The Book of a Thousand Menus

A thousand menus for 1927 — sixty-seven weeks of breakfasts, lunches and dinners, reckoned to the calorie and the vitamin.

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Meatless, for Reducing—Summer: Week Two

MONDAY

Breakfast

Fresh peaches or plums

Milk or Postum

Lunch

Salad of lettuce, tomato and hard boiled eggs

Blackberries

Buttermilk (1 glass)

Dinner

Beet greens with young beets

Summer squash

One slice whole wheat bread

Salad: Cucumbers on lettuce, lemon juice dressing

Honeydew melon

TUESDAY

Breakfast

Melon

Bran flakes with milk (no sugar)

Cereal coffee

Lunch

Coddled eggs (1 egg portion for one)

Boiled onions

Sliced tomato

Pear

Buttermilk

Dinner

New cabbage (boiled plain)

Carrots and peas

One slice whole wheat bread

Salad: Lettuce and tomato

Blueberries

WEDNESDAY

Breakfast

Plums

Bran with milk (no sugar)

Cereal coffee

Lunch

Watermelon

Dinner

Eggs a la King

Beet greens

Salad: Romaine, lemon juice and sprinkling of salt

Radishes

Raspberries (plain)

YACHT

THURSDAY

Breakfast

Melon

Sanka

Lunch

Carrots

Peas

Salad: Cucumber and tomato (plain)

Fresh fruit

Dinner

Spinach with poached eggs

Stewed tomatoes (fresh)

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Salad: Lettuce hearts

Fruit cup

FRIDAY

Breakfast

Berries

Bran with milk (no sugar)

Kaffee Hag or Postum

Lunch

Puree of green peas

Lettuce and cottage cheese

Iced Sanka

Dinner

Boiled new onions

Corn on the cob

Beet greens

Salad: Lettuce and minced carrots (raw), cottage cheese dressing

Honeydew melon

SATURDAY

Breakfast

Cantaloupe

Bran muffins

Milk or cereal coffee

Lunch

Carrots and peas

Berries

Buttermilk

Dinner

Scrambled eggs with chives

Dandelion greens

Brussels sprouts

Salad: Shredded cabbage, grated raw carrots, chopped cooked beets

Peach gelatin served with sliced peach (fresh)

SUNDAY

Breakfast

Blueberries

Bran flakes with milk (no sugar)

Kaffee Hag or Postum

Dinner

Spinach or beet greens with poached eggs

Summer squash

String beans

Salad: Lettuce, cucumber and sliced pineapple, pineapple juice dressing

Honeydew melon

Supper

Corn on the cob

Green peas

Radishes

Orange ice

Another method of reducing is to eat nothing but juicy fruits three times a day, but no sugar is to be added.

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