Meal Plan of the Month #1

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Total Home Makeover offers a simple system for mom to keep her home neat & tidy with delicious meals on the table, and have time to spare.  A great place to start is Step 1: A Daily Routine {with free printable} and the Quick Start Kit. ​

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Is your family getting proper daily nutritional requirements for optimal health and beauty?  Meal Plan of the Month #1 offers a balanced meal plan for the whole family -gainer, loser, adolescent, or normal weight adult.  Use this vintage-inspired meal plan (with diet key) as a guide for your meal planning. 

"The menus we give you are so planned that if desired they may be followed by every member of the family -the over, under, and middleweight adults and normal adolescents -according to the individual needs of each.  Moreover, no extra preparation of meals is required" (source).

• Underweight:  eat everything on the daily menu including (+) items. 
• Overweight:  don't eat (x) items, and eat only half portion of (-) items.  No snacks.
• Normal Weight Adult: eat everything except omit between meal snacks. 

​Need to determine your daily calorie allotment and track beauty progress? 
Reserve your seat in our summer online Charm School for moms & daughters (age 13+).

Key

​(+) for the gainer and normal adolescent
(x) do not eat (-) eat half portion for loser
Normal weight adults omit snacks

Today's Calorie Counter
..........................................................,,,..  2,515
...............................................................  1,135
...............................................................  1,720
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Breakfast

1 cup organic tomato juice
1 scrambled organic egg
2 slices low calorie organic whole wheat toast (-)
2 tsp. organic butter (-)
1 cup organic milk (x)
​coffee (optional)

Mid-morning SNack (+)

1 cup organic milk
​1 organic banana

Lunch

1 cup light creamy mushroom soup
1 cup light broccoli salad
2 slices french bread toasted (-)
2 tsp. butter or olive oil (x)
​1 apple, sliced
tea (optional)

Mid-Afternoon Snack (+)

1 cup milk
​2 graham crackers

Dinner

1 slice beef pot roast
1 medium potato
1/4 cup gravy (-)
1/2 cup steamed carrot
1 cup lettuce & tomato salad
1 tbsp. light French dressing (-)
1/2 cup fresh berries
2 sugar cookies (-)
   decaf coffee, optional

Bed-Time Snack (+)

1 cup whole organic milk (hot chocolate)
2 graham crackers

Additional Resources

On the blog:

• Renee's Meal Plan
• Meal Plan with Molly Green
  
• Meal Plan Tutorial + Free Printable​

In the shop:

• Meal Plan Tracker
• Recipe Cards
• Quick Start Kit​​

Source:  John Robert Powers and Mary Sue Miller.  Secrets of Charm, John C. Winston Company, Philadelphia & Toronto, 1954.