Foods and home making

5-6 P.M.: 8 to 12 oz. of milk1 to drink; 3 or 4 pieces of Zwieback, or 5 or 4 tablespoonfuls of well-cooked cereal, tapioca, and 2 or 3 table- spoonfuls of custard pudding, rennet custard, gelatin, stewed fruits, apple sauce, or a baked or ripe banana. 4 TO 6 YEARS Three Meals a Day — 7 : 30 — 12 : 30 — 6 : 30 Milk. — All milk or milk mixtures, except sterilized foods like S. M. A., should be pasteurized or boiled, as it is impossible always to be sure that raw milk is free from bacteria that cause disease. In the home, boiling is to be preferred to pasteurizing. Cereal. — Must be cooked thoroughly. Oatmeal should be given several times a week on account of its action on the bowels. It is a good plan to alternate it with Cream of Wheat or rice. Bread. — Dried or slightly toasted. Whole-wheat, rye, or Graham bread is the best. Zwieback, Graham, or soda crackers may be given. Soups. — Beef broth with vermicelli, beef tea, chicken broth with rice, milk soup, cream soup, vegetable soup (vegetables mashed), macaroni or spaghetti in milk. Meats. — Liver, sweet-breads, brains, kidneys, roast beef (rare), chicken, mutton chops, lamb chops, veal stew, soup meat, crisp bacon, boiled fish, broiled fish. Eggs. — - Eggs, soft-boiled, poached, or scrambled at breakfast or the noonday meal. Vegetables. — Potatoes, carrots, spinach, beets, asparagus tips, cauliflower, peas, string beans, squash, stewed celery, puree of vege- tables, and Bermuda onions stewed soft in milk. All vegetables should be thoroughly cooked and the vegetable water should be used. Desserts. — Apple sauce, baked apple, cup custard, junket, orange juice, baked or ripe raw banana, stewed prunes, rice pudding, tapioca, Jell-o. No food between meals. Boiled water several times a day. Antiscorbutic. — Orange juice and tomato juice, 1 to 2 oz. twice daily, are the best and most dependable. Antirachitic. — Cod-liver oil in doses of 1 teaspoonful once daily before breakfast or S. M. A. in daily amounts of ^ to 1 pint of the con- 1 Lactic-acid milk or S. M. A. may be used instead of plain milk. No cod-liver oil is necessary when S. M. A. is used. If the S. M. A. is given in the concentrated liquid or double strength powder form, it may be used in half the quantity suggested above. 506 Health and Child Care centrated liquid or double strength when made up from S. M. A. in powder form. If only § pint of concentrated liquid S. M. A. is used, then i glass of plain boiled or pasteurized milk should be adaed to the diet. FORBIDDEN FOODS FOR CHILDREN UNDER SIX YEARS OF AGE Meats. — Corned beef, dried beef, duck, game, goose, ham, pork, sausage, salt fish, fried fish, dressings from roasted meats. Vegetables. — Fried, of all varieties; green corn, cucumbers, fried egg plant, fried onions. Bread and cake. — Griddle cakes, hot bread, rolls, sweet cakes ; also bread or cake with dried fruits or sweet frostings. Desserts. — Ice cream, pastry, pie, salad, tarts, nuts, candied fruits, candy — except i to 2 small squares of good nut-free milk chocolate, especially when given as a reward. Drinks. — Coffee, tea, beer, cider, wine, whisky. Cereals. — Do not give any young child the “ dry ” or ready-to-serve cereals.