the ground in their own yards, cooking in blackened pots over open fires.

We visited the mandatory temples and did the canal tours in long, open boats with high-powered outboard motors and saw the so-called River People, who live their lives in and on the muddy rivers and canals. The kids appear to learn to swim like minnows as soon as they learn to walk and they appear to be vibrantly healthy and whooping-ly happy with their life style. We were also introduced to durian, an un-forgetably distinctive melon-like fruit that has tough leaves like an artichoke. The Thais love durian and they say of it, "Tastes like heaven, stir ks like hell." If the smell doesn't turn you blind first, you discover that the pulpy flesh of the durian tastes exactly like Camembert cheese. (When we were flying out of Bangkok to STOM Grain Fed Tender Grain Fed Tender miw Start Rib WONDERFUL FLAVOR: PEARS 11.00 U.S.

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94)0 -tOO 1HM Kn Su. Hw. Unrl Potatoes aren't just good to eat they're fun to play with. Your youngsters will so you can insert them part way into the mouth to make teeth.Thread the needle but don't knot the thread. Push the needle through the potato under the chin and out the other side.

Cut off thread leaving about two inches hanging down. DO this a-few times and you will have whiskers. Cut pieces of yarn into different lengths. Attach with glue all over the crown of the head so it looks like real hair. Now put the shrunken head In a very warm place and it will get as hard as a rock, i yarn, knife, needle and.

heavy duty thread, scissors and glue. Bake the potato in a slow oven, 200 deg. for at least two hours so it's really dry. If there is any moisture left inside, your potato will rot. Then let it cool.

Push the stick into it, being careful not to push it through the top of the potato. Make the eyes by pushing the straight pins through the buttons or sequins all the way into the potato head. Make the nose by cutting a couple of little slits in the potato with your knife. Make a slit for the mouth then break up the noodle into jagged pieces shrunken heads. Have on hand one potato, 12-inch long stick (like a garden stick), two tiny buttons or sequins, two straight pins, one egg noodle, some wool or cotton 4429Kinotwoytmtir Prices effective FEB.

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