This section is from the book "Scientific Feeding", by Mrs. Dora C. C. L. Roper. Also available from Amazon: Scientific feeding.
Breakfast. - Bran muffins with stewed prunes.
Dinner. - Water rice with raisins or currants. Nuts.
Supper. - Corn starch pudding with stewed prunes and black crusts.
Cost of additional foods for Sunday: 1 pound of nuts 10 cents, raisins 5 cents, - total 15 cents.
REMARKS: Prepare the corn starch pudding on Saturday. Use balance of skim-milk with one-half water, a piece of butter, the yolk of an egg. some salt and a little sugar.
Breakfast. - Rolled rye with butter and syrup.
Dinner. - Noodles with tomato sauce and liver.
Supper. - Potato soup with parsley and toast. (Prepare with fat, flour and left-over gravy from liver.)
Cost of additional foods for Monday: Liver 15 cents, - total 15 cents.
Breakfast - Corn bread or fried mush with lettuce and syrup dressing.
Dinner. - Dried peas with flour dumplings and bacon sauce. Stewed prunes if desired.
Supper. - Corn meal porridge with skim-milk.
Cost of additional foods for Tuesday: Skim-milk 5 cents, lettuce 5 cents, - total 10 cents.
Breakfast. - Oat meal porridge with butter.
Dinner. - Lima beans with frankfurters and raw carrots.
Supper. - Stale bread with prune jam. Fresh milk diluted with barley water.
Cost of additional foods for Wednesday: Beans 5 cents, frankfurters 10 cents, fresh milk 10 cents, carrots and parsley 5 cents, - total 30 cents.
Breakfast. - Rolled wheat porridge with butter.
Dinner. - Apple salad with lettuce. Blood or liver sausage with rolled rye or black bread or baked oatmeal with cranberry sauce and celery.
Supper. - Tomato and lentil soup with fried bread.
Cost of additional foods for Thursday: Lettuce 5 cents, sausage 15 cents, - total 20 cents.
Breakfast. - Porridge from any kind of cereal with butter.
Dinner. - Cooked greens (pick some mustard or yellow dock on the street). Bread or flour dumplings with creamed fresh or salted codfish.
Supper. - Milk soup from stale bread and skim-milk.
Cost of additional foods for Friday: Fish 10 cents, skim-milk 5 cents, - total 15 cents.
Expenditure for staple foods | $4.95 |
Additional expenditure for first week | .95 |
Additional expenditure for second week | 1.10 |
Total............................. | $7.00 |
Staple Food for Two Weeks: | Cost in Cents. | |
Baking powder | 1 can | 15 |
Dried apples | ..2 pounds | 15 |
Pearl barley | ..2 pounds | 10 |
Flour | 10 pounds | 35 |
Sugar | 1 pound .. | 05 |
Rice . | ..2 pounds | 10 |
Eggs | 1/2 dozen . | 25 |
Apples | ..6 pounds | • 25 |
..2 pounds | 10 | |
Shoulder of mutton | ..3 pounds | 15 |
Dried peas | 2 pounds | 10 |
Beans | .2. pounds .. | 10 |
Lentils | 2 pounds .. | 10 |
Bacon | 1/2 pound | 15 |
Corn meal | _3 pounds | 10 |
Rolled rye | 1 package | 15 |
Oats | 1 package | 10 |
Wheat | 1 package | 10 |
Onions | 1 pound .. | 05 |
1 head | 05 | |
Lettuce | ..3 heads | 05 |
Black bread | 1 loaf | 10 |
Whole wheat flour | ..2 pounds | 10 |
Buckwheat flour | 1 package | 15 |
4 pounds | 20 | |
Cotton Seed Oil . | .2 quarts .. | 50 |
Cheese | 1/2 pound | 10 |
Apples | ..6 pounds | • 25 |
Butter . | 1/2 pound | 20 |
Tomatoes | ..3 cans | 25 |
Milk delivered for two weeks. | 1 quart per day | 1.25 |
Crackers | 1 package | 05 |
Nuts | 2 pounds | 20 |
Total.. | $6.05 | |
 
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