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Batik Textile Designs

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Ceplok

Parang

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Batik Pattern

Batik Designs

Although there are thousands of different batik designs, particular designs have traditionally been associated with traditional festivals and specific religious ceremonies. Previously, it was thought that certain cloth had mystical power to ward off ill fortune, while other pieces could bring good luck. Certain batik designs are reserved for brides and bridegrooms as well as their families. Other design are reserved for the Sultan and his family or their attendants. A person's rank could be determined by the pattern of the batik he/she wore. In general, there are two categories of batik design: geometric motifs (which tend to be the earlier designs) and free form designs, which are based on stylized pattern of natural forms or imitation of a woven texture. Nitik is the most famous design illustrating this effect. Certain areas are know for a predominance of certain designs. Central Javanese designs are influenced by traditional patterns and colors. Batik from the north coast of Java, near Pekalongan and Cirebon, have been greatly influenced by Chinese culture and effect brighter colors and more intricate flower and cloud designs. High fashion designs drawn on silk are very popular with wealthy Indonesians. These exceptionally high-quality pieces can take months to create and costs hundred off dollars.

Kawung

Kawung is another very old design consisting of intersecting circles, known in Java since at least the thirteenth century. This design has appeared carved into the walls of many temples throughout Java such as Prambanan near Jogjakarta and Kediri in East Java. For many years, this pattern was reserved for the royal court of the Sultan of Jogjakarta. The circles are sometimes embellished inside with two or more small crosses or other ornaments such as intersecting lines or doors. It has been suggested that the ovals might represent flora such as the fruit of the kapok (silk cotton) tree or the aren (sugar palm)

Ceplok

Ceplok is general name for a whole series of geometric design based on squares, rhombs, circles, stars, etc. Although fundamentally geometric, ceplok can also represent abstractions and stylization of flowers, buds, seeds and even animals. Variations in color intensity can create illusions of depth and the overall effects are not unlike medallion patterns seen on Turkish tribal rugs. The Indonesian population is largely Muslim, a religion that forbids the portrayal of animal and human forms in a realistic manner. To get around this prohibition, the batik worker does not attempt to express this matter in a realistic form. A single element of the form is chosen and then that element is repeated again and again in the pattern.

Parang

Parang was once used exclusively by the royal courts of Central Java. It has several suggested meaning such as 'rugged rock', 'knife pattern' or 'broken blade'. The Parang design consists of slanting rows of thick knife-like segments running in parallel diagonal bands. Parang usually alternated with narrower bands in a darker contrasting color. These darker bands contain another design element, a line of lozenge-shaped motif call mlijon. There are many variations of this basic striped pattern with its elegant sweeping lines, with over forty parang designs recorded. The most famous is the 'Parang Rusak' which in its most classical form consisting of rows of softly folded parang. This motif also appears in media other than batik, including wood carving and as ornamentation on gamelan mucosal instruments.

Origin of Batik

The word batik is thought to be derived from the word 'ambatik' which translated means 'a cloth with little dots'. The suffix 'tik' means little dot, drop, point or to make dots. Batik may also originate from the Javanese word 'tritik' which describes a resist process for dying where the patterns are reserved on the textiles by tying and sewing areas prior to dying, similar to tie dye techniques. Another Javanese phase for the mystical experience of making batik is “mbatik manah” which means “drawing a batik design on the heart”.

Although the process of decorating cloth through the process of batik is found in several regions in Africa or India and even in some South East Asian countries, the batik of Indonesia is unique and unequalled.

Indonesian Batik is made in several regions, but the center of the art is Central Java, in cities like Yogyakarta, Solo, Cirebon, Pekalongan and Indramayu.

The pride of Indonesians to wear batik till the present day has preserved this art of textile.

The beauty of Batik is a tribute to the patience, creativity of the woman of Java, the main island of Indonesia. Credit should be also given to men who prepare the cloth and handle the dyeing and finishing process.

All About Batik

Although experts disagree as the precise origins of batik, samples of dye resistance patterns on cloth can be traced back 1,500 years ago to Egypt and the Middle East. Sample have also been found in Turkeys, India, Chine, Japan and West Africa from past centuries. Although in these countries people were using the technique of dye resisting decoration, within the textile realm, none have developed batik to its present day art form as the highly developed intricate batik found on the island of Java in Indonesia.

