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—Winter: Week Two

MONDAY

Breakfast

Sliced oranges

Bran muffins (one)

Cereal coffee

Lunch

Pecan nut meats

Cooked carrots

Celery

Apple or pear

Dinner

Plain boiled cabbage, dressed with a small amount of butter

Mashed turnips (white or yellow)

Salad: Lettuce, endive, tomato, cottage cheese dressing

Fruit cup

TUESDAY

Breakfast

Raw fruit (apple or pear)

Bran flakes with milk (no sugar)

Cereal coffee

Lunch

Spinach

Oyster plant

Celery

Sliced oranges

Buttermilk

Dinner

Onion and carrot soup

Cauliflower

Salad: Cooked string beans, lettuce and celery, garnished with slices of hard boiled eggs

Cereal coffee gelatin

WEDNESDAY

Breakfast

Boiled apple, unsweetened

Kaffee Hag or Postum

Lunch

Vegetable soup

Asparagus tips

Sliced orange (no sugar)

Dinner

Eggs a la King

Spinach

Celery

Fruit salad (no dressing)

THURSDAY

Breakfast

Stewed prunes (unsweetened)

Postum or Sanka

Lunch

String beans

Cottage cheese

Ry-Krisp

Sliced orange

Dinner

Spinach with hard boiled eggs

Carrots and peas

Salad: Lettuce, celery, green pepper and strips of pimento (canned), pineapple juice for dressing

Shredded pineapple with sliced orange

FRIDAY

Breakfast

Grapefruit

Bran muffins (one)

Kaffee Hag or cereal coffee

Lunch

Vegetable soup

Carrots and string beans

Baked apple (unsweetened)

Dinner

Oyster plant

Rutabaga

Salad: Endive, grated raw carrots, celery, pimento, cottage cheese dressing

Fruit gelatin

SATURDAY

Breakfast

Grapefruit (no sugar)

Cereal coffee or Sanka

Lunch

Vegetable bouillon

Bran muffins (one)

Stewed okra and tomatoes

Apple

Dinner

Beet and carrot soup

Spinach with hard boiled eggs

String beans

Celery

American cheese (small portion)

Sliced pineapple

SUNDAY

Breakfast

Baked apple (unsweetened)

Milk or Postum

Dinner

Mushroom omelet

Peas and carrots

Salad: Lettuce, string beans and celery, drawn butter dressing

Fruit gelatin

Supper

Tomato bisque

Bran muffins (one)

Sliced oranges (no sugar)

Nuts are among the most fattening and nourishing of foods, but a few of them may be eaten for variety's sake while reducing. If they are taken in large amounts and frequently they maintain the weight.

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