Weekly Diet Meal Plan - Day 5

We've come to Day 5 of the weekly diet meal plan!

Today we have some more easy healthy recipes to lose weight.

We'll be cooking lamb with cabbage (if you don't know how to cook lamb, don't worry since this is really a very easy lamb recipe).

There is also an easy vegetable soup recipe for dinner.

Enjoy!

Breakfast

• sandwich made of whole grain bread, three slices of lean ham and three slices of goat cheese or sheep's milk cheese
  
• 6 olives
  
• coffee or tea without sugar

Healthy breakfast menu

Snack

• ½ cup lowfat plain yogurt
  
• 4 almonds

Lunch

• Lamb with cabbage

Weekly diet meal plan - Day 5
Healthy lunch ideas

Lamb with Cabbage Recipe

Serves 2

You need:

• 1 kg/2.2 lb lamb, cut into large pieces
  
• 1 head of cabbage, coarsely chopped
  
• 4 potatoes, diced
  
• 4 carrots, diced
  
• 1 onion, diced
  
• 1 tomato, diced
  
• 3 garlic cloves, minced
  
• 15 g/0.5 oz celery root, grated
  
• 1 parsley root, grated
  
• 1 stalk of celery, finely chopped
  
• 1 small bunch parsley, finely chopped
  
• water to cover vegetables
  

Instructions:

Put the lamb into a large pot and add onions, carrots, parsley and celery root, parsley and celery leaf, tomatoes and garlic.

Season with salt and add water to cover the vegetables and meat.

Cook for about ½ hour, then add the potatoes and cabbage and cook for another 20 minutes, or until vegetables are tender.

Fruit

• 1 pear
• 4 almonds
  

Dinner

• vegetable soup (1-2 soup plates)
• 2 tbsp cottage cheese
• 2 whole wheat crackers

Easy dinner recipe

Easy Vegetable Soup Recipe

Serves 2

You need:

• 3 carrots, coarsely chopped
  
• 2 potatoes, cubed
  
• 10 g/0.4 oz celery root, coarsely chopped
  
• 1 parsley root, coarsely chopped
  
• 1 parsley leaf
  
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
  
• 3 tbsp olive oil
  
• water to cover the vegetables
  

Instructions:

Chop the vegetables and add them to the pot.

Add water to cover the vegetables and olive oil. Cover and cook for about 20 minutes or until the carrots and potatoes have softened.

Allow to cool a little and blend with a hand blender (or a food processor). Season to taste.

Snack (before going to bed)

• ½ cup lowfat plain yogurt
  
• 4 almonds

Proceed to Day 6

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