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With Meat, to Gain Weight—Summer: Week Four

MONDAY

Breakfast

Melon

Dates or figs

Toasted triscuit

Boiled eggs

Kaffee Hag, Postum or milk

Lunch

Chicken giblet soup, farina balls

Toasted Ry-Krisp

Baked potato

Creamed parsnips

Salad: Sliced cucumbers, oil and lemon juice dressing

Fresh fruit

Dinner

Vegetable omelet

Corn on the cob

Buttered carrots

Salad: Lettuce, kidney beans, chopped peppers or onion,

Indian salad dressing

Cherry gelatin with whipped cream

TUESDAY

Breakfast

Raspberries with cream

Toasted Ry-Krisp

2 coddled eggs

Milk, Sanka or Postum

Lunch

Creamed carrot soup

Graham bread

Radishes

Rice mold with crushed fruit

Buttermilk or raspberry punch

Dinner

Roast veal

Spinach

Boiled new potatoes

Lima beans

Salad: Cole slaw with sliced pimento and cucumbers, creamed horseradish salad dressing

Japanese persimmon or snow pudding

WEDNESDAY

Breakfast

Blackberries with puffed rice and cream Graham muffins

Kaffee Hag or Postum

Lunch

Kidney bean soup

Whole wheat bread

Salad: Combination vegetable garnished with hard boiled eggs, Thousand Island dressing

Honeydew melon

Iced Kaffee Hag or cocoa

Dinner

Cold roast veal or baked veal hash

Baked potatoes

Fresh lima beans

Salad: Lettuce hearts, strips of pimento and tomato, mayonnaise

Banana bisque with whipped cream

THURSDAY

Breakfast

Prunes or melon

Corn muffins

Coddled eggs and crisp bacon

Milk, Sanka or cereal coffee

Lunch

Combination vegetable salad, Thousand Island dressing

Peach shortcake with cream

Iced Kaffee Hag

Dinner

Macaroni with cheese

Beet greens

Stewed parsnips

Salad: Lettuce, cucumber, Avocado, mayonnaise dressing

Prune whip

Iced Postum or fruit punch

FRIDAY

Breakfast

Raspberries

Toasted shredded wheat (split) buttered and served with poached eggs

Milk, Kaffee Hag or cereal coffee

Lunch

Clam chowder

Crackers

Corn on the cob

Summer squash

Salad: Sliced tomatoes, oil and salt dressing Muskmelon or fresh fruit

Dinner

Boiled or broiled lobster or broiled bluefish Baked potatoes

Boiled new cabbage or Brussels sprouts Salad: Romaine, sliced radishes and cucumbers, mayonnaise dressing

Fresh fruit cup

SATURDAY

Breakfast

HT

Melon

Figs

Whole wheat raisin bread toasted, butter Scrambled eggs Milk, Sanka or Postum

Lunch

Creamed tomato soup

Toasted triscuit

Peas

Salad: Shredded cabbage with sliced radishes and tomatoes, mayonnaise dressing

Grape rickey (drink)

Dinner

Broiled lamb chops

Baked potatoes

Kohlrabi

Butter beans

Salad: Watercress, sliced cucumber and radishes, garnished with olives, mayonnaise dressing Fruit gelatin with cream

SUNDAY

Breakfast

Honeydew melon

Dates

Blueberry muffins

Milk, Sanka or cereal coffee

Dinner

Stewed chicken with dumplings or rice balls Mashed potatoes

Buttered carrots

String beans

Salad: Combination vegetable, mayonnaise Bavarian cream

Kaffee Hag

Supper

Plain omelet

Graham bread

Watercress

Radishes

Green peas

Berries

Grape punch

Many have the idea that meat is very helpful in gaining health, strength and weight. It has no great virtue in these lines. Meat contains considerable protein and hence it gives one compound to the body, but it is not as important as most persons think.

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