Menus are the arranged meal-distribution of food. They are composed of groups of different foods. Menus should combine food palatably and so distribute it that it can be digested. Menus vary widely in type because adjusted to climate, season, food-supply and economic circumstances. But the general suggestions offered below are basal to all menus scientifically selected to meet food-needs.

Dinner is both the most substantial and elaborate meal. What the dinner is determines what the other meals should be.

Daily Menus

Basic Suggestions

Breakfast (For Adults)

(For School Children)

(For Little Children)

Light - Fruit, buttered toast, coffee

Milk, cereal, eggs, toast, fruit

Cereal porridge; milk (pure), slightly cooked fresh eggs, oven toast or dry bread, fresh or freshly cooked ripe fruit (without skins or seeds)

Moderate - Cereal, coffee, eggs, bread, fruit

[Currently varied in kinds of foods used and methods of their preparation]

Heavy (for hard labor) -Cereal, coffee, meat, vegetable, bread, fruit

Luncheon

Summer - Thin soup, green vegetables, fruit salad, tea, hot bread or plain cake, fresh fruit

No tea, no coffee, little uncooked or acid fruit, no highly seasoned food, no rich desserts

No tea, no coffee, no fish, no pastry, no canned food, no extractive soups, no hot breads

Winter - Thick soup, starchy vegetables, egg-foods or sea- foods

(Outdoor life) Cocoa, pancakes or tarts, fruit

Milk soups, cocoa, meat and eggs alternating, oil dressings, vegetables, bread, butter

Baked custard, plain cold cake, jams only homemade. (Otherwise as for older children)

Supper - Modification of luncheon

Supper - Like breakfast above

Dinner - (Manual laborers need dinner at noon and more food at all meals)

Summer

Fresh fruit or thin soup; poultry, roast, or steak; fresh green, and starchy vegetables; light salad or frozen dessert; cream cheese and crackers; coffee. Cold bread with dinner.

Winter

Thick soup; bread; meat; starchy, green vegetables; substantial salad and light dessert or light salad and substantial dessert; coffee.

A DINNER TABLE.

A DINNER-TABLE.

A LUNCHEON TABLE.

A LUNCHEON-TABLE.

A BREAKFAST TABLE.

A BREAKFAST-TABLE.