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 one on the most important tasks for a 1950s housewife. Here’s your mid-century menus for the end of winter.
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Mid-Century Meal Plan for the Week of President’s Day 2022
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Monday’s Meal Plan (President’s Day)
Breakfast
- Orange juice
- Rolled oats with top milk
- Bacon curls
- Toast with butter
- Jam or marmalade
- Coffee for adults, milk for children
Lunch
- Corned beef hash
- Buttered kale
- Banana pudding
- Oatmeal cookies
- Coffee for adults, milk for children
Dinner
- Celery stuffed with grated beet
- Roast pork loin
- Baked sweet potatoes
- Corn-on-the-cob
- Bread and butter
- Radish, cucumber, and cheese salad
- Cherry tart a la mode
- Coffee for adults, milk for children
Tuesday’s Meal Plan
Breakfast
- Tomato juice
- Sliced bananas on wheat cereal with top milk
- Scrambled eggs
- Toast with butter
- Jam or marmalade
- Coffee for adults, milk for children
Lunch
- Clam chowder
- Lettuce sandwiches
- Cherry gelatin
- Coffee for adults, milk for children
Dinner
- Chicken pot pie with vegetables
- Bread and butter
- Cabbage salad
- Chocolate marshmallow pudding
- Coffee for adults, milk for children
Wednesday’s Meal Plan
Breakfast
- Grapefruit juice
- Rolled oats with top milk
- Soft-cooked eggs
- Toast with butter
- Jam or marmalade
- Coffee for adults, milk for children
Lunch
- Toasted tuna sandwiches
- Carrot-raisin slaw
- Applesauce
- Ginger cookies
Dinner
- Braised beef heart
- Mashed potatoes Buttered beets
- Whole-wheat bread and butter
- Pineapple date salad
- Blackberry pudding
- Coffee Milk
Thursday’s Meal Plan
Breakfast
- Tomato juice
- Sliced bananas on wheat cereal with top milk
- Bacon curls
- Cinnamon toast
- Coffee for adults, milk for children
Lunch
- Chicken-noodle soup
- Liverwurst sandwiches
- Green salad
- Peach gelatin
- Coffee for adults, milk for children
Dinner
- Meatloaf
- Mashed potatoes
- Roasted carrots (parboil for 10 minutes, then cook in the pan with the meatloaf drippings)
- Bread and butter
- Pear salad
- Bavarian cream
- Coffee for adults, milk for children
Friday’s Meal Plan
Breakfast
- Orange juice
- Rolled oats with top milk
- Scrambled eggs
- Toast with butter
- Jam or marmalade
- Coffee for adults, milk for children
Lunch
- Fish cakes and spaghetti
- Raw vegetable sticks
- Tapioca pudding
- Coffee for adults, milk for children
Dinner
- Pan-fried fish
- Parsley potatoes
- Creamed peas
- Whole-wheat bread and butter
- Lettuce wedges with Russian dressing
- Apple crumble
- Coffee for adults, milk for children
Saturday’s Meal Plan
Breakfast
- Freshly sliced oranges
- Dates in wheat cereal with top milk
- Poached eggs on toast
- Cinnamon toast
- Coffee for adults, milk for children
Lunch
On Saturdays, the children do their chores and then play outside all day. (Yes, I do insist on old-fashioned Saturdays, so we don’t homeschool on Saturdays, and they are each responsible for their own rooms, which they clean thoroughly every Saturday.) So, on Saturdays, we do a “diner lunch” or a picnic lunch, something fun. In winter, it is almost always a diner lunch.
- Hamburgers
- Potato chips
- Milk shakes
Dinner
Since Saturday is an outdoorsy day, we usually have an “after-skiing”-type menu for dinner. The teenagers get a movie night with vintage teenage snacks after the little ones go to bed.
- Olives
- Italian spaghetti with meat sauce
- Hot rolls with butter
- Caesar salad
- Red Devil’s Food cake with buttercream frosting
- Cocoa for all
Sunday’s Meal Plan
Breakfast
- Grapefruit halves
- Dates in wheat cereal with top milk
- Sausage gravy and biscuits
- Coffee for adults, milk for children
Old-Fashioned Sunday Dinner
- Tomato bouillon
- Braised chicken and gravy
- Mashed potatoes
- Harvard green beans
- Hot rolls with butter
- Head lettuce with 1000 island dressing
- Snow cake with custard filling and 7-minute frosting
- Coffee for adults, milk for children
Sunday Supper
- Sardine sandwiches
- Candlelight salad
- Lemon sugar cookies
- Milk for all
If you would like, you can check out the rest of my mid-century dinner menus. And if you make the menus, share a pic on Instagram and tag me! (Are you following me on Instagram? I share a lot of vintage homemaking quick wins over here!)
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