The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1920-09-24
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TO SCHOOL LUNCH
Children Need Appetizing
School Lunches


How much time and thought do
you put on your children's lunch
basket?
Children have such appetites
that they will eat anything" Is
remark often heard. They may !.
have goud appetites now. but IT
school children are allowed to eat
the wrong things, the time may
come when they can't eat the right
things.
Growing children have certain
special needs ip the way of foods. 4
Like grown people, they must be
supplied with that which is neces-
sary tor health and strength, but,
unlike them, they should be given
also that which is necessary for
development.
Even one not dish obtainable at
school at noon makes the lunch
more appetizing, and many schools
are now providing it. When
child must carry lunch and can not
obtain at school hot dish. the task
of filing the box or basket demands
\ great care to make sure that it is
appetizing. nourlshing and sustain
/ ing.
One of the best investments to
make for a child who carries his
lunch to school that does not serve
a hot lunch. is a bottle which will
keep liquids hot or cold for some
time. Cocoa or soup piping hot on
cold day will make feast out Of
an otherwise undressing lunch.
In general, the school lunch. like
. the chlld's diet as whole. should
contain representative of the hye
food groups. In it should be found
, foods rich In protein, such as milk.
: cheese, meats. fish, dried beans,
!. peas, peanuts and other nuts; cereal
t or starchy foods, such as bread.
{ cereal mushes, rice and tapioca;
+ fatty foods, such as butter, cream,
: salad oils and bacon; vegetables and
d fruits, but such as cereals and dried
beans are not put under this classlfi-
cation; simple sweets, including
cakes and cookies that contain little
fat; cane sugar, plain candies
maple sugar, sweet chocolate, jel
= lies. preserved fruits. jams, mar
!, malades. honey. molasses, sirups
, and dried figs, dates. and other
! dried fruits.
IS Here are some recommended com
e binations:
" Sandwiches with sliced, tends
# meat or filling; baked apple, cook
,e les, or a few Jumps of sugar.
# Slices Of meat loaf or bean loar
bread and butter sandwiches; stew
:, ed fruits; small frosted cake.
Crisp rolls, followed out and fill
ed with chopped meat or fish, moist
IN ened and seasoned, or mixed wit
salad dressing; orange. apple,
n mixtureof sliced fruits or berries
ne cake.
Lettuce or celery sandwiches; Gu
nt of custard; jelly sandwiches.
IS. Cottage cheese and chopped greer
pepper sandwiches, or a pot {
= cream cheese with bread-and-butte
sandwiches; peanut sandwiches
'e fruit; cake.
Hard-boiled eggs: crisp. baklns
powder biscuits; celery or radishe
brown-sugar or maple-sugar SANE
wiches.
&C. Bottle of milk; thin corn bres
ge and butter; dates; apple.
IN Ralsin or nut bread with butte
'as cheese; orange; maple sugar.
ice Baked bean and lettuce san
ter witches; apple sauce; sweet choc
'od late.
Nearly everyone knows the pece
sity cf dainty wrapping and pac
lay ing in an appetizing lunch is to
a the result. A container that can
mo s:alded, plenty of paraffin paper,
rth jelly cup with cover and bottl
me with screw tups all assist in t
op- making of a dainty lunch.
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of
Mr.. Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Hook of Coe
r.. "A, Aiono Snont SATURDAY. and Sund