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Meatless, for Reducing—Winter: Week Four

MONDAY

Breakfast

Stewed fruit (unsweetened)

Bran flakes with milk (no sugar)

Cereal coffee

Lunch

Celery soup

Spinach with poached egg

Spiced apple sauce cooked with puffed raisins (no sugar)

Dinner

Baked potato

Cauliflower

Carrots and peas

Salad: Cooked beets on lettuce with cottage or cream cheese

Sliced pineapple and orange

TUESDAY

Breakfast

Apple sauce, sweetened with raisins or prunes

Cereal coffee or milk

Lunch

Buttered carrots

Toasted Triscuit (two)

Buttermilk

Dinner

Vegetable soup

Buttered beets

Cabbage (boiled)

Salad: Lettuce, celery and chopped apples, pimento cream cheese as dressing

Fruit

WEDNESDAY

Breakfast

Sliced orange (no sugar)

Bran muffins (one muffin portion for one)

Cereal coffee

Lunch

Asparagus tips (canned)

Poached eggs (one egg portion for one)

Baked apple (unsweetened)

Dinner

Cauliflower and string beans

Mashed rutabaga

Salad: Lettuce, grated raw carrot, celery and green pepper, cottage cheese or American cheese

Cherry gelatin

THURSDAY

Breakfast

Coddled eggs (two)

Toasted Ry-Krisp

Postum or Sanka

Lunch

Stewed tomatoes

Cottage cheese

Bran muffins (one)

Dinner

Vegetable bouillon

Asparagus tips

String beans

Mashed squash

Salad: Lettuce, tomato and celery (no dressing)

Fruit

FRIDAY

Breakfast

Baked apple (unsweetened)

Bran flakes with milk (no sugar)

Postum or cereal coffee

Lunch

Watercress and cottage cheese salad

Green peas

Carrots

Sliced oranges (no sugar)

Dinner

Tomato soup

Plain omelet

String beans

Salad: Endive, celery, chopped apple and strip of pimento (canned), sprinkled with lemon juice

Cereal coffee jelly

SATURDAY

Breakfast

Stewed apple (unsweetened)

Bran flakes with milk (no sugar)

Postum or Sanka

Lunch

Tomato bisque

Toasted Triscuit (two)

Salad: Lettuce and apple

Sliced orange (no sugar)

Dinner

Vegetable soup

Cheese souffle

Peas

Baked winter squash

Salad: Lettuce heart, cooked celery root, tomato and olives, salt and lemon juice

Cereal coffee jelly

SUNDAY

Breakfast

Grapefruit (no sugar)

Bran muffins (two)

Postum or cereal coffee

Dinner

Eggs a la King with mushrooms

Cauliflower

Buttered beets

Salad: Endive, grated raw carrot, celery Fruit cup

Supper

Cottage cheese with celery

Onions

Peas

Stewed fruit

Prunes, raisins, figs, dates and bananas are also fattening, but this does not mean that those who desire to lose weight need to tabu all of them.

However, those who reduce should partake of these foods sparingly and rather seldom.

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