This section is from the book "Scientific Feeding", by Mrs. Dora C. C. L. Roper. Also available from Amazon: Scientific feeding.
Breakfast. - Three raw apples and black bread with lard.
Dinner. - Lettuce salad with French dressing. Baked beans and bread.
Supper. - Milk toast for all.
Cost of additional foods for Sunday: Lettuce 5 cents, milk 5 cents, - total 10 cents.
REMARKS: Re-boil the skim-milk from Friday for cooking or baking.
Breakfast. - Lettuce with syrup dressing. Cornmeal pan-c.ikes.
Dinner. - Milk soup with Roman meal. Bran biscuits with cheese and stewed dried apples.
Supper. - Cream of tomato soup with toast and celery.
Cost of additional foods for Monday: Celery 5 cents, - total 5 cents.
Breakfast. - Chopped apples with syrup dressing and raw rolled rye.
Dinner. - Cream of lentil soup. Tripe with tomato sauce and potatoes.
Supper. - Toast with apple sauce and hot milk diluted with barley water.
Cost of additional foods for Thursday: Tripe 10 cents, - total 10 cents.
Breakfast. - Rolled wheat porridge with butter.
Dinner. - Mustard greens and unleavened pancakes with syrup or fruit sauce.
Supper. - Cream of pea soup with toast.
Cost of additional foods for Wednesday: Skim-milk 5 cents, - total 5 cents.
REMARKS: Flavor the greens with bacon. Use skim-r.'ilk and three eggs for the pancakes. Set part of the skim-uilk for cottage cheese.
Breakfast. - Oatmeal porridge with hot milk. Dinner. - Lima beans with potatoes and frankfurters or bologna.
Supper. - Apple pie with hot milk.
Cost of additional foods for Thursday: Frankfurters 5 cents, - total 5 cents.
Breakfast. - Buckwheat cakes with lettuce or yellow dock and syrup dressing.
Dinner. - Lentil and tomato soup. Cottage cheese with apple salad.
Supper. - Bread pudding with fruit sauce.
Cost of additional foods for Friday: Lettuce 5 cents, - total 5 cents.
Expenditure for staple foods.. | $6.05 |
Additional Expenditure for first week. | 50 |
Additional Expenditure for second week ........ | 45 |
Total ...................................... | $ 7 .00 |
Buy the same staple foods as suggested for the foregoing menus; add to it: Oranges, bananas, cream, peanut-butter, eggs, bacon, cheese, tomatoes, apples, rice, peas, celery, string beans, grapes or other fruits or vegetables.
REMARKS: Use plenty of parsley, pick green leaves such as mint, yellow dock, mustard greens and others on the road or in the country. Keep the eggs on ice or in salt water in a cool place.
Stale, whole wheat, graham and white bread | Cost in Cents. | |
3 loaves | 25 | |
Flour | 10 pounds | 35 |
Stale black bread | 2 loaves . | 15 |
1 package | 20 | |
Coffee beans | 1/2 pound | 1O |
Bran | 1 package | 15 |
Roman meal | 1 package | 15 |
Cream of wheat | 1 package | 20 |
Rice | 6 pounds | 25 |
Potatoes | 4 pounds | 20 |
Tomatoes | 3 cans | 25 |
Bacon | 1/2 pound | 15 |
Green dried peas . | 2 pounds | 1O |
Lima beans . | 2 pounds | 1O |
White beans | 2 pounds | 1O |
Corn meal | 4 pounds | 10 |
Dried prunes | 2 pounds | 1O |
Salt | 1 bag | 05 |
Vinegar | 1 pint | 05 |
Cotton seed oil | 1 quart | 25 |
Apples | 5 pounds | 25 |
Syrup | 1 pint | 05 |
Rolled rye | 1 package | 15 |
Rolled wheat | 1 package | 10 |
Corn starch | 1 package | 10 |
Butter . | 1/2 pound | 20 |
Eggs | 2 dozen | 35 |
Peanut butter | 1 jar | 25 |
Dried apricots | 2 pounds | 10 |
Onions | 1 pound | 05 |
$4. 85 | ||
 
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