Summertime, summertime, sum-sum-summertime! Time for cute summer dresses, iced tea, and watermelon! Here’s your vintage weekly meal plan, Mid-Century Menu Monday for July 6th to 12th.
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Mid-Century Menu Monday For July 6-12
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Monday, July 6th
You’re supposed to save half of the cookies for Wednesday. Good luck!
Breakfast
- Berries and cream
- Soft-cooked eggs
- Whole-wheat toast with butter
Lunch
- Stuffed tomato salad
- Toast and butter
- Fresh plums
- Coconut ice box cookies
- Cocoa for all
Dinner
- Braised beef brisket with sweet and sour gravy
- Parsley buttered potatoes
- Buttered new cabbage
- Cucumber and radish salad
- Bread and butter
- Cantaloupe wedges
- Coffee, iced or hot, for adults, milk for children
Tuesday
Today’s dessert uses egg whites only; save the egg yolks for Thursday’s dessert.
Breakfast
- Grapefruit
- Prepared cereal with top milk
- Toast with butter, jelly
- Coffee for adults, milk for children
Lunch
- New peas in cheese sauce
- Celery and carrot sticks
- Whole wheat bread with butter
- Blackberries
- Iced tea for adults, milk for children
Dinner
- Spanish pork chops
- Buttered beets
- Lettuce wedges with Russian dressing
- Whole wheat bread with butter
- Cocoa puff
- Coffee for adults, milk for children
Wednesday
Today’s dinner is a weekly helping of organ meat — heart!
Breakfast
- Sugared sliced peaches
- Cornmeal waffles
- Syrup
- Coffee for adults, milk for children
Lunch
- Egg a la goldenrod with bacon
- Toast sticks
- New apple sauce
- Coconut ice box cookies (left over from Monday)
- Tea for adults, milk for children
Dinner
- Stewed heart
- Creamed potatoes
- Tomato and cucumber salad
- Whole-wheat bread and butter
- Lemon milk sherbet
- Coffee for adults, milk for children
Thursday
Remember to use the egg yolks left from Thursday for today’s dessert
Breakfast
- Orange and grapefruit juice
- Scrambled eggs
- Toast with butter
- Coffee for adults, milk for children
Lunch
- Potato salad
- Whole-wheat bread and butter
- Red raspberries and top milk
- Milk for all
Dinner
- Braised lamb chops
- Boiled rice
- Buttered new peas
- Lettuce with 1000-Island dressing
- Caramel mousse
- Coffee for adults, milk for children
Friday
Just remember — it isn’t jellied salmon salad if you don’t make it in a fish-shaped mold and garnish it with olive “eyes.”
Breakfast
- Blackberries
- Prepared cereal with top milk
- Toast with butter
- Coffee for adults, milk for children
Lunch
- Tomato rarebit on toast with bacon
- Pineapple, cabbage, date salad
- Iced tea for adults, milk for children
Dinner
- Jellied salmon salad
- Potato chips
- Sliced cucumber salad
- Gooseberry tarts
- Coffee for adults, milk for children
Saturday
Breakfast
- Melon
- Prepared cereal with top milk
- Whole-wheat toast with butter
- Jam
- Coffee for adults, milk for children
Lunch
- Summer squash medley
- Sliced tomatoes and cucumbers
- Whole-wheat bread with butter
- Chocolate blanc mange
- Iced tea for adult, milk for children
Dinner
- Salisbury steak with milk gravy
- Parsley-buttered potatoes
- Cole slaw
- Bread and butter
- Plum dumplings
- Coffee for adults, milk for children
Sunday
Breakfast
- Blueberries and top milk
- French omelet
- Toast with butter
- Coffee for adults, milk for children
Sunday Dinner
- Beef pot roast
- Mashed potatoes
- Creamed onions
- Raw spinach salad
- Whole-wheat bread and butter
- Watermelon
- Coffee for adults, milk for children
Sunday Supper
- Green beans au gratin
- Jelly sandwiches
- Limeade
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!)