Although there is mention of "fabrics highly decorated" in Dutch transcripts from the 17th century, most scholars believe that the interactive Javanese batik designs would only have been possible after the importation of finely woven imported cloth, which was first imported to Indonesia from India around the 1800s and afterwards from Europe beginning in 1815. Textile patterns can be seen on stone statues that are carved on the walls of ancient Javanese temples such as Prambanan (AD 800), however there is no conclusive evidence that the cloth is batik. It could possibly be a pattern that was produced with weaving techniques and not dying. What is clear is that in the 19th century batik became highly developed and was well ingrained in Javanese cultural life.

Some experts feel that batik was originally reserved as an art form for Javanese royalty. Certainly its royal nature was clear as certain patterns were reserved to be worn only by royalty from the Sultan's palace. Princesses and noble women may have provided the inspiration for the highly refined design senses evident in traditional patterns. It is highly unlikely though that they would be involved in any more than the first wax application. Most likely, the messy work of dyeing and subsequent waxing was left to court artisans who would work under their supervision.

Javanese royalty were know to be great patrons of the arts and provided the support necessary to develop many art forms, such as silver ornamentation, wayang kulit (leather puppets) and gamelan orchestras. In some cases the art forms overlap. The Javanese's dalang (puppeteer) not only was responsible for the wayang puppets but was also an important source of batik patterns. They would blow charcoal trough the holes that define the patterns of clothing on the puppets, in order to copy the intricate designs onto the cloth.

Other scholar disagree that batik was only reserved as an art form for royalty, as they also feel its use was prevalent with the rakyat, the people. It was regarded and important part of a young ladies accomplishment that she be capable of as important as cookery and other housewifery arts to Central Javanese women.

Selection and Preparation of the Cloth

Natural material such as cotton or silk are used for the cloth, so that it can absorb the wax that is applied in the dye resisting process. The fabrics must be of a high thread count (densely woven). It is important that cloth of high quality have this thread count so that the intricate design qualities of batik can be maintained.

Design Process

The outline of the pattern is blocked out onto the cloth, traditionally with charcoal or graphite. Traditional batik designs utilize patterns handed down over the generation. It is very seldom that an artisan is so skilled that he can work from memory and would not need to draw an outline of the pattern before applying the wax. Often designs are traced from stencils or pattern called pola. Another method of tracing a pattern onto a cloth is by laying the cloth on a glass a pencil. In large batik factories today, men usually are in charge of drawing the patterns onto the cloth.

Waxing

Once the design is drawn out onto the cloth it is the ready to be waxed. Wax is applied to the cloth over the areas of the design that the artisan wishes to remain the original color of the cloth. Normally this is white or cream.

Female workers sit on a low stool or on a matt to apply the wax with a canting. The fabric that they are working on is draped over light bamboo frames called gawangan to allow the freshly applied wax to coll and harden. The wax is heated in the wajan until it is of desired consistency. The artisan then dips her canting into the wax fill the bowl of the canting.

Artisans use the wax to retrace the pencil outline on the fabric. A small drop cloth is kept on the woman's lap to protect her from hot dripping wax. The stem of the canting is held with the right hand in a horizontal position to prevent any accidental spillage, which greatly reduces the value of the final cloth. The left hand is placed behind the fabric for support. The spout does no touch the fabric, but it held just above the area the artisan is working on. To ensure the pattern is well defined, batik is waxed on both sides. Trues tulis batik is reversible, as the pattern should be identical on both sides.

The most experienced artisans normally do first waxing. Filling in of large areas may be entrusted to less experienced artisans. Mistakes are very difficult to correct. If wax is accidentally split on the cloth, the artisan will try to remove the unwanted wax by sponging it with hot water. Then a heated iron rod with a curved and is used to try and lift off the remaining wax. Spilled wax can never be completely removed so it is imperative that artisans are very careful. If the cap method is utilized, this procedure is normally done by men. The cap are dipped into melted wax. Just under the surface of the melted wax is a folded cloth approximately 30 centimeters square. When this cloth it saturated with wax it acts like a stamp pad. The cap is pressed into the fabric until the design side of the cap is coated with wax. The saturated cap is then stamped onto the fabric, leaving the design of the cap. This process is repeated until the entire cloth is covered. Often cap and canting methods are combined on the same piece of cloth. Better quality batik may be waxed utilizing canting in one part of Indonesia and then sent to another part of Indonesia where the cap part of the process is completed. On better quality cap fabric great care is taken to match the pattern exactly. Lower grade batik is characterized by overlapping lines or lightened colored lines indicating the cap was not applied correctly.

