Menu For The School Lunch-Box

(1) Sandwiches: made of stale bread, preferably graham or oatmeal, and filled with: finely chopped boiled eggs, well but mildly seasoned; a nut paste, as peanut butter softened with milk or cream; a dried fruit paste, made of chopped dates or figs; meat, thinly sliced or finely chopped and seasoned; celery, chopped fine and mixed with salad dressing; cream cheese and nuts;

American cheese grated and seasoned with tomato; lettuce with mayonnaise;

(2) Fruit: an orange or apple; also cooked fruit if it can be carried, as apple sauce or baked apple, stewed prunes, raisins, pears, peaches, etc. Tomatoes may take the place of other fruit when liked.

(3) A sweet: as baked custard, plain cookies, sponge cake.

(4) Milk or fruit juice to drink if it can be carried.