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title: You can plan and prepare balanced meals for your family
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/plan-and-prepare-balanced-meals-1941/
description: 'Make America Strong set, poster 9: a photograph of a woman in a striped dress washing lettuce over a pot in a tiled kitchen.'
section: Collection
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[![You can plan and prepare balanced meals for your family, 1941 US poster: Make America Strong set, poster 9](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/plan-and-prepare-balanced-meals-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/plan-and-prepare-balanced-meals-1941.jpg)

# You can plan and prepare balanced meals for your family

Make America Strong set, poster 9: a photograph of a woman in a striped dress washing lettuce over a pot in a tiled kitchen, vegetables on the counter and a chart headed 'Daily Food Habits' on the wall. The headline tells the viewer 'You can plan and prepare balanced meals'. The technique is faint: a plain-folks domestic scene paired with a positive, unspecific promise.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
YOU CAN PLAN
and prepare
balanced meals for your family
[sign on wall in photograph:] DAILY FOOD HABITS [remaining chart text illegible]
[imprint:] Make America Strong (set of 13 posters) . . . . . Poster No. 9
[imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1941—O-292318
```

[← Place Supplies](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/place-supplies-camouflage-1941/) [Play fair. Share the meat →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/play-fair-share-the-meat-sponsor-sheet-1941/)

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