Fish Diet: 1 Week Meal Plan
Virtually everyone who has dieted knows that fish is a low calorie food.
While it’s not everybody’s favorite, it offers an excellent source of protein and is truly the best value in calories. If the fish specified in diet isn’t available, substitute with any of the following: bass, bonito, butterfish, cod, eel, flounder, halibut, fresh herring, mussels, oyster, caviar, sturgeon, shad, scallops.
DAY 1
Breakfast
½ grapefruit
1 slice toast
2 tbsps.diet margarine
Coffee or tea
Lunch
3 oz. tuna salad made with:
½ stalk chopped cerlery
¼ small onion, chopped
1 tsp. diet mayonnaise
½ head lettuce
1 tbsp.diet dressing
2 Melba toast rounds
Dinner
6 oz. blue fish (broiled, poached or baked)
with herbs and lemon juice
½ cup wax beans
½ cup cooked boiled potato
Snack
Celery sticks from 2 stalks of celery
DAY 2
Breakfast
½ cup orange juice
1 slice toast
2 tsp. grape jelly
Coffee or tea
Lunch
3 oz.shrimp salad (made same way as tuna salad in day 1)
½ head lettuce
2 pretzel sticks
Coffee or tea
Dinner
6 oz. lobster meat (plain boiled with lemon juice
or as a salad in lunch meals)
½ cup cooked white rice
1 cup cooked spinach
Snacks
1 bread stick, 2 carrots, 1 apple
DAY 3
Breakfast
1 egg, poached
1 slice toast
1 tsp.diet margarine
Coffee or tea
Lunch
2 oz. sardines (5 sardines)
Tossed salad with mixed greens
½ tomat in wedges
1 tbsp.diet dressing
2 Melba toast rounds’
Dinner
6 oz. broiled haddock(prepared same as blue fish, Day1)
1 baked potato
1 tsp. diet margarine
1 cup cooked cabbage
Snacks
1 apple, 1 orange in slices
DAY 4
Breakfast
1 cup hot or cold cereal
1 banana
3 oz. low-fat skim milk
Coffee or tea
Lunch
2 oz. herring tidbits
½ head lettuce
1 tbsp.diet dressing
1 breadstick
Iced tea
Dinner
6 oz. clams (or 6 raw on half shell)
3 tbsp.coctail sauce
½ cup broccoli
½ cup cooked white or brown rice
Snacks
1 pear, carrot sticks
DAY 5
Breakfast
4 oz.pickled herring
1 slice toast
Coffee or tea
Lunch
3 oz.tuna salad (made as Day1)
½ head lettuce
1 tbsp. diet dressing
2 Melba toast rounds
Dinner
6 oz broiled mackerel (prepared as on Day1)
10 large asparagus spears
1 baked potato
1 tsp.diet margarine
Beverage
Snacks
Celery sticks, 1 bread stick, 1 medium tangerine
