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.

HomeMenus with Meat for Reducing—Summer › With Meat, for Reducing—Summer: Week Two

With Meat, for Reducing—Summer: Week Two

MONDAY

Breakfast

Blueberries

Bran flakes with milk, no sugar

Lunch

Watermelon

Dinner

Broiled lamb chops (one)

Spinach

Carrots

Salad: Watercress and quartered cucumbers, salt and lemon juice dressing

Fresh fruit

TUESDAY

Breakfast

Berries

Glass of milk

Lunch

Asparagus soup

Bran bread (one slice)

Watercress and cottage cheese salad

Dinner

Lean pot roast of beef (no floured gravy)

Beet greens with young beets

Salad: Cucumbers (plain)

Cantaloupe

WEDNESDAY

Breakfast

Melon

Milk or cereal coffee

Lunch

Beef broth

Bran biscuits (one)

String beans

Lettuce heart (plain)

Dinner

Baked roast beef hash with green peppers

Carrots and peas

Salad: Cucumber and tomato (no oil)

Berries

THURSDAY

Breakfast

Berries

Bran bread toasted (one slice)

Milk or cereal coffee

Lunch

Soft boiled eggs (two)

Boiled onions

Salad: Watercress and radishes

Buttermilk

Dinner

Broiled steak

Stewed tomatoes

Summer squash

Salad: Lettuce heart and cucumbers (plain)

Honeydew melon

FRIDAY

Breakfast

Honeydew melon

Milk or cereal coffee

Lunch

Vegetable soup

Triscuit (one)

Lettuce heart (plain)

Radishes

Cottage cheese

Plums

Dinner

Broiled fish with lemon and parsley

Asparagus

String beans

Salad: Romaine and cucumbers (no oil)

Berries

SATURDAY

Breakfast

Muskmelon

Bran flakes with milk (no sugar)

Lunch

Pimento cream cheese

Bran bread (one slice)

Stewed carrots

Lettuce heart (plain)

Berries (no sugar)

Dinner

Broiled lamb chop

New turnips

String beans

Salad: Watercress, cucumbers and radishes

Fresh fruit

SUNDAY

Breakfast

Honeydew melon

Blueberry bran muffins

Kaffee Hag or Sanka

Dinner

Roast lamb (no floured gravy)

Mint jelly

Carrots and peas

Lettuce hearts (plain)

Radishes

Honeydew melon or orange ice

Supper

Cottage or pimento cream cheese

Salad: Watercress

Watermelon

Some fattening foods are permitted in these menus, but their quantity is limited, and hence a person can reduce in spite of them. For instance, when triscuits are recommended the number of biscuits is limited.

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