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food is so poorly prepared that the stomach loathes it, and such have
told me that the health reform did not agree with them; that they were
decreasing in physical strength. Here is one reason why some have
not been successful in their efforts to simplify their food. They have a
poverty-stricken diet. Food is prepared without painstaking, and there
is a continual sameness. There should not be many kinds at any one
meal, but all meals should not be composed of the same kinds of food
without variation. Food should be prepared with simplicity, yet with a
nicety which will invite the appetite. You should keep grease out of
your food. It defiles any preparation of food you may take. Eat largely
of fruits and vegetables.
Manuscript 3, 1897
Great care should be taken when the change is made from a flesh-
meat to a vegetarian diet to supply the table with wisely prepared,
well-cooked articles of food. So much porridge eating is a mistake.
The dry food that requires mastication is far preferable. The health
food preparations are a blessing in this respect. Good brown bread and
rolls, prepared in a simple manner yet with painstaking effort will be
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healthful. Bread should never have the slightest taint of sourness. It
should be cooked until it is most thoroughly done. Thus all softness
and stickiness will be avoided.
For those who can use them, good vegetables, prepared in a health-
ful manner, are better than soft mushes or porridge. Fruits used with
thoroughly cooked bread two or three days old, will be more health-
ful than fresh bread. This, with slow and thorough mastication, will
furnish all that the system requires.