FOOD SERVICE IN RURAL SCHOOLS 



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Principal Itents in 1,5€0 Box Lunches 



Milk 



Cocoa or soup 



No milk, cocoa 

 or soup 



No hot food 



Sandwiclhes only 



Sandwiches plus cake 

 and (or) pie only 



Bread and butter 



Cheese sandwiches 



Egg sandwiches 



Jelly sandwiches 



Meat sandwiches 



Peanut butter 

 sandwiches 



Raw fruit 



Cake or pie or both 



Two sweets 



Three sweets 



Candy 



Per cent 



T5 



Samples of the menus of the lunch boxes, selected at random, are given be- 

 low. Quite aside from aU questions of nutrition, there was much of interest 

 in the 1,560 lunches as they were recorded by the children. They produced 

 an even one hundred different varieties of spelling the word "sandwich", and 

 several other words had approximately as many variations. 



Age of Child Menu 



Nine Three white bread and jam 



sandwiches 

 Cake 

 Eleven White bread and jelly 



sandwich 

 Soda crackers 

 Cake 

 Cocoa 



Twelve Four egg salad sandwiches 



Apple 



Age of Child Menu 



Thirteen Two jelly buns 



(nothing else) 

 Thirteen Five ham sandwiches 



Blackberry pie 



Cake 



Apple 



Orange 



Thirteen Two ham sandwiches 

 Jelly doughnut 

 Cake 

 Pickle 

 Maple sugar 



