cerealless

One breakfast each week will be without cereal, and 1 day is observed as breadless. And here’s what these savings will amount to: 4,300 pounds of bread will be saved each week; 1,345 pounds of flour would have gone into the tops of pies; and the cerealless breakfast accounts for a saving of 60 pounds of hot and 30 pounds of dry cereal a week.

1946 May, U. S. Department of Agriculture, “‘Food—the last word’”, in Consumers’ Guide, volume XII, number 5, Washington, D.C., →OCLC, page 10, column 1

Monday evening now is cerealless in India’s cities of over 1 million population. This means that no hotels or restaurants are allowed to serve anything made of wheat or rice—the staples of the Indian meal—after 3 p.m.

1966 May 1, Warren Unna, “Indiana Rationing Grows—Shopowners Feel Pinch; Bachelors Hardest Hit”, in The Washington Post, volume 112, part 8, Washington, D.C., →ISSN, →OCLC; quoted in Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 89ᵗʰ Congress, Second Session, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 5 May 1966, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9919, column 2