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Posted: 2023-07-12T14:32:57Z | Updated: 2023-07-12T14:32:57Z

A trove of never-before-seen notes and correspondence from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis has hit the auction block and reveals what she and husband John F. Kennedy regularly ate for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

The items in question are currently being sold to the highest bidder by Boston-based RR Auction and date between May and August 1958, when the couple lived in Washington, D.C. s Georgetown neighborhood while Kennedy was serving as a Massachusetts senator .

Onassis penned many of the handwritten notes to personal chef and housekeeper Tania Herbst in French in order to maintain her fluency, according to the auction house. In an English note regarding the daily breakfast, Onassis was rather clear.

Mr. K2 poached eggs on Pepperidge toast rounds, crisp over broiled bacon, orange juice-pepperidge white toast-coffee-marmalade. Mrs. Korange juice coffee toast-skim milk (order toast with no calories) 4 minute boiled egg, the note said, according to RR Auction.

She continued: 1 envelope Knox gelatin on breakfast tray. Mr. K can eat nothing friedHe likes all these creamed foods, so just give me a salad + raw fruit in place of his desserts + vegetables.

Other requested meals included: cream soup, elbow macaroni salad, broiled chicken, baked potatoes, steak, hamburgers and a raw pear for Mrs. Kennedy. Onassis also wrote out a homemade egg muffin recipe in a mixture of French and English.