Encyclopedia of Diet: A Treatise on the Food Question, Vol. 4Christian, Eugene
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Encyclopedia of Diet: A Treatise on the Food Question, Vol. 4
Christian, Eugene
Diet; Diet in disease; Food
Boiled wheat
Three or four eggs, prepared as for breakfast
Ice-cream, plain
Wheat bran
SUMMER MENU
_ATHLETIC DIET_ (_CHIEFLY UNCOOKED_)
BREAKFAST
Melon or peaches
A pint of junket or clabbered milk
Two eggs, whipped
Two red bananas, with cream and nuts
LUNCHEON
Two or three ears of tender corn, boiled
One fresh vegetable--peas, beans, or carrots
DINNER
A green salad, with oil and nuts
A baked potato
Corn, peas, or beans
Fish or eggs
A banana, with dates
Melon or peaches
FALL MENU
_ATHLETIC DIET_ (_CHIEFLY UNCOOKED_)
BREAKFAST
Exceedingly ripe bananas, eaten with nut
butter, dates, and cream
Two or three eggs, whipped. Add to each egg a
rounded teaspoonful of sugar, and a scant spoonful
of lemon juice. Whip thoroughly, and add a
glass of milk to each egg
LUNCHEON
Two or three eggs, whipped, into which whip a
teaspoonful each of honey and lemon juice; add
a glass of milk to each egg
One or two exceedingly ripe bananas, eaten with
nut butter and raisins
DINNER
A green salad or celery
A fresh vegetable, cooked--squash, carrots,
parsnips, or onions
Baked beans and a baked potato
Sufficient water should be drunk at each of these meals to bring the
moisture up to 66 per cent of the whole.
Tender carrots or cabbage, uncooked, may be eaten, with nuts and salt,
at both luncheon and dinner.
WINTER MENU
_ATHLETIC DIET (CHIEFLY UNCOOKED)_
BREAKFAST
An orange or an apple, with olive-oil
Oatmeal or boiled wheat
Three eggs, whipped--sugar to taste; fruit
flavor
Cream and nuts, with raisins
LUNCHEON
Corn bread--buttermilk
A banana, with either seedless raisins or currants;
cream, and either nuts or nut butter
Milk or chocolate
DINNER
Celery
Baked beans or lentils
Eggs or fish
A potato
Nuts, raisins, and either cream or ice-cream
SPRING MENU
_FOR INVALID CHILD--MAKING MUSCULAR TISSUE--REGULATING BOWELS_
On awaking, have the child take a glass of water and the strained juice
of an orange, or a few cherries or berries; deep breathing in the open
air, and such exercises as it is able to endure.
BREAKFAST
(Late)
Cherries or berries--very few
Half a cup of hot water
A heaping tablespoonful of boiled wheat, oatmeal,
or rice
A whipped egg, sweetened and flavored to taste
Half a glass of milk
LUNCHEON
Two glasses of fresh milk, taken slowly--half
a glass every ten or fifteen minutes
A heaping tablespoonful of wheat bran, cooked,
served with cream
DINNER
Vegetable soup
A cup of water
Green peas
New potatoes
Eggs whipped, same as for breakfast--all the
child will take; milk, if preferred (If milk is
chosen, a tablespoonful of wheat bran should be
taken to prevent constipation)
SUMMER MENU
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