|-------------|--------------|------------
Total per day | 125 | 1.11 | 14,270
|=============|==============|============
Total for one man | 31 | .28 | 3,567
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Menus VI and VII, following, are intended to illustrate how nourishing
food can be procured in sufficient quantities and moderate variety at
a cost of not over 16 cents per day. The cost to the farmer would be
much less, since these menus call for considerable amounts of milk,
which is hardly worth more than one-half or one-third as much on the
farm as it costs in the towns and cities. Coffee has not always been
indicated, but can be introduced for any meal at a cost of from 1/2 to
1-1/2 cents per cup, according to how much coffee is used in making
the infusion, and how much sugar, milk, and cream are added.

It is, of course, not important that each meal, or the total food of
each individual day, should have just the right amount of nutrients,
or that the proportions of protein and fuel ingredients should be
exactly correct so as to make the meal or day's diet well balanced.
The body is continually storing nutritive materials and using them. It
is not dependent any day upon the food eaten that particular day.
Hence an excess one day may be made up by a deficiency the next or
_vice versa_. Healthful nourishment requires simply that the nutrients
as a whole, during longer or shorter periods, should be fitted to the
actual needs of the body for use.

MENU IV.--_For family equivalent to 4 men at moderate muscular work._

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| | | | Fuel
Food materials. | Weight. | Cost. | Protein.| Value.
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| | | |
_Breakfast._ |Lbs. Oz. | Cents. | Pounds. | Calories.
| | | |
Bananas, 4 (or grapes, | | | |
1 pound) | 1 4 | 6-1/2 | .009 | 362
Breakfast cereal | 4 |\ | / .031 | 421
Milk | 6 | > 3 |< .012 |