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
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Home Economics
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- 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. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Home Economics. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-867K (NAID 514370).
Text on the object
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
