Welcome to the Mid-Century Menu Monday Archive! Here you can find my mid-century menus: dinners from the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.
I just love cooking from vintage recipes. My collection includes cookbooks, magazines, and advertising pamphlets from as early as the 1900s, all the way up to the 1960s. Most of my favorite menus, though, are mid-century menus from 1945-1959, when food was plentiful, and the shift to convenience foods and housewives working outside the home was just beginning. (But I have been known to take on WWII rationed meals, and even Great Depression meals on occasion!)
So, this year March apparently decided to come in like a lion — and it feels like winter this week. I mean, we are still having single-digit (Fahrenheit) temps at night (that’s negatives for all the Celsius housewives.) So for this week, I included a lot of warming, wintery-sort-of-meals. Nothing like a dinner hot from …
Spring is here! I still included a lot of comfort food in this week though. A land war in Eurasia makes me feel the need for comfort food! Also, it still feels like winter. Boo. Nonetheless, here’s the first week of delicious vintage home-cooking menus for March! Mid-Century Meal Plan for the First Week of …
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Lots of comfort food, and 3 stick-to-your-ribs, home-cooked square meals a day. Honestly, one of my favorite things about winter in a cold climate is the food! Vintage menus, cozy vintage tablescapes, and making sure that the whole family is comfortable and fed — no wonder serving your family 3 square meals a day is …
Before I had kids, I skipped a lot of meals. Yeah, I know that ALL THE EXPERTS talk about how bad that kind of thing is, but I just didn’t feel like eating breakfast and lunch. But then I had kids. And you know what? APPARENTLY, KIDS NEED TO EAT LUNCH EVERY DAY. And the …
September killed my meal planning y’all. I mean it happens every year, so you’d think I’d get used to it, but I never do. Every back-to-school, my Betty Crocker Good and Easy Cookbook gets way more use than it should in a month. Anyway, in an effort to get back on track, I am making …
This is the last week before we start school. School for us always starts of the 1st of September and ends on the last day of May. And excitingly, here is the meal plan for Mid-Century Menu Monday for August 24th to 30th. Mid-Century Menu Monday for August 24th to 30th Monday’s Meal Plan Breakfast …
Another planning-and-preparation week. I’ve almost got my homeschool lesson plans for the year locked down! Here is the meal plan for your Mid-Century Menu Monday for August 17th to 23rd. Mid-Century Menu Monday for August 17th to 23rd Monday’s Meal Plan Breakfast Sliced peaches Prepared cereal with top milk Toast with butter Broiled bacon Coffee …
August is here! This is my back-to-school month. Even though we homeschool, I take summers off (I’m old-fashioned if you hadn’t noticed!), and we start school at the beginning of September. This is one of my weeks for planning and preparing, so my notes for this week are simple, but here is the meal plan …
It’s the end of July already! I’m actually publishing this menu after the fact because LIFE, so no notes, just a weekly meal plan to keep up with my goal of having an archive with a meal plan for every week. Here is the meal plan for your Mid-Century Menu Monday for July 20th to …
I’m trying something new this week. I am adding notes on exactly how I alter the menus and recipes to suit the ingredients I have on hand, etc. For example, I am replacing at least one vegetable dish a day with zucchini since it is clearly a zucchini year!
