Cabbage is one of the most low-calorie and at the same time very useful vegetables. It is not surprising that cabbage diet for weight loss is known for a long time. Thanks mainly to the vegetable ration, a sufficient number of vitamins and minerals, cabbage diet occupies one of the leading places in the ranking of low-calorie diets.
Ingredients of cabbage diet products for weight loss for 5 days
Lasting for 5 days on a diet of cabbage - the test is not easy. However, in the diet, despite the name, not only one cabbage is included, the use of such products is allowed:
- cabbage of various varieties - white, red, kohlrabi, Beijing, color, Brussels;
- sauerkraut;
- low-fat meat and fish;
- vegetables and fruits, excluding potatoes, bananas and grapes ;
- chicken and quail eggs;
- olive oil;
- skimmed milk products - kefir, fermented baked milk, unsweetened yoghurt.
On such a composition of products, you can diversify the menu of cabbage diets and without special difficulties hold out for 5-10 days. The effect of diet is achieved by a strict restriction in the diet of fats and light carbohydrates. Categorically excluded from the cabbage diet menu:
- sugar and all products that contain it;
- potatoes;
- carbonated and alcoholic drinks;
- flour products.
An approximate menu of cabbage diet can be represented as follows:
- Breakfast . Green, black tea and black coffee without sugar.
- Lunch . Salad of fresh cabbage with carrots and 1 teaspoon of olive oil. Portion (200 g) of boiled or steam meat - beef or chicken breast.
- Dinner . Salad from sauerkraut. To the salad, you can add 1 boiled quail egg or half a chicken egg. And also you can eat any fruit, for example, an apple or a pear.
- 2 hours before bedtime, you can drink 1 cup of low-fat kefir or unsweetened yogurt.
Recipes of dishes from white cabbage for weight loss are quite diverse.
Stewed cabbage with rice or buckwheat
Ingredients:
- white cabbage - 500-700 g;
- carrots - 1 piece;
- onion - 1 pc .;
- rice with round-grained or buckwheat groats - 100 g;
- tomato paste - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- salt and seasonings - to taste.
Preparation
Onions and carrots should be cleaned and finely chopped. In the pan, pour the vegetable oil and fry the onions with carrots until half cooked. Cut cabbage and add to the rest of the vegetables in a frying pan, fry the vegetables on high heat for 3-5 minutes. Do not forget to stir during frying. In the vegetables add tomato paste, which can be replaced by half a glass of tomato juice. Mix thoroughly again.
Rice or buckwheat rinse well, and add to the vegetables, then mix thoroughly. Add salt to taste and favorite spices. Add a little water, simmer on low heat for 20-25 minutes. Sometimes cabbage should be stirred and if necessary add water. Ready dish can be sprinkled with any herbs.
Cabbage, baked with cheese
Ingredients:
- cabbage - 1 kg;
- vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- onion - 1 pc .;
- flour - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- milk - 2 cups;
- grated non-fat cheese - 0.75 cup;
- bread crumbs - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- salt, nutmeg, spices - to taste.
Preparation
Cut the cabbage, lightly crumple your hands, put it in a cauldron and fill it with water so that the water covers its surface. Boil the cabbage for 10 minutes. Cooked cabbage to throw in a colander, so that the glass water. In the meantime, you can do the preparation of refueling. The onions must be cut into cubes. In the pan, pour 2 tbsp. spoon the butter, add the chopped onion, flour, salt, nutmeg and favorite spices, mix everything thoroughly. Then pour in a thin trickle of milk and stirring constantly, bring the mixture to a boil. Remove the frying pan from the heat and add grated cheese, leaving a little for sprinkling. Mix everything with cabbage and put on a baking tray with high edges. Sprinkle with the remaining grated cheese. Put the baking tray in the oven and bake it on high heat for 15 minutes until golden brown.
Kefir cabbage diet is another way of losing weight on cabbage. When it is observed, meat and fish are excluded, but whole grain cereal, oatmeal and buckwheat dishes are added.
Recipes kefir and cabbage diet suggest a wide range of vegetables in a variety of cooking - baked, stewed, fried, boiled and steam. It is recommended for breakfast to use smoothies based on various cabbage varieties with various ingredients - zucchini, carrots, green apple, spinach and unsweetened yoghurt.