This section is from the book "Scientific Feeding", by Mrs. Dora C. C. L. Roper. Also available from Amazon: Scientific feeding.
Breakfast. - Rice soup of buttermilk or milk with prunes. Dinner. - Mixed boiled dinner of lima beans, carrots and potatoes.
Supper. - Egg toast or pancakes with fruit sauce.
Cost of additional foods for Monday: Skim- and buttermilk 10 cents, carrots 5 cents, - total 15 cents.
REMARKS: Use part of the milk for pancakes. Leave some for clabber milk.
Breakfast. - Stale bread with peanut-butter and apples. Dinner. - Clabber milk with zwieback, doughnuts or pancakes (prepared with eggs).
Supper. - String beans and meat stew with dumplings.
Cost of additional foods for Tuesday: String beans 10 cents, meat 10 cents, - total 20 cents.
Breakfast. - Cherries with corn bread or egg toast.
Dinner. - Yellow dock on toast. Steamed rice pudding with fruit sauce.
Supper. - Raspberries and fresh milk with toasted bread.
Cost of additional foods for Wednesday: Cherries 10 cents, raspberries 10 cents, milk 10 cents, - total 30 cents.
Breakfast - Left-over yellow dock and Roman meal cakes or bran muffins.
Dinner. - Julienne soup with fried bread. Apple rice with peanut sauce. Raw celery.
Supper. - Asparagus with French dressing or butter sauce and frankfurters or chipped beef and bread.
Cost of additional foods for Thursday: Asparagus 10 cents, meat 5 cents, celery 5 cents, - total 20 cents.
Breakfast. - Rolled wheat porridge with butter. Dinner. - Baked noodles with tomato sauce and lettuce. Supper. - Milk soup with black crusts.
Cost of additional foods for Friday: Lettuce 5 cents, skim-milk 5 cents, - total 10 cents.
Expenditure for staple foods.. | $4.85 |
Total Expenditure for first week | 85 |
Total Expenditure for second week | 1.30 |
Total | $7.00 |
Staple Foods for Two Weeks. | (Cost in Cents.) | |
Stale whole rye and wheat bread | 5 loaves | 40 |
Roman meal | 1 package | 15 |
Cream of wheat | 1 package | 20 |
Rice | 6 pounds | 25 |
Potatoes | 4 pounds .. | 20 |
Raw tomatoes | 3 pounds . | 10 |
Bacon | 1/2 pound | 15 |
Green dried peas | 2 pounds | 10 |
Cow beans | 2 pounds | 10 |
Lentils | 2 pounds | 10 |
Corn meal | 4 pounds | 10 |
Salt | 1 bag | 05 |
Vinegar | 1 pint | 05 |
1/2 dozen .. | 10 | |
Cotton seed oil | 1 quart | 25 |
Olive Oil | 1 bottle | 25 |
Apples | 6 pounds .. | 25 |
Rolled rye | 1 package | 15 |
Rolled wheat | 1 package | 10 |
Corn starch | 1 package | 10 |
Butter | 1 pound . | 20 |
Eggs | 2 dozen | 45 |
Peanut butter | 1 jar | 25 |
Baking powder | 1 can | 15 |
Radishes | 2 bunches | 05 |
Green onions | 2 bunches | 05 |
Walnuts . | 2 pounds | 25 |
Lettuce | 3 heads | 05 |
Celery | 1 bunch | 05 |
Carrots | 2 bunches | 05 |
$4.70 | ||
A few staple foods, such as coffee, bran and a few cereals, are supposed to be left over from the last two weeks. Use peanut butter in place of butter.
 
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