The diet uses a list of 100 permitted foods from which you can eat as much as you want - this is made up of 72 pure proteins (fish, meat, seafood, vegetable proteins and fat-free dairy products) and 28 vegetables.
Typical Dukan diet meal plan
Breakfast:- Coffee or tea (with skimmed milk and sweetener if desired),
- two small non-fat yoghurts or 225g non-fat cottage cheese,
- and one slice turkey, chicken or low-fat ham, or one boiled egg.
Snack: one small non-fat yogurt or 115g of non-fat cottage cheese.
Lunch:
Crab sticks, chicken leg, poached salmon fillets or pepper steak with egg custard for pudding.
Snack: one non-fat yoghurt and a slice of turkey.
Dinner:
- Prawns sauteed in herbs and tandoori chicken escalopes or moules mariniere and boiled beef and no-sugar vanilla creme.
- Plus an oatbran pancake.
see an example of Dukan Day 1 meal plan
Recipe for success: Salmon fillets can be served for lunch (right), while oatbran pancakes are a concession to carbs
This is the big safe list, you can eat anything on this list as much as you want. Just remember to alternate Pure Protein days and Protein & Vegetable days.
68 Pure Proteins: Starting on the Attack phase
Meat and offal
- Beef steak
- Fillet of beef
- Sirloin steak
- Roast beef
- Rump steak
- Tongue
- Bresaola, air-dried/wind-dried beef
- Veal escalope
- Veal chop
- Kidney
- Calf's liver
- Pre-cooked ham slices (without any fat or rind)
- Pre-cooked chicken and turkey slices (without any fat or rind)
- Fat-reduced bacon
- Game (venison, pheasant, partridge, hare, grouse)
- Rabbit/hare
Fish
- Arctic char
- Bass
- Catfish
- Cod
- Crab/ocean sticks (surimi)
- Dab/lemon sole
- Dover sole
- Flounder
- Grey mullet
- Grouper
- Haddock
- Hake
- Halibut
- Herring
- Mackerel
- Mahi Mahi
- Monkfish
- Orange roughy
- Perch
- Plaice
- Pollock/Coley
- Rainbow trout/salmon trout
- Red mullet
- Red snapper
- Salmon / Smoked salmon
- Sardines, fresh or canned in water
- Sea bass
- Sea bream
- Skate
- Sole
- Surimi
- Trout
- Swordfish 39
- Tilapia
- Tuna, fresh or canned in water
- Turbot
- Whiting
- Fish roe (cod, salmon, herring)
Seafood
- Calamari/squid
- Clams
- Cockles
- Crab
- Crawfish/crayfish
- Dublin Bay prawns
- Lobster
- Mediterranean prawn/gambas
- Mussels
- Oysters
- Prawns
- Scallops
- Shrimp
- Whelks
Poultry
- Chicken
- Poussin
- Chicken liver
- Guinea fowl
- Ostrich
- Pigeon
- Quail
- Turkey
Eggs
- Hen's eggs
- Quail's eggs
- Non-fat cottage cheese
- Non-fat fromage frais
- Non-fat,Greek yoghurt
- Non-fat quark/non-fat yoghurt (plain or flavoured with aspartame)
- Skimmed milk
Vegetable Proteins
- Tofu
32 vegetables: starting from the Cruise phase
- Artichoke
- Asparagus
- Bean sprouts
- Beet
- Broccoli/purple sprouting broccoli
- Cabbage: white/red/Savoy/cauliflower/Chinese leaves/kohlrabi/kale/Brussels sprout (all types of cabbage)
- Carrot
- Celery/celeriac
- Chicory
- Cucumber
- Eggplant (aubergine)
- Endive
- Fennel
- Green beans/string beans/mangetout
- Kale
- Lettuce, arugula, radicchio
- Mushrooms
- Okra
- Onions, leeks, shallots
- Palm hearts
- Peppers (sweet)
- Pumpkin/marrow/squash
- Radish
- Rhubarb
- Salad leaves: all types of lettuce/rocket/watercress/alfalfa/curly endive/sorrel
- Soya beans
- Spinach
- Swede
- Swiss chard
- Tomatoes
- Turnip
- Zucchini (courgette)