Let’s face it, even with ALL the recipes, planning meals can still be a daunting task. That’s why I’ve curated a 7-day vintage meal plan that takes the guesswork out of your weekly menu. This meal plan is taken directly from my 1950s menus for breakfasts, lunches, and dinners. So try them and rediscover the joy of cooking from scratch.
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Vintage Menus For the End of Winter
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These are meals that I make for my own family.
At the end of February, it’s always Lent, and as a Catholic, I fast during Lent. But I have a lot of children who aren’t of age for fasting, you’ll see milk at every meal still, and eggs at breakfast (for the little ones). To accommodate strict fasting, I eat less (a piece of toast with my morning coffee, a piece of toast at lunch), but I eat the main meal with the rest of my family to avoid disrupting the routine. With these menus, it is easy to accommodate everyone’s different fasting for Lent.
Although I love to cook 1950s menus, I usually use 1940s and 1930s recipes because they use far fewer prepared foods and are mostly made from scratch.
Monday Menu
Breakfast
- Pineapple juice
- Oatmeal with top milk
- Scrambled eggs
- Toast with apricot preserves
- Coffee for adults, cocoa for children
Lunch
- Pea soup
- Toasted tomato sandwiches
- Baked apples
- Tea for adults, milk for children
Dinner
- Spiced peach juice
- Chicken a la King served on waffles
- Spiced peaches
- Buttered asparagus
- Grapefruit-orange salad on watercress
- Aforementioned waffles
- Peppermint fluff with chocolate sauce
- Coffee for adults, milk for children
Tuesday Menu
Breakfast
- Grapefruit juice
- Hot wheat cereal with top milk and apricots
- Poached eggs
- Toasted English muffins
- Coffee for adults, cocoa for children
Lunch
- French onion soup
- Bread and butter
- Celery and radishes
- Rice pudding
- Tea for adults, milk for children
Dinner
- Chilled tomato juice
- Meatloaf with tomato ketchup glaze and mustard pickle
- Scalloped potatoes
- Peas with onions
- Hard rolls
- Cole slaw
- Caramel spice cake
- Coffee for adults, milk for children
Wednesday Menu
Breakfast
- Orange juice
- Oatmeal with top milk
- Soft-cooked eggs
- Toast with butter and crab-apple jelly
- Coffee for adults, cocoa for children
Lunch
- Macaroni and cheese
- Sliced tomatoes
- Celery and carrot sticks
- Sugar cookies
- Tea for adults, milk for children
Dinner
- Stuffed celery
- Ham steak with spiced crab apples
- Baked sweet potatoes
- Buttered green beans and mushrooms
- Rye bread
- Lettuce wedges with sour cream dressing
- Cherry-vanilla ice cream and sugar cookies
- Coffee for adults; milk for children
Thursday Menu
Breakfast
- Pineapple juice
- Oatmeal with top milk
- Scrambled eggs
- Toast with marmalade
- Coffee for adults, cocoa for children
Lunch
- Navy bean soup
- Bread and butter
- Green salad (for adults)
- Cherry gelatin
- Tea for adults, milk for children
Dinner
- Spiced cranberry cocktail
- Roast chicken
- Baked noodles
- Asparagus with drawn butter
- Corn sticks
- Combination salad
- Chocolate cream pie
- Coffee for adults, milk for children
Friday Menu (Fish for Fridays!)
Breakfast
- Orange juice
- Oatmeal with top milk
- Soft-boiled eggs
- Toast with butter and strawberry preserves
- Coffee for adults, cocoa for children
Lunch
- Tuna-fish sandwiches
- Raw vegetable sticks (for children); green salad (for adults)
- Vanilla cake
- Tea for adults, milk for children
Dinner
- Tomato juice cocktail
- Shrimp spaghetti
- Buttered carrots
- Hot French bread
- Mixed green salad
- Banana cream pie
- Coffee for adults, milk for children
Saturday Menu
Breakfast
- Half grapefruits
- Hot wheat cereal with top milk and apricots
- Poached eggs
- Toasted English muffins
- Hollandaise sauce
- Coffee for adults; cocoa for children
Lunch
- Fish sticks with tartar sauce
- French fries
- Tossed salad
- Milkshakes
Dinner
- Olives and cheese-stuffed celery
- Breaded cutlet milanese
- Spaghetti with mushroom sauce
- Garlic bread
- Italian salad
- Biscuit tortoni
- Coffee for adults, milk for children
Sunday Menu
Breakfast
- Orange cups
- Dates in wheat cereal with top milk
- Sausage links
- Pancakes with syrup
- Coffee for adults, cocoa for children
Old-Fashioned Sunday Dinner
- Dairyland dip and potato chips
- Rolled rib roast of beef with brown gravy
- Mashed potatoes
- Buttered broccoli
- Parker house rolls
- Cinnamon applesauce salad
- Pecan pie with vanilla ice cream
- Coffee for adults, milk for children
Sunday Supper (a repeat because this is so good!)
- Toasted oyster rolls
- Celery, olives, and cranberry sauce
- Baked pears with ice cream
- Cocoa 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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