THE BUSINESS GIRL

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20741, 27 February 1939, Page 4

THE BUSINESS GIRL

IDEAS FOR HEALTH LUNCHES Preparing health lunches for business girls is really quiet easy, and so many appeasing variations can he achieved with little effort. For instance, instead of sandwiches, which after all are a bother to cut and not always attractive to eat, take a small packet of brown bread and butter to the office each day and with it enjoy the following different food groups. If you are fortunate enough to have a locker or drawer keep a small tin of dates and other dried fruits, raisins etc., a small piece of cheese (beware of mice, so in a tin please), and some shelled walnuts; also a fork, knife (stainless), spoon of your own, and a plate. Then, for one day, cut up a large ripe banana on your plate, some chopped dales, and walnuts. Have a glass of milk and pour a little over the banana if you like. Tins with your brown bread and butter is a nourishing and satisfying lurch. You can eat two bananas if you like. Another day take a lettuce to work, washed and wrapped in greaseproof paper; also a tomato and a little home-made dressing (a boiled one keeps for weeks in a screw-top jar). Break up the lettuce on your plate with tomato, some cheese, a date or two and dressing—and your glass of milk and bread and butter. Eat a few raisins also. Then did you ever try two or three sliced ripe uncooked peaches with dates, cheese, and salad dressing? It’s an extra good combination. Peanut butter on brown bread and butter with dates and bananas is excellent, and drink a glass of orange juice diluted instead of tea. An egg, hard boiled at home, makes a good salad with lettuce, tomato, and anything else you like to add to it. Try to get into the way of a salad lunch. It takes no longer than sandwiches and it is no bother to rinse and dry a plate and glass. You'll work far better during the afternoon and feel less sleepy than after a pie—tea—white bread and butter lunch, or a cakes, tea, and sandwich lunch, which is too often the rule. Fruit is cheap now. Eat all you can plus that bit of extra food value in cheese, nuts (proteins), dried fruits (carbohydrates), and real brown bread and butter.