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Meatless, for Reducing—Winter: Week Three

MONDAY

Breakfast

Baked apple (unsweetened)

Bran flakes with milk (no sugar)

Postum or Sanka

Lunch

Vegetable soup

Rutabaga or celery cabbage

Celery

Sliced orange (no sugar)

Dinner

Buttered carrots

Spinach with hard boiled egg

Salad: Lettuce, celery and apple, lemon juice dressing

Fruit gelatin

Kaffee Hag

TUESDAY

Breakfast

Sliced orange (no sugar)

Glass of milk or cereal coffee

Lunch

Tomato soup

Whole wheat bread (one slice)

Cauliflower

Baked apple

Dinner

Asparagus tips (canned)

Boiled onions, butter sauce

Salad: Lettuce heart and sliced tomato, strip of pimento (canned), cottage cheese dressing

Fruit salad

WEDNESDAY

Breakfast

Grapefruit (no sugar)

Cereal coffee

Lunch

Spinach with poached egg

Cranberry sauce

Postum or Sanka

Dinner

Celery soup

Rutabaga

String beans

Salad: Celery root, grated carrots, green pepper, cottage cheese dressing

Boiled apple with a few puffed raisins cooked with the apple, no other sweetening

THURSDAY

Breakfast

Apple sauce cooked with raisins (no sugar) Bran flakes with milk (no sugar) Cereal coffee

Lunch

Coddled eggs (two)

Bran bread (1 slice) and butter

Spinach

Buttermilk

Dinner

Cauliflower Mashed turnips.

Stewed tomatoes

Salad: Lettuce and celery stuffed with pimento cream cheese

Fruit gelatin

FRIDAY

Breakfast

Baked apple (unsweetened)

Glass of milk

Lunch

Poached egg on one slice of whole wheat toast

Celery

Buttermilk

Dinner

Vegetable soup

Cauliflower

String beans

Salad: Watercress

Pineapple

SATURDAY

Breakfast

Sliced oranges (no sugar)

Cereal coffee or Sanka

Lunch

String beans

Bran muffins (one)

Spiced apple sauce

Glass of milk

Dinner

Grapefruit cocktail

Boiled onions, cabbage and green pepper

Salad: Lettuce and tomato (no dressing)

Cereal coffee jelly

SUNDAY

Breakfast

Apple sauce, sweetened with raisins (no sugar) Glass of milk

Dinner

Baked macaroni and cheese

Cauliflower

Mashed squash or turnips

Cranberry sauce

Celery

Fruit cup

Supper

Vegetable bouillon

Rye bread (two slices)

Salad: Watercress and eggs

All dressings containing edible oils are fattening. If the one who is reducing hungers for them, take them occasionally but not in large quantities.

Some make dressings of mineral oil, and as this oil is not digested and absorbed it does not fatten.

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