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With Meat, to Gain Weight—Summer: Week Five

MONDAY

Breakfast

Muskmelon

Puffed wheat with cream

Rye toast

Kaffee Hag or cereal coffee

Lunch

Waldorf salad, mayonnaise dressing

Blueberry pudding, lemon sauce

Grape punch

Dinner

Broiled steak

Baked potatoes

String beans

Corn on the cob

Salad: Cole slaw and cucumbers, mayonnaise dressing

Fruit gelatin with berries and cream

TUESDAY

Breakfast

Stewed rhubarb and prunes

Whole wheat toast

Coddled eggs

Milk, Kaffee Hag or Postum

Lunch

Leek and potato soup

Peach shortcake with cream

Raspberry cup (drink)

Dinner

Lamb stew (plain)

Mint jelly

Boiled new potatoes

Green peas

Salad: Lettuce or endive, sliced cucumbers and radishes, mayonnaise dressing

Banana fluff

Sanka

WEDNESDAY

Breakfast

Honeydew melon

Whole wheat raisin bread, toasted

Milk, Kaffee Hag or cereal coffee

Lunch

Creamed beet soup, hot or cold

Wheatsworth crackers

Red raspberry shortcake with cream

Dinner

Broiled veal cutlet

Baked potatoes

Butter beans

Peas

Salad: Endive or lettuce, sliced pineapple and prunes stuffed with cream cheese and walnut meat, mayonnaise dressing

Sliced peaches and cream

THURSDAY

Breakfast

Cantaloupe

Figs

Graham muffins

Boiled eggs

Sanka, milk or cereal coffee

Lunch

Corn on the cob

Butter beans

Graham bread, butter

Salad:

Sliced cucumber and tomatoes, mayonnaise dressing

Rennet

Dinner

Omelet served with slices of crisp bacon

New potatoes (boiled) Lima beans Summer squash

Salad: Cole slaw with grated raw carrots and sliced green peppers, mayonnaise dressing

Banana whip

FRIDAY

Breakfast

Honeydew melon

Dates

Puffed rice with cream

Rye toast

Butter

Kaffee Hag or cereal coffee

Lunch

Vegetable soup with barley

Triscuit

Cottage cheese

Rice pudding with raisins, served with crushed berries or whipped cream

Grape punch

Dinner

Boiled or steamed fresh cod, butter sauce, chopped parsley

Boiled new potatoes Spinach or beet greens

Buttered onions

Salad: Lettuce, cucumbers and radishes, mayonnaise dressing

Cup custard with berries

SATURDAY

Breakfast

Sliced peaches with cream

Graham toast

Scrambled eggs

Kaffee Hag, cereal coffee or cocoa

Lunch

Mutton broth with rice

Radishes

Olives

Cherry cobbler with fruit sauce or vanilla sauce

Iced Sanka

Dinner

Beef bouillon

Cheese crackers

Lobster or crab meat salad garnished with sliced hard boiled eggs, served on lettuce, mayonnaise dressing

Boiled new potatoes

Butter beans

Radishes

Pineapple delight

Kaffee Hag

SUNDAY

Breakfast

Honeydew melon

Grapes

Raisin spiced coffee cake

Milk or Postum

Dinner

Crown of lamb

Mint jelly

New potatoes

Baked egg plant

Peas

Salad: Endive or lettuce, grated carrots and sliced cucumber, mayonnaise dressing

Banana cream sherbet

Sanka

Supper

Jelly omelet

Creamed carrots

Salad: Watercress and tomato, mayonnaise dressing Chocolate éclair

Lime and mint julep

It is a racial habit with us to consume great amounts of meat. But please remember that lean meat is not especially fattening. An ounce of pecans contains as much nourishing or fattening material as four ounces of ordinary lean meat. It is best not to eat meat every day in summer time.

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