Dyeing

After the initial wax been applied, the fabric is ready for the first dye bath. Traditionally dying was done in earthenware tubs. Today most batik factories use large concrete vats. Above the vats are ropes with pulleys that the fabric is draped over after it has been dipped into the dye bath. The waxed fabric is immersed in the dye bath of the first color. The amount of time it is left in the bath determines the hue of the color; darker colors require longer periods or numerous immersions. The fabric is then put into a cold water bath to harden the wax.

When the desired color has been achieved and the fabric has dried, wax is reapplied over the areas that the artisan wishes to maintain the first dye color or another color at a later stage in the dying process. When an area that has been covered with wax previously needs to be exposed so that it can be dyed, the applied wax is scraped away with small knife. The area is then sponged with hot water and resized with rice starch before it is re-immersed in the subsequent dye bath.

If marble effect is desired, the wax is intentionally cracked before being placed in the dya bath. The dye seeps into the tiny cracks that create the file lines that are characteristic of batik. Traditionally, cracks were a sign of inferior cloth especially on indigo color batik. On brown batik, however, the marble effect was accepted. The number of colors in batik represents how many times it was immersed in the dye bath and how many times wax had to be applied and removed. A multicolored batik represents a lot more work that a single or two-color piece. Numerous dye processes are usually reflected in the price of the cloth. Nowadays, chemical dyes have pretty much replaced traditional dyes, so colors are endless and much more liberally used.

What’s your competency? Any employer will let you know about it, but how to be with motherhood? After it is even harder, than most difficult work. How to know whether you can cope with it? Arrange an examination on your professional parental suitability and learn what you can.

Most likely, many will agree that it is not difficult to become parents. For this purpose you should not have either a certain position in a society, or life experience. Nobody will ask to show your diploma of vocational education, when you take away a baby from maternity home. Nobody will arrange an examination on your professional parental suitability. The question is how to become good parents? It is hard. Why?

Reasons of complexity

1. You will learn this nowhere

We do not talk about school or any other educational institutions of general character. After all, the subject is - how to bring up a child correctly, to help him becoming a Person. It is a question of how to understand his problems and troubles, find common language with him, grow up a useful citizen of society. Agree, this is not so easy.

2. Absence of motivation

Secondly, we do not have special desire to receive knowledge in this area. We are not accustomed to it either by our parents, or society we live in. In many respects we receive our knowledge of children education in a family where we were brought up. They say «like father like son». We behave ourselves in relation to our children the way we were brought up by our parents. But here it is necessary to reflect that, maybe our children deserve better relation. After all, these are our children! Whether it is possible to correct this situation? Certainly it is. There should be a desire and aspiration.

What to do, to become good parents for your children?

1. Search the best example and best council

Good parents are ready to search for council to bring up their children better. Where should you search? There are people who are able, at least, to try being good parents and they are successful in it. You can see this through results of their work, their children, their children’s families. Perhaps, there are such people among your relatives, colleagues or friends? If you see and know results of their children’s education, you can learn from them how they do it. What person will not want to impart experience and knowledge in this area with you, if you can estimate his efforts on advantage and, having told him about it, ask some councils on this theme.

2. Be cautious with literature

It is certainly possible to address to corresponding literature: various books, recommendations of teachers, but here you should be cautious. Cautious in respect that today there is a lot of councils about it and you can find literature everywhere. Believe that many councils of those who consider themselves as experts in this business, contradict each other at times. The main criterion are results these or that methods of children education lead to. Therefore here it is necessary to be 100 % assured that we choose right education methods, differently consequences can be pitiable.

3. Be an example

This is a very important point in chidlren’s education, it is difficult to overestimate it. It is not necessary to learn children to a principle «do like me», they do this practically since birth. Therefore throughout all time of child education, his formation as a person, you can bring up a daughter or son thtough your behaviour.

Sometimes it happens that someone says about our children: «dead spit of his/her father/mother» and this similarity noticed by other people, it not only external. Our children adopt our manner to speak, laugh, joke. They imitate us (since early age) in the way we behave with relatives, other people, neighbours. Children notice all our habits and, without suspecting, start to imitate them, because parents are the most important authority for them in early age.

4. Avoid «double standards»

Do you know, what disorient a child most of all? What irritates him, destabilises him in perception of world around and drops our authority in his eyes? If our words are out of sync with our affairs. If we teach a child one thing and result a very convincing argument in favour of it, and then our child sees or hears, how we act in another way. In this case all our words can appear not only useless, but even harmful.

