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title: To Keep Bread, Cake, and Cookies Nice protect from insects, mold, and mice
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/to-keep-bread-cake-and-cookies-nice-1942/
description: 'Fight Food Waste in the home chart no. 9: a bread box holding a cake and loaves, and a girl with a cookie jar, with storage rules.'
section: Collection
---

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# To Keep Bread, Cake, and Cookies Nice protect from insects, mold, and mice

Fight Food Waste in the home chart no. 9: a bread box holding a cake and loaves, and a girl with a cookie jar, with storage rules. The technique is faint: a child and ordinary kitchen objects stand for everyday practice.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
TO KEEP BREAD, CAKE, and COOKIES NICE
protect from insects, mold, and mice.
Keep bread and cake separate.
Store bread in a ventilated box.
If home baked, cool before storing.
In hot, damp weather put in refrigerator.
Scald.... air.... and sun the bread box often.
Cookies stay fresh longer in tightly covered jar.
[emblem:] FOOD FOR FREEDOM
FIGHT FOOD WASTE in the home
BUREAU OF HOME ECONOMICS
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
9
[imprint:] 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-465386
```

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