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With Meat, to Gain Weight—Summer: Week Three

MONDAY

Breakfast

Shredded wheat, blueberries and cream

Buttered rye toast

Kaffee Hag or cereal coffee

Lunch

Vegetable soup

Salad: Lettuce and tomato, French dressing

Brown rice custard with raisins, cold or hot

Grape punch

Dinner

Lamb croquettes, baked, mint jelly

Baked potatoes

Creamed parsnips

Carrots

Salad: Tomato and watercress, Thousand Island dressing

Chocolate éclair

TUESDAY

Breakfast

Blackberries and cream

Corn muffins

Coddled eggs

Sanka, milk or cereal coffee

Lunch

Iced tomato bouillon

Radishes

Olives

Blueberry pudding, lemon sauce

Grape juice

Dinner

Crab meat salad garnished with hard boiled eggs

Corn on the cob

Green peas and butter beans

Olives

Fruit gelatin

Kaffee Hag

WEDNESDAY

Breakfast

Honeydew melon

Grapes Blueberry muffins

Kaffee Hag, milk or Postum

Lunch

Creamed onion soup, drop noodles Wheatsworth crackers

Baked potatoes

String beans

Radishes

Olives

Blueberries

Grape juice and limes

Dinner

Roast beef, natural gravy

Mashed potatoes Butter beans Buttered beets

Salad: Lettuce, cucumber and sliced pineapple, mayonnaise dressing

Banana fluff

THURSDAY

Breakfast

Cantaloupe

Grapes

Graham gems

Scrambled eggs

Sanka, cereal coffee or milk

Lunch

Lima beans

Buttered carrots

Sandwiches of graham bread and butter

Salad: Watercress, sliced cucumber, tomato, mayonnaise dressing

Raspberry mint (drink)

Dinner

Veal Soup, farina balls

Roast beef hash with green peppers (baked)

Cauliflower

Beet greens or spinach

Salad: Chopped beets, carrots and green peppers, mayonnaise

Pineapple cream dessert

FRIDAY

Breakfast

Muskmelon

Grapes or raisins

Whole wheat raisin bread toasted

Butter

Milk, Kaffee Hag or cereal coffee

Lunch

Green corn soup with soft noodles

Cheese soufflé

Stewed tomatoes

Salad: Sliced cucumbers and watercress

Wheatsworth crackers

Raspberry mint (drink)

Dinner

Boiled salmon, egg sauce

Baked potato

Lima beans

Peas

Salad: Shredded cabbage, sliced pimento, radishes and tomatoes, sour cream salad dressing

Jellied custard, served with crushed fruit or cream

SATURDAY

Breakfast

Puffed wheat

Raspberries and cream

Rye bread toasted

Butter Coddled eggs

Postum, Sanka, milk or cereal coffee

Lunch

Split pea soup

Triscuit

Creamed new cabbage

Salad: Apricots, pears and nuts on lettuce, mayonnaise dressing

Fruit nectar (drink)

Dinner

Lamb stew

Baked potatoes

Kohlrabi

Carrots

Salad: Combination vegetable, Thousand Island dressing

Snow pudding

Kaffee Hag

SUNDAY

Breakfast

Puffed rice with berries and cream

Blueberry muffins

Kaffee Hag, milk or Postum

Dinner

Broiled chicken

Potato puff

Asparagus

Peas

Salad: Waldorf, mayonnaise dressing Ice cream with crushed fruit

Sanka

Supper

Vegetable consomme

Cheese bits (crackers)

Sandwiches: Prunes, nuts, cream cheese and lettuce leaves between whole wheat raisin bread

Radishes

Olives

Pineapple highball

Many fail to gain weight because they worry and fret and give way to anxiety so much. It is far easier to gain weight when the mind is tranquil than it is with the emotions upset. Cultivate serenity of mind.

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