TO THREE YEARS OLD

_Breakfast_, 7-8 A. M.: Fruit; cooked or toasted cereal served with
thin cream; a soft boiled or coddled egg; bread (two or more days old)
and butter; plenty of milk.

_Dinner_, 12-1: Soups; creamed vegetables--tomato, corn, peas, and
celery; any two of potatoes--creamed, mashed, or baked--carrots,
beets, spinach, peas, cornlet, squash, cauliflower, asparagus tips,
string beans; protein dish--the puree of dried beans, peas, or
lentils; macaroni or carefully selected meats; dessert--apples, baked
or sauce--or other fruits, junket, custard, milk.

_Supper_, 5-6 P. M.: Fruit, bread (bran bread if constipated); milk;
porridge, with rich milk or milk toast; sweetened graham crackers.

FOODS ALLOWED CHILDREN OF FOUR YEARS AND OLDER

_Protein Dishes_: Purees of dried peas; lentils; beans; macaroni;
eggs--soft boiled, poached, scrambled, or omelette; meats--steak,
chops, chicken, turkey, broiled fish.

_Cereals_: All the toasted-flake foods; toasted and not too fresh
bread, including both graham and bran; hominy; corn meal; oatmeal;
farina; rice; barley; tapioca; sago, etc.

_Soups_: Creamed vegetable soups of all kinds and broths.

_Vegetables_: Potatoes; all the small green vegetables; lettuce;
stewed celery; beets; squash; cauliflower, etc.

_Fruits_: All, if stewed or baked. Raw fruits--pears, peaches, ripe
apples, berries, oranges, persimmons, grape-pulp without seeds, etc.

_Desserts_: Custard; jellos; junkets; home-made ice cream; sponge
cake; baked fruits with whipped cream, etc.

FOODS TO BE AVOIDED BY YOUNG CHILDREN

1. _Doughy breads_, griddle cakes, insides of muffins, hot biscuits,
etc.

2. _Fried meats_, such as sausage, oysters, pork, ham, veal, salt
fish, corned beef, dried beef, etc.

3. _Foods that are hot when they are cold_--such as catsup, horse
radish, mustard, highly spiced pickles, sauces, etc.

4. _Rich pastries_, puddings, unripe fruit, salted peanuts, and highly
concocted dishes.

5. _Certain salads_, containing coarse but easily swallowed foods,
with highly seasoned sauces.

6. _Tea, coffee, and all alcoholic beverages._

7. _Soft candies_, chocolate creams, bon-bons, patties, etc.

Average normal children crave sweets, and since their normal food is
about seven per cent sugar it is not to be wondered at. There are many
forms of pure, hard candies which may be taken by the three-year-old
child. They are stick candy, fruit tablets, sunshine candies, and