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Meatless, to Gain Weight—Summer: Week One
MONDAY
Breakfast
Sliced bananas with cream
Whole wheat muffins
Milk or cocoa
Lunch
Creamed potato soup
Graham bread with butter
String beans
Buttermilk or iced cocoa
Dinner
Macaroni and cheese
Spinach
Cauliflower
Salad:
Watercress and sliced tomatoes, mayonnaise dressing
Prune whip
TUESDAY
Breakfast
Sliced oranges and raisins
Rice muffins with butter
Milk, cereal coffee or Kaffee Hag
Lunch
Creamed carrot soup with drop dumplings
Graham bread
Buttered string beans
Cucumbers
Radishes
Strawberries with cream or plain
Iced cocoa
Dinner
Boiled new potatoes
Boiled onions with butter sauce
Spinach garnished with hard boiled eggs
Salad: Romaine and tomatoes, Thousand Island dressing
Cup custard
WEDNESDAY
Breakfast
Strawberries and cream
Whole wheat raisin bread toasted, with butter Milk or cereal coffee
Lunch
Creamed tomato soup
Graham bread
Steamed kohlrabi served with melted butter and chopped parsley
Watercress
Radishes
Berries
Iced cocoa
Dinner
New potatoes dressed with melted butter and chopped parsley
Green peas
Corn on the cob
Salad: Lettuce, tomato, and hard boiled eggs halved, mayonnaise dressing
Vanilla cornstarch molds served with crushed berries THURSDAY
Breakfast
Stewed figs
Rye toast buttered
Milk
Lunch
Poached eggs on graham toast
Stewed onions with butter sauce
Salad: Cucumbers with mayonnaise dressing Berries with cream
Dinner
Asparagus Mashed parsnips Beet greens Baked potato Rye bread and butter
Salad: Lettuce and tomato with cottage cheese nut balls Strawberry mousse
FRIDAY
Breakfast
Blackberries with cream
Corn muffins
Cocoa or cereal coffee
Lunch
Creamed green corn soup
Graham bread
Butter beans
Peas
Radishes
Olives
Fresh fruit
Dinner
Baked green peppers stuffed with brown rice, chopped onions and cheese, tomato sauce
Corn on the cob
String beans
Salad: Combination vegetable, mayonnaise dressing
Fruit cup with whipped cream
SATURDAY
11
Breakfast
Blueberries with puffed rice and cream
Whole wheat raisin bread toast, butter
Milk or cocoa or cereal coffee
Lunch
Creamed leek or onion soup
Triscuit
Green peas
Salad: Lettuce, Avocado and string beans, mayonnaise dressing
Dates
Dinner
Baked macaroni with cheese
Spinach
Buttered beets
Salad: Combination vegetable, mayonnaise dressing
Banana fluff
Iced cocoa
SUNDAY
Breakfast
Cantaloupe
Dates
Cornflakes with cream
Whole wheat popovers
Cereal coffee
Dinner
Green corn and mushroom custard
Asparagus
Boiled new potatoes and green peas
Salad: Lettuce hearts, mayonnaise dressing Ice cream
Supper
Carrots and peas with butter
Strawberry shortcake with cream
If you desire chocolate and have only cocoa on hand remember that cocoa plus fat equals chocolate. Two tablespoonsful of cocoa and a teaspoonful of butter mixed will give approximately the food value of an ounce of chocolate. The flavor is almost exactly the same as that of chocolate.