Sample Menu For Family Of Six | Practical Cooking And Serving

Man at moderate muscular labor, woman, two girls, 12 and 6; two boys, 10 and 8 years of age. This family requires the same number of calories of heat and potential energy as four men at moderate muscular labor - i.e. :

Man + Woman + Girl + Boy + Girl + Boy = 4 Men

1.0 + 0.08 + 0.06 + 0.06 + 0.05 + 0.05 = 4.0

BREAKFAST
		Weight		Protein	Fuel Value
		lbs.	oz.	Pounds	Calories
Oranges		2		.012	300
Oatmeal:
Oatmeal			4	.042	465
Milk			6	.012	120
Sugar			2		235
Boiled eggs (8)		1	0	.131	635
Corn cake (no eggs)		1		.106	1,438
Butter			4		880
Coffee:
...Sugar			2	.001	235
...Milk			6	.012	120
	Total..........			.316	4,428
DINNER
Broiled beefsteak, lean		2		.342	1,570
Mashed Potatoes:
...Potatoes		1	8	.037	660
...Butter			1		225
...Milk			3	.006	60
Spinach		1	4	.027	138
Butter			1		225
Bread			12	.071	910
Butter			4		900
Baked Apple, Tapioca Pudding:
...Apples		1		.004	255
...Tapioca			4	.001	412
...Sugar			4		470
...Cream			4	.006	228
	Total...........			.494	6,053
SUPPER
Creamed Codfish:
...Salt codfish			8	.128	245
...Milk		1		.033	325
...Butter			1		225
...Flour			1	.007	103
...One egg			2	.016	78
Baked Potatoes:		1		.025	440
...Butter			4		900
Biscuit		1		.084	1,430
Tea:
...Milk and sugar				.012	353
	Total..............			.305	4,099
				Protein	Calories
Total for one day				1.055	14,588
Total for one man				.278	3,647
Standard estimate, Atwater				.25	3,400

Both the amount of protein and the number of calories of energy are in excess of the standard. This gives an opportunity to study the menu more critically, though the excess in this menu in connection with other menus day after day would probably be overbalanced before many days. For it is to be considered that, in periods of a week or ten days, the diet is more likely to approach the standard than when a single day is taken into account. By omitting the cream with the pudding at dinner, the total for one man becomes .26 of protein and 3,590 calories. Reduce the number of eggs in the breakfast menu to four and use these with cooked rice in an omelet, and the figures (counting the butter used in cooking and the rice) become .25 of protein and 3,623 calories.

BREAKFAST

DINNER

SUPPER