Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-11-30 | Page 6 | Your Baby and Mine

Your Baby and M Mine ne By MY HIIE MEY l Elt gLI HED PLANNING INSURES APPETIZING SCHOOL LUNCHES Preparing the daily lunch box for forthe forthe the he child who cannot return home for fora a hot lunch is alwa always s a problem Because Because Be Be- cause this task t comes in the early arly morning when appetites are at the theowest lowest ebb and the mother is too bus busy with other duties t to give the thc lunch much time or attention the result is usually a scrambled mess of or whatever whatever what what- ever happens to be right at hand and easy to fix Yet at t noon this hurriedly hurriedly hurriedly hur concocted lunch has to satisfy the he hungry child and be appetizing enough to inspire hini him to cat eat all of it PLAN AHEAD The contents of the lunch box should be planned a day ahead At that time one can give the lunch some nought and order a wise selection of or foods The pantry should always alway contain a n package of paper napkins paper cups paper plates and oiled paper With these and the metal lunch lunchbox lunchbox lunchbox box as the foundation necessities l es one may achieve results that would be impossible were one to depe depend d upon makeshifts I The Thc food that makes up the sturdy portion of the lunch will probably be sandwiches Sandwiches with almost almo t tany any kind of of pt filling meet filling meat t chopped Vegetables nuts fruits oi or cheese should cheese should be d dainty and m mOist when rady to cat eat That means means that more of the moistening agent wh whether ther it be salad dressing dressing- catsup chili sauce lemon juice or cream should be mixed in lavishly There Is nothing so discouraging to the appe appetite tile tite as a out dried sandwich TilE THE REST OF THE LU LUNCH With the sandwiches there should be a relish of of some kind usually a 1 pickle an olive a seasoned hard hard- cooked egg or a fruit pickle To finish fin finIsh ish the lunch there should be fruit cookies cake doughnuts or an easily transported dessert in one of the paper pa per cups and arid something to td drink This last should preferably be milk or cocoa which should be put into the thermos bo bottle cold It may be heated at school when the child is ready toI to I drink it Buttermilk makes an appetizing appetizing appe appe- drink for the child who likes it Tomato juice seasoned with saland salt sal and lemon juice is a that suggests suggests sug sug- i itself elf for variety Each food should be wrapped sepa in oiled paper For the small smal child skins should be loosened from oranges or apples cut and quartered and then put pul back together in ina a a whole and wrapped securely These little services lend daintiness to the food and spur the child to eat eal all of it Various kinds of sandwich pastes small cans of fish packages of cheese a handy grinder to reduce nuts or dates or other dried foods roods to a spread- spread able whole will maks the actual work worl of putting the lunch together a matter matte of or moments It is far short of ones one's obligation to a child to give him the scraps craps of meat that happen to be left leftover leftover leftover over packed b tv t unwieldy slices of bread and call it a sandwich One should consider always that a juicy fruit is an appetizing accompaniment to a dry sandwich end and that drier deserts desserts des des- erts may be eaten with more relish when milk or cocoa or tomato juice can b be between bites Desirable combinations are arc suggested suggested sug sug- in my Jeanet School Lunches reader may obtain oh- oh f for r the Child Any may tain thin this leaflet by sending a self ad dressed stamped envelope with her request to me in care of the Your Baby and imd Mine department of this newspaper 5 I