Such tactics of behaviour, tactics of “double standards” irritates us when we face it in life (maybe on work or somewhere else). But in much bigger degree such behaviour of “double standards” irritates our children and does not do us honour as to their parents.

Well and to make your child seeing your example, it is necessary …

5. Find time for a child

Children require it. They miss, when we are not present, when we leave somewhere, when we work a lot. And though we work to provide our children with all necessary for life, it is important to remember that our children require not only meal, clothes, entertainment subjects, but also first of all our attention, time, councils and understanding.

Certainly, depending on age, requirements of our children vary. But if we wish to have close and confidential relations, they need to be arranged since early childhood. Then, when our children mature, have awkward age, thanks to good exchange of thoughts and confidential relations, we will be able to help them. Since childhood they will get used to the fact that their parents always find time for them, ready to postpone their affairs to listen to a child. And all this happens because parents love their children and prove them their love in word and deed.

All products and drinks listed below can be used in food without restrictions: dried and fresh grasses, lemon juice, lettuce leaves of all sorts, grassy teas, fruit teas, water and mineral water. And the most important thing – eat slowly, quietly and with pleasure!

Day o1

After dream. A cup of lemon tea

Breakfast 150 ml orange juice, 150 ml yoghurt, 1 banana.

Snack 1 rye crispbread with 50 g squeezed cottage cheese.

Lunch 50 g firm cheese, 2 rye small loafs with low-fat margarine, Salad from tomatoes, lettuce leaves, sweet pepper, cucumbers and crushed basil with low-calorie “French seasoning” (sauce for refuelling of salads from olive oil, mustard and vinegar),

1 peach or apple.

Snack 15 g sunflower seeds, Cup of grassy tea.

Dinner Middle piece of chicken fried on grill or baked, 75 g young potato, Salad from 1 celery, half of apple, 12 g kernels of walnuts with 1 dessertspoon low-calorie mayonnaise, 1 dessertspoon natural yoghurt and 1 teaspoon lemon juice, and also chopped parsley to taste

Or 1 portion of hen with saffron and orange, Or 1 portion of hen in honey with 5 table spoons brown rice, 225 g melon

Day 2

After dream Fruit tea at your choice

Breakfast Fruit salad from slices of melon, strawberry or kiwi, pineapple, an apple and banana – gross weight – 275 g, 50 g cottage cheese or house cheese, 1 teaspoon honey.

Snack 2 fresh cookies with 1 dessertspoon nut oil

Lunch Salad as in 1st day, Half of small avocado watered with low-fat “French seasoning”, 1 small piece of bread with bran with light margarine.

Snack Fruit yoghurt

Dinner 175 g fillet of any sea fish, fried on grill or boiled, 100 g potato “in jackets”, 150 g boiled broccoli with 75 g boiled string bean. Pour with lemon juice

Or 1 portion baked fish fillet plus 75 g young potato and 100 g broccoli, Or 1 portion flounder in mushroom sauce plus 100 g young potato and 75 g string beans, an orange or 1 kiwi at your choice.

Day 3

After dream Lemon tea

Breakfast Half of grapefruit, 35 g unsalted muesli in 100 ml skim milk

Snack

50 g house cheese or cottage cheese, 1 celery and 2 dates.

Lunch Boiled egg on lettuce, watered with 1 table spoon low-calorie mayonnaise, Kress-salad or parsley for garnish, 1 small piece of bread with light margarine, 1 orange.

Snack 25 g kernels of wood nuts, 150 g natural yoghurt

Dinner 1 middle fast mutton chop fried on grill, 100 g peas, 100 g boiled carrot, 75 g mashed potatoes without salt, 2 teaspoons mint sauce

Or 1 portion stewed beef with citrus plus big bunch of greens and 75 g young potato, 100 g cherry or 1 apple.

Day 4

After dream 100 ml orange juice

Breakfast 150 g soaked and cut dried apricots which has been filled in 100 g kefir or yoghurt.

Snack 1 apple, 1 fresh cooky with 50 g skim milk, cotton cheese and a cucumber.

Lunch 225 g melon, 75 g boiled hen, Salad from tomatoes and cucumbers with crushed basil, 1 small bran roll with light margarine Or 1 portion of salad from hen with rice.

