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Counsels on Diet and Foods
food, for the reason that the vitality must be drawn from the system to
warm the food until it becomes of the same temperature as the stomach
before the work of digestion can be carried on. Another very simple
yet wholesome dish, is beans boiled or baked. Dilute a portion of them
with water, add milk or cream, and make a broth; the bread can be used
as in graham gruel.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:602, 603, 1870
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Selling Candies, Ice Cream, etc., on Campground—529, 530
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Needless Cooking in Preparing for Camp Meeting—57
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The Picnic Lunch
125. Let several families living in a city or village unite and leave
the occupations which have taxed them physically and mentally, and
make an excursion into the country, to the side of a fine lake, or to
a nice grove, where the scenery of nature is beautiful. They should
provide themselves with plain, hygienic food, the very best fruits and
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grains, and spread their table under the shade of some tree or under
the canopy of heaven. The ride, the exercise, and the scenery will
quicken the appetite, and they can enjoy a repast which kings might
envy.—
Testimonies for the Church 1:514, 1867
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Avoid Excess in Cooking—793
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Advice to Sedentary Workers—225
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Simplicity in Sabbath Dietary—56
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126. Let those who advocate health reform strive earnestly to make
it all that they claim it is. Let them discard everything detrimental to
health. Use simple, wholesome food. Fruit is excellent, and saves
much cooking. Discard rich pastries, cakes, desserts, and the other
dishes prepared to tempt the appetite. Eat fewer kinds of food at one
meal, and eat with thanksgiving.—
Letter 135, 1902
Simplicity in Entertaining
127. Christ has given in His own life a lesson of hospitality. When
surrounded by the hungry multitude beside the sea, He did not send
them unrefreshed to their homes. He said to His disciples, “Give ye
them to eat.”
Matthew 14:16
. And by an act of creative power He
supplied food sufficient to satisfy their need. Yet how simple was the
food provided! There were no luxuries. He who had all the resources
of heaven at His command could have spread for the people a rich