Get the Good... from vegetables (cook quickly, no soda)
Chart 4 of the Bureau of Home Economics 'Get the Good' set: Photographs of peas cooked in a little water and served in their own juice, plus drawn figures of a clock ('Watch the clock') and a soda box held off by a raised hand ('Don't use soda'). A household-instruction sheet; the persuasive device is faint and rests on the word 'good' and the Food for Freedom emblem.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Bureau of Home Economics, U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Health
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Bureau of Home Economics, U.S. Department of Agriculture. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-867D (NAID 514364).
Text on the object
Get the Good... FROM VEGETABLES • Cook in boiling water.... with no more than needed. Watch the clock.... cook quickly.... stop when tender Don't use soda.... it destroys the vitamins [on drawn box:] SODA • Serve in its own juice or use juice in sauce or soup. × Don't drain "pot liquor" down the sink. [emblem:] FOOD FOR FREEDOM 4 BUREAU of HOME ECONOMICS U.S. DEPARTMENT of AGRICULTURE For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C., Price 25c per set of 10 charts [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942-O-465074