Snack 1 orange

Dinner Half of grapefruit, 100 g salmon fillet or 175 g trout, stewed or baked in an oven, 100 г peas, 75 g young potato with 10 g butter, lemon juice to your taste Or 1 portion of trout with fennel with 75 g young potato watered with light kindled margarine, plus 75 g peas, 100 g strawberry, raspberry or cherry and 1 kiwi.

Day 5

After dream Lemon tea

Breakfast 35 g any unsalted cereals from ready breakfasts in degreased milk.

Snack 225 g melon or 1 orange, 25 g cheese “Edam”

Lunch Salad from 50 g tuna in oil or sardines with cut cucumbers, celery, an apple and 100 g boiled macaroni, watered with fast “French seasoning” and decorated with lettuce and crushed parsley.

Snack Melon or water-melon slice, Cotton cheese with fruits.

Dinner 1 average chicken fillet, watered with a mix from 50 ml natural semiboldface yoghurt and 1 dessertspoon flour, - fry on gril within 30 minutes or bake in an oven for 45 minutes, 75 g boiled crude rice, 2 table spoons cut cucumbers with yoghurt or kefir, 1 tomato cut in slices with chopped basil, Or 1 portion hen with sweet pepper, Or 1 portion turkey in sherry. Serve with 100 g young potato and salad from greens, watered with lemon juice

Day 6

After dream 100 ml orange juice.

Breakfast 150 ml natural low-calorie yoghurt decorated with 100 g strawberry, raspberry or kiwi slices, plus 15 g oatmeal flakes.

Snack 1 rye crispbread with a dessertspoon of nut oil

Lunch Melon or water-melon slice, Salad from 50 г kernels of wood nuts or unsalted peanut, 175 g grated carrots and 25 g cut dates, watered with a mix from 1 dessertspoon of olive oil with about 50 ml orange juice, pepper, 1 small roll from bran or half pita.

Snack 1 orange or 1 banana.

Dinner 100 g very fast roast beef, 50 g young potato, 100 g cauliflower, 100 g greens, 100 g grated swede or turnip, 1 dessertspoon of grated horse-radish. Seasoning from meat juice, half of meat broth cup and 1 teaspoon flour Or 1 portion fried beef in oyster sauce, Or 1 portion mushroom pilaf

Day 7

After dream Fruit tea

Breakfast Half of grapefruit, 1 boiled egg, 1 rye small loaf with light margarine

Snack 1 peach, 1 cotton cheese

Lunch 50 g “Mozarella” cheese, 2 average tomato, chopped basil, 1 dessertspoon olive oil, Lettuce

Snack 1 rye small loaf with 50 g semiboldface processed cheese, 1 orange.

Dinner 100 g mutton liver or 2 mutton kidneys, fried on grill or teflon frying pan in a teaspoon of corn oil, 75 g young potato, 150 g broccoli, 50 g string bean, 1 average tomato. Seasoning from meat juice and 25 ml red wine, some water, 1 teaspoon tomato paste and 1 teaspoon corn flour Or 1 portion fried liver with 4 table spoons boiled brown rice, Or 1 portion stuffed pepper with salad from greens, 50 f ice-cream or 1 glass any dry wine at your choice.

Day 8

After dream Fruit tea

Breakfast 150 g kefir or natural yoghurt, mixed with 175 g fresh cut fruits and 1 teaspoon honey

Snack 1 banana, 25 g dry dried apricots (soak or boil)

Lunch 2 rye small loafs with light margarine, Salad from fruits and cheese: mix 50 g slices of “Edam” cheese with 100 g melon or water-melon cut in slices, 1 circle of fresh or tinned pineapple, 150 g cut cucumbers and sprinkle all with lemon juice with a pinch of grated ginger. Decorate with chopped parsley.

Snack 1 orange, 1 small cotton cheese with fruits

Dinner 175 g low-fat fish fillet baked in foil, 100 g green sweet pepper and 100 g tomatoes fried in 1 dessertspoon vegetable oil, 75 g boiled rice Or 1 portion shish kebab from fish with 3 table spoons boiled brown rice Or 1 portion flounder under a piquant sauce plus 100 g young potato and 75 g broccoli

Day 9

After dream Lemon tea

Breakfast As in 1st day

Snack 1 rye small loaf, 1 celery with 50 g cottage cheese

Lunch “Greek” salad: mix 1 boiled chopped egg with 75 г tuna in oil (sardines, sprats) and 75 g cooled boiled potato, 75 g cooled string bean or peas, 1 mature strong tomato and 100 g lettuce – chop all and water with fast “French seasoning”

Snack 1 orange, 1 apple or peach

Dinner 100 g roast chicken, 150 g marrows and 1 tomato, fry with 1 dessertspoon vegetable oil, 75 g string bean, 75 g sweet corn, 1 teaspoon flour for meat sauce Or 1 portion hen under nut sauce, Or 1 portion stuffed chicken fillet with 50 g sweet potato and salad from greens.

