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Show FARManaHOME&i ITT AH STATE EXTENSION SERVICE AGRICULTl'KB - UOMK BCONOM.CH By Mary Lois Reichert Home Demonstration Agent Do you serve your family a five-star breakfast every morning, morn-ing, A fivestar breakfast starts with fruit. Fruit first for breakfast break-fast is a good appetizer. You may want to get your fruit into your small child as soon as he is out of bed in the morning. Many mothers report less trouble trou-ble getting all the other foods inside their children when they give them the fruit half an hour before 4he rest of the breakfast. Star two is the breakfast cereal, cer-eal, preferably home cooked on cold school morning. It "sticks to your ribs" longer. Cooked cereal can really be attractive if you cook it and serve it ap-petizingly. ap-petizingly. Star three is toast. Crisp toast with the cereal makes sure that you will chew both the toast and the cereal so you will get a good mixing of saliva with the starch in the cereal and the bread before you swallow them. This is good for digestion. Star four is the egg, cheese, ham or other high quality protein pro-tein food of animal source. A breakfast with a good serving of high quality protein will prevent pre-vent that mid-morning slump so many people have about 10:30, after they have eaten a skimpy breakfast. Star five in this five-star breakfast is for the milk. Hot milk, either plain or with a little postum or cocoa added gives a good start for a good day on these chilly mornings. We find through the nation that only one per cent of Amer-' ica's homemakers put any thought into planning breakfasts. break-fasts. A good breakfast needs the same careful advance planning plan-ning as do the other meals of the' day. Plan your breakfast the night before and perhaps start the preparation. Collect all equipment and put it where you will need it. Measure out the cereal and other supplies that do not need refrigeration. Many homemakers set the table the night before. Then they cover the set table with a plastic table cover so the dust from the night won't collect col-lect on the dishes and silver. Plan your breakfasts so you will really give your family a good, start for a really good day |
