The purpose of this study was (1) to determine some of the problems in family food management of young home-makers and (2) to make recommendations for more effective teaching of food management to students living in the home management residence of the School of Economics. With the use of schedules especially prepared for this study,information relating to food management was collected from a group of 80 young homemakers whose husbands were students at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute during the 1961-62 academic year / Master of Science