Fruit juices, plums, tomatoes, apples, pears, grapes, figs, fruit-soups, fruit-gruels, raisins, gelatines, corn, oats, spinach, oranges, carrots, parsnips, bran, oil, butter, cream, olives, yolks of eggs, pecans, walnuts, Brazil nuts, cucumbers, onions, greens.
Skim-milk, liquid foods, fine flour bread, potatoes, tapioca, white of eggs, gluten, mush, lean meat and cheese made from skim-milk.
A menu which is one-sided or combined wrongly, that is, one in which either protein, carbohydrates, minerals or fluids are provided in excess, leads to waste of nervous energy as well as to waste of nutritive material. A wrong combination creates an abnormal appetite for too much or too little food.
Each person should learn by experience to select the kinds of food which yield him nourishment and avoid those which disagree.
People who feel the need of laxative foods during the spring season will find here a number of suitable breakfast menus to choose from:
1. Cooked spinach or yellow dock or mustard greens or dandelion leaves with rye or wheat bread and butter. Eggs or bacon, if desired.
2. Finely mashed boiled beets or turnips or potatoes or carrots or parsnips with plenty of parsley and bacon or ham or cornbeef or chipped dried beef.
3. Rhubarb salad and lettuce with French or mayonnaise dressing. Cornmeal cakes or muffins.
4. Mushroom salad with lettuce and French dressing. Bread and butter.
5. Cooked cereal of rice or wheat or rye with hot cream or butter and cucumbers cut in halves.
6. Sliced bananas and grapefruit with nut dressing or with mayonnaise dressing.
7. Cabbage salad with mayonnaise dressing, hard boiled eggs and bread with butter.
8. Strained canned tomato juice and bananas with lettuce.
9. Fish cakes with steamed potatoes, parsley and butter. Black crusts.
10. Baked or plain boiled cauliflower with cold boiled beef or chipped beef.
11. Boiled cauliflower with tomato sauce and stale bread with butter and grated cheese.
12. Tomato puree with fried parsnip balls, black toast with butter.
13. Radishes, green onions, whole wheat bread and butter.
14. Asparagus salad with ham hash, bread and butter.
15. Cream of potato soup with black toast or raw carrots or celery.
16. Salted mackerel with creamed potatoes, a glass of milk, celery.
17. Apple salad with mayonnaise dressing, a slice of stale bread and a glass of milk.
18. Lettuce with syrup dressing and German pancakes with bacon.
19. French rolls with butter and boiled ham, black malt coffee.
20. Warm apple pie with lettuce and cheese, black malt coffee.
21. Apple salad, corn bread, creamed chipped beef.
22. Shredded wheat with strawberries and milk or cream.
23. Lettuce, baked potatoes, fish salad with mayonnaise dressing.
24. Warmed-over macaroni with tomato puree and cold grated cheese.
25. Macaroni with cream sauce and frankfurter.
26. Codfish cakes with cream rice or apple rice or apple salad.
27. Omelet with lettuce and stewed prunes or syrup dressing.
28. Apple rice with bacon or eggs or fish croquettes, celery.
29. Boiled onions with black bread and butter and bologna or frankfurter.
30. Bread fritters with apple sauce or with lettuce and syrup dressing.
31. Bacon with string beans, bread and butter, stewed prunes.
32. Lettuce with mayonnaise dressing and baked potatoes with creamed beef.
33. Celery with French dressing and fried sweet potatoes with cranberry sauce.
34. Corned beef hash with eggs and triscuits with butter.
35. Lettuce with syrup dressing and buckwheat cakes.
36. Grated carrots with lettuce and unfired bread with butter or nut-cream.
37. Turnip salad with lettuce and unfired bread with butter or nut-cream.
38. Lettuce with French dressing and cornmeal patties with cranberry sauce.
39. Lettuce with French dressing and mashed potatoes with buttermilk and bacon.
40. Apple salad with lettuce and black bread with cheese.
41. Pear salad with cranberries and celery. Unfired bread with butter or nut-cream.
42. Lettuce with French dressing and baked potatoes and eggs.
This question is often asked. It depends entirely on the quality and combination of food which is eaten.
A diet consisting of a variety of solids and vegetables with excessive fluids gives the stomach nothing to do; the contents pass at once into the intestines. Such mixtures are ingested instead of being digested; they cannot be fully utilized because the stimuli upon the drainage of the body is lacking.
If dry foods are eaten, such as sandwiches, rice, macaroni, potatoes or dry cereals, without the addition of fruits, vegetables or soups, a small amount of liquid should be taken. Such simple foods do not form a perfect meal, therefore milk or broths are preferable to water. Water is best taken from five to fifteen minutes before the meal or from one to two hours after meals. Black malt coffee is sometimes beneficial if one-half cupful is taken after or with meals. It acts like a tonic, especially if the liver is sluggish.