Don’t Eat Breakfast On The Run
By CECILY BROWNSTONE
Associated Press Food Editor
If mom and pap go without good
breakfasts, this sin of omission may
be visited upon their offspring.
Do you gulp orange juice and
coffee in the morning, and then
complain that your children “just
won’t eat a decent breakfast?” If
so, child-guidance people would
cuggest gently that you try to
change your habit.
Example is the best stimulant
and persuasion a youngster can
have. Boys and girls who admire
their parents are inclined to imi
tate them. If a morning drdnk-and
n?bble is good enough for Mother
and Father, youngsters reason, why
isn’t it good enough for us?
Of course parents can preach to
children: Boys and girls need good
breakfasts in order to build strong
healthy bones and tissues and at
tractive appearance. But how much
effect will this have? Intelligent
children often shrug off facts when
they feel only lip service is being
done a creed.
Dr. Frederick J. Stare, eminent
scientist of Harvard’s School of
Public Health, has stated many
times that the breakfast recom
mended by nutritionists should
supply one-fourth to one-third of
the day’s nutrients—foods rich in
protein, vitamins, and minerals.
A balanced breakfast consists of
fruit (high in vitamin C), cereal or
toast (or both), egg (with or with
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out meat or fish,) and milk. Mid
morning coffee breaks with their
popular sweet-roll accompaniment
cannot compensate for this basic
pattern for the first meal of the
day. If you expect coffee breaks
to do so, don’t blame Junior when
he runs out of the house without
breakfast to catch the school bus,
then snacks later on a candy bar or
soft drink.
If breakfasts aren't nutritious
enough at your house, give your
self this quiz:
1. Is hurry-hurry our home’s
usual morning atmosphere? If so,
your routines need changing. Do
the members of your family go to
bed in time for adequate sleep and
early enough rising? Do you super
vise, discipline, or scheme so that
your children get their homework
done the night before? Do your
youngsters get their clothing,
lunchboxes or other school take
alongs ready in time so there’s no
hectic last -minute scrambling?
2. Do sit-down or cafeteria-style
breakfasts best suit our family’s
needs? It doesn’t matter which
style you choose so long as the
meal is organized enough to make
it pleasant and efficient. If break
fast is an everybody-around-the
table affair, preparation has to be
done the night before or by an
early riser. Children of all ages
benefit from being given respon
sibilities; let them help here.
If cafeteria style is most suitable,
food and equipment have to be in
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assembly-line readiness. For ex
ample, are bowls and boxes of
cereal near a pitcher of milk?
Butter on hand and bread near the
toaster, eggs beside the electric
skillet? Seating—whether it in
volves stools, benches or chairs—
has to be adequate and comforta
ble. First eaters should be expected
to remove their trays so that the
table or counter is left attractive
and uncluttered for the next con
tingent. i
3. Are our breakfast menus mon
otonous? Variety is still the spice
of life—at breakfast as well as at
other meals. Families welcome an
occasional surprise. With all the
muffin and pancake mixes, the
frozen products, and the many
packaged and refrigerated breads
on the market, cooks should be
able to break any monotony.
4. Do we enjoy weekend break
fasts? You don’t have to be a slave
to morning meals; but do give your
family a chance to learn how good
they can taste and what a pleasant
get-to-gether time they can be.
Weekend breakfast time is a great
time for young cooks to try their
skill. Do they want to learn how to
make waffles? The following rule
for cornmeal waffles is the best of
its kind we’ve ever tried. You mignt
like to know that we’ve made a
batch of these, stored them in our
freezer, and reheated them most
successfully in the toaster.
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BRIGHTER BREAKFAST features pecan waffles, to be smothered with maple syrup and butter.
Milk for the youngsters, a big pot of coffee for Mother and Dad, and a luscious help-yourself platter of
fresh fruit get the day off to a good start.
lVi cups sifted flour
%-cup enriched yellow corn meal
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
% teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar
1% cups buttermilk
3 eggs (slightly beaten)
%-cup butter or margarine
(melted)
Vi-cup coarsely chopped pecans
Sift together into a mixing bowl
the flour, corn meal, baking pow
der, baking soda, salt and sugar.
Add buttermilk and eggs. Beat with
rotary beater until smooth. Stir in
melted butter and pecans. Bake in
hot waffle iron until steaming
stops. Serve hot with butter and
maple syrup. Makes 6 servings.
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Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gottschalk
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returning here in the spring.
There are 857,353 elementary
school teachers, comprising 125,
477 men and 731,876 women; and
551,609 secondary-school teachers,
comprising 285,632 men and 265,
979 women. Men are 29 per cent of
the total.
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Her charges are needy children
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total population. In 1950, one per
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