Day 10

After dream Fruit tea at your choice.

Breakfast As in 2nd day

Snack 50 g cottage cheese with 1 celery.

Lunch 1 small piece of bread with light margarine, Salad from 75 g grains of young corncobs, 100 g string bean and 50 g peas – boil for a while and cool, then add 15 g kernels of walnut and water with natural low-calorie yoghurt or kefir mixed with 1 dessertspoon low-fat mayonnaise, lemon juice and a pinch of Cayenne pepper.

Snack 1 dessertspoon nut oil on 1 rye small loaf

Dinner 150-gramme fried beef cutlet from very fast meat with greens, 1 teaspoon of tomato mashed potatoes and soya sauce, 25 g grated “Edam” cheese, warmed up slightly, 100 g potato in jackets, 150 g eggplants fried in a dessertspoon of vegetable oil Or 1 portion stuffed eggplants, Or 1 portion mutton shish kebab with mint sauce with 6 table spoons boiled brown rice and salad from tomatoes.

Day 11

After dream Lemon tea

Breakfast As in 3rd day

Snack 25 g “Edam” cheese and 1 celery.

Lunch 350 g home lentil soup, 1 orange

Snack 25 g sunflower seeds

Dinner 100 g fast mutton meat baked in foil with 50 g cut Bulgarian pepper and 1 teaspoon crushed fennel, 100 g string bean, 100 g broccoli Or 1 portion veal with eggplants with 75 g boiled brown rice or macaroni from not sifted flour, 175 g any fruits plus 25 ml low-fat cream or yoghurt

Day 12

After dream 100 ml orange juice

Breakfast As in 4th day

Snack 1 banana

Lunch Half of small avocado with stuffing from 50 g crab meat, 1 table spoon low-calorie mayonnaise and 1 teaspoon lemon juice. Serve on lettuce leaves, having strewed with parsley, Melon slice.

Snack 1 cup strawberry or 1 orange, 1 cotton cheese.

Dinner Omelette from 2 eggs, roasted on 10 g butter, with 75 g cut field mushrooms and 50 g grains of sweet corn, Salad from greens, 1 small piece of bread with light margarine Or 1 portion of fried eggs Or 1 portion of fried marrows

Day 13

After dream Lemon tea

Breakfast As in 5th day

Snack 1 orange, 15 g sunflower seeds

Lunch 1 portion salad-soup, 50 g “Bri” cheese and 2 rye small loafs.

Snack 1 apple and 50 g cherry or grape.

Dinner 1 average trout (nearby 200), fried on grill or with 1 teaspoon vegetable oil, 25 g slightly roasted almonds, 50 g young potato, 75 g string bean or chopped spinach, 75 g peas Or 1 portion salmon under lemon sauce with cream plus 100 g young potato and 75 g siliculose string bean.

Day 14

After dream 100 ml orange juice

Breakfast As in 6th day

Snack 2 unsalted crackers with 1 dessertspoon nut oil.

Lunch Salad from chopped celery, lettuce leaves, Bulgarian pepper and cucumbers with 50 g grated “Edam” cheese, 1 rye small loaf with light margarine

Snack 1 apple, 1 cotton cheese with fruits.

Dinner 1 average boiled or fried chicken fillet, smeared with garlick paste, and with 1 teaspoon ground rosemary, 75 g string bean, 100 g carrot or chopped spinach, 75 g boiled rice Or 1 portion hen with ginger, Or 1 portion liver with sage with 75 g young potato and 75 g spinach, 1 orange

Day 15

After dream Fruit tea

Breakfast As in 7th day

Snack 1 fruit low-fat yoghurt, 1 apple.

Lunch Salad from 100 g boiled broccoli and 50 g peas, mixed with 50 g Bulgarian pepper, spinach and 25 g almonds, seasoned with 1 table spoon olive oil, mixed with lemon juice and spices, 1 orange.

Snack 50 g squeezed cottage cheese, 2 rye small loafs with light margarine

Dinner 150 g fried fast beef, 75 g string bean, 50 g young potato, 10 g butter Or 1 portion stake with mustard, string bean and potato, but without butter, 225 g any fruits.