Cream soup, bean soup, or purée with crackers or dry toast
Bread and butter
Fruit and cake, or rice pudding, or bread, tapioca, cocoanut, or cereal pudding of any kind, or a cup of custard, or a dish of ice cream
Dinner
Meat (preferably red meat)
Potatoes
Vegetables, preferably spinach, or greens of some kind, or beets boiled with the tops
Graham bread
Fruit, graham bread toasted or graham wafers. Cake of some simple variety.
Candy (small quantity)
A growing child is usually hungry when it returns from school, and it is well to give a little easily digested food regularly at this time, but not sufficient to destroy the appetite for the evening meal. Irregular eating between meals, however, should be discouraged. An egg lemonade is easily digested and satisfying. If active and exercising freely, craving for sweets should be gratified to a limited extent.
The growing boy or girl takes from six to eight glasses of water a day.
Overeating, however, should be guarded against for many of the dietary habits of adult life are formed in this period, and the foundation of many dietetic difficulties and disturbances of the system are laid.
If one is not hungry at meal time, the chances are that he is not exercising sufficiently in the fresh air.
Thorough mastication should be insisted on.
One should encourage the habit of eating hard crusts or hard crackers to exercise the teeth and to insure the swallowing of sufficient saliva.
The schoolboy or schoolgirl, anxious to be out at play, is especially liable to bolt the food or to eat an insufficient amount. This should be especially guarded against and parents should insist on the proper time being spent at meals.