Mediterranean Diet
Kaley Honeycutt & Henry Hall
What is the Mediterranean Diet?
The Mediterranean diet is a diet consisting of mostly fruits, vegetables, and grains. Most of the protein comes from fish and other seafood. With some poultry, eggs, and cheese. Not a lot of meats or sweets.
Breakfast
For breakfast is and egg sandwich with, one scrambled egg, 1 tsp butter, and 2 slices of whole grain toast. On you sandwich you can have, tomato and avocado slices.
Morning Snack
A good snack option would be a 12-oz skim latte and a clementine.
Lunch
For lunch you could have a Mediterranean plate. It consists of whole wheat pita bread, 1-oz of feta cheese, a cup of grape tomatoes, 6 olives, 1/4 cup of hummus, 1 cup of raw spinach drizzled with a tsp of olive oil and lemon juice.
Afternoon Snack
For a snack it would be good to have 18 baked tortilla chips and 1/4 cup of guacamole.
Dinner
For dinner you could have a delicious fish taco. It has halibut, olive oil, green cabbage, onion, chopped cucumber, cilantro, and lime juice.
Overview
This diet is 52% fat, 31% carbs, and 16% protein. It has high fat and low protein. This diet has 1100.7 total grams of fat, 655.6g carbs, and 357.2g of protein. This would be a good diet for someone who needed a lot of energy.