800 Calorie Diet Menu 1
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Low FAT diets do not work
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BREAKFAST
1/2 grapefruit
1/2 cup cereal
1/2 toast - no butter
Coffee
1 glass skim milk
LUNCH
Clear consomme - no fat
Rolled Filet of Sole (*)
Broccoli
1 glass skim milk or buttermilk
Tea or coffee - no sugar - no cream
3/4 cup strawberries
(*) Rolled Filet of Sole: 2lbs. rolled filet of sole, 1/2 cup cream of mushroom soup, 1/4 cup skim milk, 1 tablespoon grated onion, 1 teaspoon chopped parsley, 2 tablespoons sherry. Make fish into roll. Bake in casserole with all other ingredients except sherry. Bake for approximately 20 minutes at 300 degrees. Add sherry and serve (3 oz. serving = 185 calories)
DINNER
Small broiled tenderloin, 3 oz. - no fat
Fresh asparagus with lemon juice
1/2 cup carrots
Lettuce hearts with lemon juice
1/2 cantaloupe
Tea or coffee - no sugar - no cream
800 Calorie Diet Menu 2
BREAKFAST
Small glass orange juice
1/2 slice whole wheat toast
2 tablespoons cottage cheese
Black coffee, 1 glass skim milk
LUNCH
Tomato juice cocktail, with 2 crackers
Corned beef hash (*), string beans, pickled beet salad
Dietetic pears, 2 halves
Tea or coffee, 1 glass skim milk
(*) Corned beef hash: 2 oz. canned corn beef, 1 small onion, 2 tablespoons potato, 1/2 cup consomme. Grind all ingredients and thoroughly heat in oven (Calories: 160)
DINNER
1/2 baked breast of chicken (2 oz)
Baked banana squash
Fresh spinach with lemon
Tomato salad with dietetic dressing
D-Zerta with 1/2 sliced banana
Tea or coffee - no cream
Skim milk or buttermilk - no sugar
800 Calorie Diet Menu 3
BREAKFAST
Small glass unsweetened pineapple juice
Baked French toast (*) with 1 slice bread, 2 egg whites
Black coffee
1 glass skim milk
(*) Baked French Toast: 1 slice white bread with crust cut off, 2 egg whites, 1/4 cup skimmed milk, 1 teaspoon cinnamon and sugar. Beat egg whites, add milk, and dip bread in mixture. Bake in moderate oven until light brown. Serve with sugar and cinnamon mixture. (105 calories)
LUNCH
Clear chicken consomme—no fat
2 oz. or 1/4 can dietetic tuna fish on bed of lettuce with carrot stick — dill pickle — with dietetic dressing with quartered tomato
Small baked apple — no sugar
Tea or black coffee
DINNER Broiled lamb chop — trim off all fat
1/2 cup broccoli
1/2 cup carrots
Cole slaw with dietetic dressing
3 small or 2 large fresh apricots
Tea or black coffee — 1 glass skim milk
800 Calorie Diet Menu 4
BREAKFAST
3 stewed primes — no sugar
3/4 cup Pep or Cornflakes
1 glass skim milk
Coffee — no cream, no sugar
LUNCH
2 hot dogs Sauerkraut
1/4 cup Fordhook limas
Grapefruit and orange salad
Junket made with skim milk
Tea or coffee
DINNER
Broiled beef patty small (3 oz)
String beat
Stewed tomatoes
Celery hearts
Watermelon balls, 3/4 cup
Tea or coffee
800 Calorie Diet Menu 5
BREAKFAST
Large glass of juice
1/2 cup Ralstons
1 glass skim milk
Coffee
LUNCH
Bouillon
Shrimp salad: 6 shrimp, 1/4 cup celery, 3 egg whites, dietetic dressing
Carrot sticks
Royal Ann cherries
Tea or coffee
1 glass skim milk or buttermilk
DINNER
Hawaiian beef steak (*)
Shredded zuccini
Whole baby beets
Tossed green salad with dietetic dressing
1/2 cup sliced fresh pineapple
Tea or coffee
(*) Hawaiian Beef Steak: 2 oz. round steak, pepper and salt to taste, ground ginger to taste, 1 small onion, 1/4 cup pineapple, 1/2 cup tomato juice. Saute onion in tomato juice; add ginger and seasoning. Add steak and bake with pineapple in covered dish until tender. (Approximately 258 calories)
800 Calorie Diet Menu 6
BREAKFAST
1/2 cup fresh raspberries or dietetic canned
1 oz. or 1/2 thin slice ham broiled
1/2 toasted roll
1 teaspoon jam
Coffee — no cream
1 glass skim milk
LUNCH
Sauteed chicken liver (*)
Cauliflower with lemon
Fresh spinach
Tomato salad
Dietetic plums (3)
Tea or coffee
1 glass skim milk
(*) Saute with consomme.
DINNER
Baked fresh salmon (small slice—3 oz.)
Stewed celery
Fresh asparagus
Tossed green salad with dietetic dressing
Sliced orange
Tea or coffee
800 Calorie Diet Menu 7
BREAKFAST
1/2 sliced banana
2 small shredded wheat
1 glass skim milk
Coffee
LUNCH
Beef stew (2 oz. beef) with small onion, carrot, celery
Pickled beet salad
1/2 cup sherbet
Tea or coffee
DINNER
Clear chicken consomme
Fresh fruit platter: sliced fresh pineapple, 1/2 cup fresh strawberries, 1/2 sliced orange, 1/2 sliced peach
4 tablespoons cottage cheese
Tea or coffee
1 double Rye Krisp
