Evening star., 1932-09-16
order in which foods should

"HE Order IN WHICH IOOOS SiiUulu
be served at meal must be Kept
in mind We should serve first
those foods which stimulate the
digestive juices and create an
appetite. The meal should be started on
with such things as soup, fresh tart
fruits. a bit of cheese, fish or tart
salad, and should end with the sweets:
The former stimulates the appetite and
the latter dulls the appetite.
Adults reaching middle life with good
vigor often eat too much food in the
form of meat, bread, potatoes and sugar.
These and other articles made from
wheat -four, together with peas. beans.
rice and oats, make too large share OF
the total food supply. They are not
usually supplemented with a sufficient
amount of milk, eggs and green leaty
vegetables. Animals confined to such
diets grow old rapidly.
The required amount of vitaminS and
minerals are essential in the diet. Vita
min A, which prevents malnutrition, is
contained in butter, cream, egg yolk,
liver, lettuce. spinach and carrots. Vita
min B, necessary to proper growth and
a good appetite Is found in oranges.
tomatoes. spinach, nuts, egg yolk and
wheat. Vitamin C, necessary for growth
and good health. is found in oranges
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raw cabbage and potatoes that have
been cooked no longer than 80 minutes.
Vitamin D is found in butter fat and
egg yolks. Sources of vitamin F are
milk eggs, roast beef, cuStard pie and
baked cuStardS.
The following minerals are essential
for the building and repairing of teeth
and bones, to regulate the action of the
heart and other muscles and to prevent
anemia:
Calcium or lime-Milk cheese. cab
bage, carrots, turnips, buttermilk
Phosphorus-Eggs, lean beef. milk,
bran, potatoes with skins, oatmeal,
whole wheat.
beans, rolled oats, egg yolks, raisins and
prunes.
For Sedentary Persons
Simple nourishing food should be
chosen by the person of sedentary hab-
its. Digestion is better for having at
least one warm dish. Breakfast may be
light. Fruit. some kind of breadstuff.
such as toast, rolls, bran mullins with
honey, and a beverage, such as coffee,
cocoa or milk. Egg may be added if
the noon meal is light l
A luncheon suited to a sedentary
hot dish. such as choWder Or creamed
dish. with bread and butter and a SIM
pie dessert. which may be baked apple
with cream, eating the skin. A salad
instead of hot dish may be preferred
at times. A light lunch might consist
OF a sandwich and cocoa or milk
For dinner. two hot dishes. such as
meat and vegetable bread and butter,
and simple dessert. Another vege-
table, especially salad vegetable, will
make the meal more pleasing and bet
ter balanced.
A good dinner would consist Of vege-
table soup. roast beef large serving of
spinach baked potatoes, the skins to
be eaten: cabbage salad, graham bread
and steamed fig pudding with lemon
sauce.
Anti Constipation Menu.
Breakfasts -Stewed prunes. shredded
wheat with cream, tomato omelet, gra-
ham toast.
Luncheon-Pork and baked beans,
Boston brown. bread, sliced pineapple,
oatmeal macafoons
Dinner-Boiied mutton and caper
sauce. stewed onions, lettuce salad with
French dressing. bran waters, lemon
jelly with whipped cream.
Two glasses of water or glass of
diluted lemon, orange or other fruit
juice should be taken each day on ris-
ing.
Meat Substitutes.
Soups-Cream of tomato, cream Of
spinach, cream of celery. cream Of as
paragus, potato soup, stock soup.
Vegetables-Corn pudding. scalloped
cabbage and cheese, scalloped caull-
flower with cheese friend eggplant,
scalloped eggplant, Brussels sprouts
baked stuffed onions. stuffed tomatoes.
scalloped cabbage and celery, beet
greens with bacon.
-Scalloped, potatoes on half