A Cheap Alternative Scarsdale Diet: Inexpensive Diet Plans

Listed below are recipes that can be used as an alternative to the Scarsdale diet. Use inexpensive grocery foods that can be light on your budget.

I HAVE BREAKFAST EVERYDAY: Eat half a grapefruit, cantaloupe, or whatever fruit is in season, whichever is less expensive, and a slice of plain protein bread.

MONDAY: For lunch, make a chef’s salad, chicken broth, and a slice of protein toast. For dinner, grill or bake fresh or frozen fish. Eat with salad.

TUESDAY: For lunch, make a fruit salad with any fruit mix. For dinner, have a hearty grilled burger, sprouts or broccoli, cabbage, and a salad of cucumbers, radishes, celery, and lettuce.

WEDNESDAY: Have tuna or salmon salad with vinegar and lemon dressing over lettuce and melon or grapefruit. For dinner, you can choose between braised lamb stew or braised leg of lamb. Enjoy it with sauerkraut and a salad of tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers, and celery.

THURSDAY: Eat two eggs that can be cooked in any style of your choice, low-fat cottage cheese or casserole cheese, zucchini, and a slice of protein toast. For dinner, you can have chicken that can be broiled, boiled, and broiled.

FRIDAY: Have a spinach cake and applesauce that has no sugar additives for lunch. For dinner you can prepare fish that you can grill, bake, and sauté or poach, with a combination of salad and a slice of toasted protein bread.

SATURDAY: Make a fruit salad with lettuce for lunch. For dinner, roasted, broiled or boiled chicken, a salad of lettuce and tomatoes, and a watermelon or cantaloupe may be the best alternative to those prescribed by the Scarsdale diet.

SUNDAY: Choose from hot or cold turkey, roasted Hawaiian chicken, or marinated parts of turkey to eat with cooked cabbage, tomato, or carrots. Dinner would consist of a choice between grilled steak, boneless ham, liver and onions, lean roast beef or softened pepper steak, cooked tomatoes and Brussels sprouts.