1st Day

Breakfast

Poached egg on toast, cocoa.

Lunch

(about 4 hours after breakfast) Milk with bread, crackers or cereal or milk punch if indicated.

Dinner

(4 - 6 p. m., according to time of breakfast) Oyster stew with crackers, buttered toast, very weak tea or coffee.

Supper

(7 or 8 p. m.) Milk toast, or split Boston crackers toasted, buttered and moistened with tea. Wine jelly.

2nd Day

Breakfast

Soft boiled egg, omelet, or jelley omelet.

Weak coffee. Half orange or grape fruit, juice alone swallowed.

Lunch

Cup custard.

Dinner

Chicken panada, toast, gelatine jelly with whipped cream.

Supper

Toasted soda crackers with butter, tapioca pudding.

3rd Day

Breakfast

Scrambled eggs (1 or 2), shredded wheat biscuit with canned peach, fresh strawberries and cream, cocoa.

Lunch

Chicken broth with saltines.

Dinner

1 broiled lamb chop, mealy baked potato, French bread and butter, weak coffee, fruit jelly.

Supper

Buttered dry toast, baked apple and cream.

4th Day

Breakfast

Hominy, rice or farina and cream. Very small piece of bacon, creamed potato, cocoa.

Lunch

Baked or boiled custard, hot or cold, with sweet wafers.

Dinner

Rice soup, reinforced with somatose powder or other proprietary protein if desired, small piece of tender beef steak, potato puff, chocolate pudding, small orange.

Supper

Milk toast, wine jelly.

5th Day

Breakfast

Some other kind of cereal with cream, broiled lamb chop, dry toast (vary the bread from time to time), weak coffee, banana with pine apple juice.

Lunch

Junket and wafers.

Dinner

Chicken soup with new kind of crackers, creamed sweetbreads, macaroni, cocoa, jelly or canned peaches and cream.

Supper

Buttered dry toast, orange jelly, sponge cake.

6th Day

Breakfast

Broiled fish, toasted boiled potato, stewed prunes with cream, rejecting skin.

Lunch

Beef broth with croutons, crackers.

Dinner

Escalloped oysters, ice cream, wafers or macaroons.

Supper

Lamb chop, Duchess potatoes, fresh fruit (rejecting skin, core, and seeds), cocoa, vegetable oysters.

In cases that have been upon an exclusive milk diet, the addition of solid food may be scheduled as follows: (Adapted from W. G. Thompson. It is not intended that such a schedule should be slavishly followed.)

1st Day

Chicken broth thickened with rice, for one feeding. 2d day: Milk or cream toast, one or two feedings; or broth as before for one feeding, milk or cream toast for another. 3d day: Scraped beef sandwich about noon; soft egg or baked custard early in evening. (The beef should be broiled on a hot plate.) 4th day: Soft parts of three or four oysters, meat broth thickened with beaten egg, cream toast, rice pudding without raisins. 5th day: Scraped beef sandwich, tender sweetbread, bread and milk. 6th day: Farina and milk, rice pudding or blanc mange with whipped cream, soft boiled egg and dry toast. 7th day: Omelet, Bavarian cream, toast or crackers. 8th day: Tenderloin steak, boiled rice, wine jelly, sponge cake, add toast or crackers to various meals. 9th day: Tender roast beef, mealy baked potato, orangeade. Add dry bread toast, various kinds of crackers, toasted or not and soft cereals including nearly all breakfast foods except oatmeal and gritty wheat preparations, to this and subsequent rations.

10th day Lamb chop, or baked or broiled fish or very small piece of boiled ham, baked, creamed or toasted boiled potato and simple desserts about as on previous days. Substitute chicken breast, squab or tender but unspoiled game or stewed or baked or raw oysters for meat. Aim to secure variety of foods without departing from the general kinds mentioned.