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, to Gain Weight—Winter: Week One

MONDAY

Breakfast

Stewed prunes

Whole wheat muffins

Cocoa, milk or cereal coffee

Lunch

Lentil soup

Poached eggs on rye toast

Spinach

Celery

Baked apple

Dinner

Creamed tomato soup

Graham bread

Spaghetti and cheese

Boiled onions, butter dressing

Salad: Celery and lettuce hearts, mayonnaise dressing

Olives

Cereal coffee jelly with cream

TUESDAY

Breakfast

Sliced oranges and raisins

Corn bread

Coddled eggs

Milk or cereal coffee

Lunch

Corn pudding

Carrots and peas

Graham bread

Baked apple

Kaffee Hag or Postum

Dinner

Vegetable soup

Graham bread

Buttered beets

Spinach

Salad: Romaine, pimento and hard boiled eggs, mayonnaise dressing

Apple tapioca pudding

WEDNESDAY

Breakfast

Baked apple with cream

Whole wheat toast

Boiled eggs

Sanka or cereal coffee

Lunch

Baked beans (no pork)

Stewed tomatoes

Rye bread

Celery

Olives

Apple sauce

Dinner

Creamed potato soup, soft noodles

Boiled cabbage Carrots and onions dressed with butter

Salad: Cole slaw, mayonnaise dressing

Fruit gelatin with cream

THURSDAY

Breakfast

Prunes

Corn bread

Poached eggs

Cereal coffee or Postum

Lunch

Lentil soup

Rye bread

Boiled oyster plant and rutabaga

Salad: Lettuce hearts, melted butter dressing

Baked apple

Dinner

Green peppers stuffed with boiled rice, chopped onion, celery, pimento and grated cheese, served with halves of hard boiled eggs

String beans

Carrots

- Salad: Celery, sliced green pepper, diced apples, mayonnaise

Prune whip

FRIDAY

Breakfast

Silver prunes

Whole wheat raisin biscuits, butter

Cocoa, milk or cereal coffee

Lunch

Split pea soup

Butter thin crackers or rye bread

Cauliflower

Celery

Raisins or dates

Dinner

Baked potatoes

Stewed corn

Mashed turnips

Salad: Lettuce hearts and kidney beans, Thousand Island dressing

Date hash

SATURDAY

Breakfast

Stewed apricots

Whole wheat raisin bread toasted, butter

Milk or cereal coffee

Lunch

Creamed tomato soup

Corn bread

Boiled onions, butter dressing

Celery

Olives

Apple or pear

Dinner

Baked sweet potatoes

Stewed parsnips String beans

Salad: Combination vegetable with hard boiled eggs, mayonnaise dressing

Apple delight

SUNDAY

Breakfast

Grapefruit

Raisins or dates

Spiced coffee cake

Cocoa, milk or cereal coffee

Dinner

Chestnut cutlets, mushroom sauce

Cauliflower

Buttered beets

Salad: Waldorf, mayonnaise dressing Peach bread pudding

Café noir (cereal coffee)

Supper

Creamed celery soup

Butter thin crackers

Baked potatoes

Peas

Celery

Olives

Ordinarily navy beans should be eaten with plenty of vegetables and nothing else. When a person is gaining weight another starch may be used in the same meal. Please remember that the menus for gaining weight are not balanced. The same is true of the menus for reducing weight.

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