LETTER:New mums - what you need is broth

Mrs Christine Smith
Thursday 16 November 1995 00:02 GMT
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From Mrs Christine Smith

Sir: Perhaps pregnant women living on benefit need educating ("Mothers' poor eating puts babies at risk", 14 November).

How about making soup: a marrow bone (a few pence from the butcher), root vegetables, perhaps a tin of tomatoes and some lentils, and bread for the children to dunk. Very nutritious, warming and inexpensive. A teaspoon of yeast extract stirred in would add nutrition and flavour.

Yours faithfully,

Christine Smith

London, E1

14 November

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