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

I HAVE BREAKFAST EVERYDAY: Eat half a grapefruit, cantaloupe, or whatever fruit is in season (whichever is least expensive), and a slice of protein bread with no spread.

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 mixed fruit. For dinner, have a hearty grilled burger, sprouts or broccoli, cabbage, and a salad of cucumbers, radishes, celery, and lettuce.

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

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

FRIDAY: Eat a spinach pie and applesauce that has no sugar additives for lunch. For dinner you can prepare fish that you can grill, bake, sauté or poach, with a mixed 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, Hawaiian roast chicken or marinated turkey parts to eat with cooked cabbage, tomato or carrots. Dinner would consist of a choice of grilled round steak, boneless ham, liver and onions, lean roast beef or baby bell pepper, cooked tomatoes and Brussels sprouts.