Light Diet
Light diet consists of everything included in liquid diet, and in addition fruits, such as grapes and oranges; porridge of granum or farina; soft-cooked or poached eggs; dry, water, milk, and cream toast; the maigre soups, such as celery and mock-bisque, and chicken; delicate puddings, coffee and velvet cream, and baked custards, with perhaps for dinner a meat ball, a small bit of beefsteak or roast beef, and a baked potato.
Jellies made with gelatine, especially when flavored with wine, are a very valuable form of food with which to make the transition from liquid to light diet. They are palatable, nutritious, and, being in solid form, are satisfying to the minds of those who think they are not getting much to eat when fed on liquids alone.
The change from liquid to light diet should be made gradually, adding one kind of solid food at a time. Perhaps after the jellies a bit of water or milk toast, then an egg, then a little soup or pudding, until, as strength is gained, the person is able to take anything in the list, and finally is able to eat almost any kind of nutritious and well-prepared food.
First Day.
Breakfast.
Poached Egg on Toast. Cocoa.
Lunch.
Milk-punch.
Dinner.
Raw Oysters. Cream-crackers. Port Wine.
Lunch.
1 Cup of Hot Beef Broth.
Supper.
Milk Toast. Wine Jelly. Tea.
Second Day.
Breakfast.
Soft-cooked Egg. Milk Toast.
Coffee with Sugar and Cream.
Lunch.
1 Cup of Soft Custard.
Dinner.
Cream-of-celery Soup. Sippets.
A little Barley Pudding, with Cream. Sherry Wine.
Lunch.
Milk-punch.
Supper.
Water Toast, Buttered. Wine Jelly. Tea.
Third Day.
Breakfast.
Scrambled Egg. Cream Toast. Cocoa.
Lunch.
1 Cup of Hot Chicken Broth.
Dinner.
Chicken Panada. Bread. Port Wine.
A little Tapioca Cream.
Lunch.
An Egg-nog.
Supper.
Buttered Dry Toast. Baked Sweet Apples and Cream.
Tea.
Fourth Day.
Breakfast.
An Orange.
Farina Mush, with Cream and Sugar.
Poached Egg on Toast. Baked Potato. Cocoa.
Lunch.
1 Cup of Hot Soft Custard.
Dinner.
Potato Soup. Croutons.
A small Piece of Beefsteak. Creamed Potatoes.
Baked Custard. Coffee.
Lunch.
1 Cup of Chicken Broth, with Rice.
Supper.
Raw Oysters. Banquet Crackers.
Graham Bread, Toasted. Wine Jelly. Tea.
Fifth Day.
Breakfast.
An Orange.
Coffee. Mush of Wheat Germ, with Cream and Sugar.
Broiled Mutton Chop. Toast.
Lunch.
1 Cup of Mulled Wine.
Dinner.
Chicken Soup. Bread.
Creamed Sweetbreads. Duchess Potato.
Snow Pudding. Cocoa.
Lunch.
Siphon Soda, with Coffee Syrup and Cream.
Supper.
Buttered Dry Toast. Orange Jelly.
Sponge Cake and Cream. Tea.