To Each His Bone

With wholesale food costs alone going up at an annual rate of 56% over the last three months, two University of Oklahoma seniors cooked up a way to beat the high cost of eating. Terry Arnall and Jerry Dizmang switched to a dog-food diet for every meal last week. "I'm tired of paying 99-c- for a pound of hamburger that just fries away," growled Arnall. "I'd rather pay $1.52 for a ten-pound sack of dog food."

Lest any budget-pinched shopper follow that lead, he had best be advised that a diet of canned, all-meat dog food is overly rich for humans, just as it is for dogs, and can lead to diarrhea, bloating and bad breath. But leavened with cereal-based dog food, it might even surpass in nutrients the diets of snack-happy American teenagers. One of the Oklahoma students' tastier recipes, for instance, calls for two cups of Gaines Gravy Train, heated with water, salt, pepper and garlic. That provides much more protein and vitamin A and B1 than does a lunch of a three-ounce hamburger with French fries and a cola -- at about one-tenth of the cost. Said Arnall: "The dog is eating better than we are." Well, cheaper, anyhow.

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