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
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Government (Make America Strong poster set; issuing agency not named on sheet), printed by U.S. Government Printing Office
- 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)
U.S. Government Printing Office. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1313D (NAID 514943).
Text on the object
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
