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First week on the Maggi diet
Last reviewed: 04.07.2025

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The Maggi diet is based on the principle of eliminating fats and carbohydrates from the diet. The main emphasis is on the consumption of proteins contained either in eggs or cottage cheese. It includes certain vegetables, fruits, both fresh and frozen, lean fish and meat in unlimited quantities, no sauces, salad dressings, sugar, canned goods, or alcohol.
During the diet, you need to drink a lot of water, there should be three main meals and light snacks between them, the last one - 3 hours before bedtime, you can not replace some products with others, the wording "vegetables" means any of the permitted ones, and "citrus" - grapefruit, orange or pomelo. Dishes are prepared in a dietary way: by boiling, steaming or baking. "Maggi" is designed for a month - the optimal period for achieving good results for weight loss, but the first week is very important, because despite the large list of products, you can not call it full.
Detailed menu for the first week of the Maggi diet
To present a detailed menu for the first week of the Maggi diet, it is necessary to dwell on the products that will appear in it. The main ones are eggs and cottage cheese. Of the vegetables, zucchini, broccoli, cauliflower, green beans, cucumbers, tomatoes are preferable. Potatoes are strictly prohibited. Lean meat is used, pork and lamb are absent. Of the bakery products, dried rye bread and crispbread are allowed. There is a place in the diet for lean fish, a small amount of hard cheese, coffee and tea without sugar, greens from the garden, seasonings, as well as an extensive list of fruits, except for bananas, dates, grapes, mango. Each morning begins with a breakfast of two eggs or 200 g of cottage cheese (depending on the selected main product) and one citrus fruit. And here is the menu for other meals:
Day of the week |
Dinner |
Dinner |
Monday |
Apples |
Boiled chicken, arugula |
Tuesday |
Chicken fillet |
2 eggs (cottage cheese), cucumber and tomato salad, slice of bread, grapefruit |
Wednesday |
A piece of low-fat cheese, boiled green beans, bread |
Baked lean pork, lettuce leaves |
Thursday |
Pears |
Beef, lettuce, other greens |
Friday |
Diet omelette of 2 eggs (cottage cheese), cauliflower |
Orange, steamed fish fillet, salad |
Saturday |
Cherries |
Turkey meat, arugula, basil |
Sunday |
A piece of chicken with skin removed, broccoli, asparagus boiled |
Vegetable stew of peppers, zucchini, cabbage, tomatoes, onions, a little carrot |
Recipes
All dishes made from meat, fish, and vegetables are prepared in the same way, regardless of what is the main ingredient of the diet:
- salt and pepper the meat, put it in a saucepan, chop the tomato, onion, carrot, add a small amount of water, and simmer;
- remove the skin from the chicken thigh, season with spices, pour kefir over it, wrap in foil and bake in the oven;
- Bake the peppers and eggplants in the oven, peel, chop, combine with cucumbers and tomatoes, pour a dressing of chopped herbs, soy sauce, lemon juice, a little honey;
- Sprinkle the fish fillet with lemon juice, put onion and tomato rings on it, cover with foil, and bake.
With the egg option (with a full course of the diet, boiled eggs can become boring), you can resort to culinary improvisations with them:
- break 2 pieces, cut dill, parsley, tomato into small cubes, pour into a ziplock bag, shake well, close and put in boiling water for 7 minutes:
- cut the boiled eggs in half, remove the yolk, grind it with herbs, salt, add a little kefir, return the mixture to the whites;
In the curd version, various inventions are also possible:
- cut apricots, kiwi, pears, add to the grated cottage cheese, pour over low-fat yogurt;
- Combine cottage cheese with whipped egg white, finely chop pear and apple, mix. Place in muffin tins, bake.