San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-22
LAbOR|NG MAN
NEEDS HOT
DISHES
inexpensive Foods Are as
Nourishing as Higher
Priced Products.
By WINIFRED GIBBS
Food Specialist

No matter how strongly they may
be entrenched in feminism, most wo-
men find a common interest in talk
ing over the food that their so-called
lords and masters like to eat.
This time We plan to visualize
Dad" as a more active man who
steps about, let us say, in actual mus
cular labor.
Such a man has presumably more
fresh air than his desk-working
brother; he burns more Of his bodily
tissue; and, in short, be needs more
food.
Perhaps such an active man will
like to begin his breakfast with
something hot" rather than the more
delicate fruit juices. His fruit may
be served for dessert at dinner or
tucked into his lunch box perhaps or
he may stop at stand to get his
own apples or pears or grapes for
between meal consumption. So his
cereal is the good old-fashioned por-
ridge. But don't forget that there
are other cereals besides rolled oats
TO back TO your childhood days and
remember the cracked wheat or even
the graham mush made BY stirring
graham flour into the proper pro-
portion of boiling water.
BRAN BREAKFAST
Then there is Pettijohn's breakfast
food containing not only the germ of
the wheat, but bran. Wheatena will
give a very palatable form of the
entire wheat berry; rice cooked in
milk offers a nourishing cereal. and
II Dad has barley one day and rye
another, it does not leave enough
days in the week on which he may
growl about having Oatmeal again :"
Then he must have a main dish or
again something hot. Dreamed Clipped
beef on toast or creamed salt Goldfish,
or kidney stew, or liver and bacon.
and with this he will enjoy some we'll
made bran mullins or old-fashioned
Johnnycakes. His coffee will prob
ably be genuine coffee and with the
normal fresh air which his grateful
lungs receive, he will be amply able
to take care of it.
Now as to approximate servings.
Let there be a good one and one
quarter cups of hot mush; at least
twO-thirds of a cup of the hot main
dish; good slice of Johnnycake or
two good-sized mullins. For cereal
and coffee. there should be scant
cup of milk an dtwo scant table,
spoons OF sugar. Such a breakfast
will yield 1900 calories or measures
OF energy.
BEANS FOR LUNCH.
Next comes lucheon. A steaming
stew Of lentils or beans, a generous
cup and one-half each of these. Next
comes graha, or white, or rye or
whole wheat bread, approximately
four good slices with butter and the
dessert of the aforementioned fruit
such as a banana cut up with lemon
juice and sugar. slice of ginger
bread or a good sized cookie. If there
is a cup of coffee, this calls for Que
more teaspoon Of sugar with little
hot milk.
Dinner is more Of a problem, IL
Dad wishes MS to be careful about
expenditures. but. on the other hand.
There are delicious cuts Of meat that
cost comparatively little.
g., iohS, IOT tAdinpie, DrdlSeu De.I
heart Time was when this could
be bought for 10 cents, but times
have changed. Even so, heart is n
good savOry. inexpensive meat. Tripe
is another. and anyone who will turn
back 10 his Dickens will learn how
to cook it with onions.
Dinner for this man calls for one
large or two small potatoes with but
ter, a good serving Of turnips or
parsnips or other winter vegetables /:
another generous portion Of bread
and butter. three or four slices; and
nourlshing pudding such as a
steamed fruit and probably another
cup OF coffee. A dinner like this will
average 800 calories Of energy and a
net such as We have been discussing
gives Dad almost 1000.