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Fruit, Starch and Protein Menus: A Week of Menus
MONDAY
Breakfast
Baked apples with or without cream Raisins
Cereal coffee
Lunch
Whole wheat bread with butter
Diced carrots cooked with green peas Sliced cucumbers on lettuce leaves with or without lemon and oil
Dinner
Planked or broiled whitefish with butter sauce Cooked asparagus (no white sauce, for that is starchy) Boiled diced rutabaga
Salad: Shredded cabbage mixed with mayonnaise served on lettuce leaves
Plain gelatin
No fruit desserts are to be served according to this plan, for the fruit is to be confined to one meal.
TUESDAY
Breakfast
Thoroughly ripe bananas, baked if desired Oranges
Glass of milk
Lunch
Boiled whole rice with butter
Baby beets washed and boiled with the tops Diced boiled turnips
Sliced tomatoes
Dinner
Roast leg of lamb with mint sauce Boiled head lettuce with butter dressing Cooked green peas
Salad: Celery served with ripe olives Mixed nuts
Those who are very strict will not take the milk for breakfast, because milk is a protein food.
WEDNESDAY
Breakfast
A large dish of prunes stewed with little pieces of lemon Grapes, apples and pears cut up and mixed; ground pecans for dressing
Cereal coffee
Lunch
Potatoes well baked served with butter Boiled turnips
Kale or tender mustard greens
Olives, preferably ripe
Dinner
Vegetable soup seasoned with butter
Custard made of eggs and milk (no cornstarch) Brussels sprouts
Boiled string beans
Salad: Sliced tomatoes and chopped celery placed over a bed of endive leaves
Those who give strict adherence to this plan must avoid all foods containing cornstarch or flour in the protein meal.
THURSDAY
Breakfast
Thoroughly ripe bananas
Orange cup with either grapes or raisins Postum
Lunch
Whole wheat crackers with butter
Cooked oyster plant
Spinach
Celery
Dinner
Creamed tomato soup
Cottage cheese with thin strips of green pepper Butter beets
Diced celery cooked tender and served with melted butter Salad: Make bed of minced lettuce on salad plates and on this place mounds of grated carrots; garnish with chopped ripe olives and dress to suit Nature does not draw sharp lines in giving us food. This dinner is supposed to be non-starchy, but there is some starch in all vegetables.
FRIDAY
Breakfast
Figs and dates
Apricots, fresh or stewed
Cantaloupe
Lunch
Stale rye bread cut thin and toasted
Fresh butter beans boiled tender and served with butter Spinach
• Watercress
Dinner
Baked haddock with butter sauce
Boiled stringless beans
Stewed onions
Salad: Crisp cucumbers peeled and diced, served with strips of green sliced tomatoes and garnished with strips of green peppers
It is difficult to find desserts with this plan, for rich in most desserts are either starchy or else rich in necessary. protein. However, desserts are not SATURDAY
Breakfast
Berries with cream
Either soaked or stewed prunes
Glass of milk
Lunch
Creamed celery soup
Well baked whole wheat biscuits with butter Large serving of carrots and peas cooked together Radishes
Dinner
Either scrambled eggs or boiled eggs
Boiled new lima beans
Beet greens made from tender leaves
Salad: Dice some crisp cucumbers and chop up equal amount of celery, moisten with mayonnaise and serve on crisp lettuce leaves
Baked almonds
Of course, even the new limas contain considerable starch, so they may be rejected by some in a protein meal, but all vegetables contain some starch.
SUNDAY
Breakfast
Cantaloupe or other melon
Fruit cup of raisins, oranges and pears Cereal coffee
Dinner
Vegetable soup
Smothered chicken (no thickened gravy) Corn on the cob with butter
Either cooked chard or spinach
Salad: Romaine dressed to suit
Ripe olives
Supper
Sandwiches of whole wheat bread buttered and sprinkled with ground pecans
Lettuce heart with mayonnaise
Vanilla ice cream
Those who follow the menus in this chapter often complain of losing weight at first, but sooner or later they can adjust themselves through learning how much food they need. The sweet fruits (such as prunes, raisins, figs, dates and persimmons) are very nourishing.