Inasmuch as all people cannot change their meal hours in accordance with those we have suggested, we give these menus upon the basis of three meals a day, with the various food elements properly balanced. We have also included simple desserts, for the benefit of those who do not care to dispense with this feature. The menus in our own home are similar to these, with the exclusion of the breakfasts and the dessert.[1]
[1] Very good vegetarian cook books are those entitled “Science in the Kitchen,” and “Healthful Cookery,” both of them by Mrs. E. E. Kellogg, the wife of the superintendent of the Battle Creek Sanitarium. Some of the books which are listed in another place as being those which a student of the new art of health may read will also furnish many good recipes. The “Art of Living in Good Health,” by Dr. Daniel S. Sager, will be found especially helpful in this regard. We give in the Appendix three simple menus of the Battle Creek Sanitarium. These menus have the food values indicated, and will be found very useful in giving a rough idea of the number of calories contained in ordinary foods.
Monday
Breakfast
- Oranges
- Poached eggs
- Graham gems
Dinner
- Lima beans, dried or fresh
- Baked potatoes
- Mixed nuts
- Whole wheat bread
- Lettuce salad
- Tapioca pudding
Supper
- Oven toast brown bread
- Cottage cheese
- Apple sauce
- Almond cream
- Figs
- Bananas
Tuesday
Breakfast
- Grape fruit
- Corn meal mush with cream
- Buttered toast