This is because it digests rapidly.

What he needs is a little fat stirred into the mush before it is sent to the table, or butter as well as milk and sugar served with it.

If one must economize, the cereal breakfast should always be the rule.

It is impossible in any other way to provide for a family adequately on a small sum, especially where there are growing children.
Next to oatmeal, hominy is one of the cheapest breakfast foods.

It has less flavor and is improved by the addition of a few dates cut into quarters or some small stewed seedless raisins, which also add the iron which hominy lacks.