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Ideal diet: menu options for a week
Last reviewed: 04.07.2025

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The ideal diet is a weight loss system in which you can model your favorite foods in the menu and lose weight at the same time. We will offer you options for the ideal menu for the whole week.
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Diet Menu: Monday
Breakfast
Oatmeal or muesli with raisins, dried apricots and other dried fruits with nuts. You can wash down all this healthy dish with 250 g of zero-fat kefir.
Servings during the day - kefir - 2, muesli - 1
Dinner
Soup with vegetable broth, fish, boiled or baked in the oven, boiled or steamed rice, vegetable salad and a piece of toasted bread, unsweetened cookies (2 pieces). You can wash it down with unsweetened tea.
Afternoon snack
1 apple – 1 serving
Dinner
Cheese pancakes made from zero-fat cottage cheese, 1 teaspoon raspberry jam, 1 tangerine, 1 cup cocoa
Servings: cheesecakes – 2, raspberry jam – 1, tangerine – 1, cocoa – 1.
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Diet Menu: Tuesday
Breakfast
200 g oatmeal, 1 glass of coffee without sugar, but with milk or cream
Servings: porridge - 2, coffee - 1
Dinner
200 g fish broth or soup, 200 g boiled chicken meat, vegetable salad. You can wash it all down with tea without sugar, but with honey.
Servings: soup - 2, meat - 1, salad - 2, tea - 1
Afternoon snack
1 orange (1 serving)
Dinner
Boiled or baked fish (150 g), boiled potatoes in their skins – 3 pieces, you can wash it all down with 1 glass of apple juice
Servings: fish – 2, potatoes – 1, juice – 1.
Diet Menu: Wednesday
Breakfast
150 g medium-fat yogurt, 1 cup of coffee (with milk if desired)
Servings: yogurt – 2, coffee – 1.
Dinner
Tomato puree soup (200 g), boiled rice with vegetable garnish, boiled piece of beef, salad with seafood and tomatoes, tea without sugar, but with jam (1 teaspoon)
Servings: soup - 2, rice porridge - 1, beef - 1, salad - 2, tea - 1
Afternoon snack
½ grapefruit (great for burning fat)
Dinner
Vegetable cabbage rolls with rice (200 g), cabbage stewed with tomato (200 g), 1 medium apple, preferably green, medium-fat fermented baked milk (250 g)
Servings: cabbage rolls – 2, cabbage – 2, fermented baked milk – 1
Diet Menu: Thursday
Breakfast
200 g of cottage cheese with candied fruits and a cup of black coffee without milk and sugar. You can have 1 raisin muffin with your coffee
Servings: cottage cheese - 1.5, coffee - 1
Dinner
200 g of rassolnik, 200 g of rabbit meat stewed with garlic and grapes, a few slices of zucchini, salad (contains bell pepper, cheese, a couple of cloves of garlic), marmalade (100 g) and unsweetened tea
Servings: soup - 2, rabbit meat - 2, zucchini - 1, salad - 1, tea - 1, marmalade - 1
Afternoon snack
2 tangerines (2 servings)
Dinner
Cabbage casserole with cheese, 150 g yogurt with berries, 1 pear.
Servings: cabbage casserole - 2, yogurt - 1, pear - 1
Diet Menu: Friday
Breakfast
Buckwheat porridge cooked in zero-fat milk – 200 g, 1 cup of coffee with milk
Servings: porridge - 1.5, coffee - 1
Dinner
Cabbage soup with fresh cabbage, 2 pieces of fried pollock, ragout of eggplant, tomatoes and peppers (200 g), salad of fresh cucumbers, green onions and 1 boiled egg, chopped into the salad
Servings: cabbage soup - 2, fish - 1, salad - 1, stew - 2
Afternoon snack
1 bunch of grapes
Dinner
200 g of beef liver stewed in water with the addition of stewed green beans, 1 orange, 1 glass of zero-fat kefir
Servings: liver – 1, green beans – 2, kefir – 2, orange – 1.
Diet Menu: Saturday
Breakfast
Medium-fat yogurt with raw apples – 200 g, unsweetened cookies (crackers), 1 cup of coffee
Servings: yogurt - 2, apples - 2, coffee - 1, crackers - 1
Dinner
Soup cooked in chicken broth, 200 g cod boiled without spices, rice groats cooked in water, vegetable salad with feta cheese and herbs (200 g)
Servings: soup - 1.5, fish - 2, rice - 2, salad - 2
Afternoon snack
1 pineapple
Servings - 2
Dinner
Omelette of 3 eggs with tomato pieces and ham. You can wash it down with sour milk
Servings: omelette – 1, yogurt – 1
Diet Menu: Sunday
Breakfast
200 g of millet porridge cooked in zero-fat milk, 1 apple, 2 bars of extra-dark chocolate, a cup of coffee
Servings: porridge – 1.5, apple – 1, chocolate – 1, coffee – 1.
Dinner
Chicken broth soup with chicken and meatballs, 200 g fried carp, vegetable salad
Servings: soup - 2, carp - 2, vegetables - 2
Afternoon snack
2 bananas
Dinner
Beans stewed with tomatoes – 200 g, cake – 150 g, 1 glass of wine (100 g)
Servings: beans - 1.5, cake - 1, wine - 1
This diet will give you the opportunity to get all the necessary fats, proteins and minerals in the menu and will ensure effective weight loss. In just 1 week, if you do not deviate from the menu, you will see the result - weight loss of at least 5 kg.