- bread, bran, rye bread, pita bread, crisp bread (without fats), high fibre breakfast cereals, muesli, popcorn (without butter)*

- plain pasta (e.g., spaghetti, fusilli, rigatoni, penne), rice, polenta, couscous*

- pizza with anchovies, mushrooms*

- consommé, vegetable soups, minestrone

- potatoes*

- low-fat meat (fat and/or skin removed): veal, lamb, pork, goat, horse, chicken, turkey, rabbit, venison, pheasant, partridge, guinea-fowl, snail, pigeon, quail, frog, ostrich (2 - 3 times per week)

- ham, speck (fat removed) (2 - 3 times per week)

- fish: anchovies, bass, bogue (sea bream), cat fish, cod, coregone, dentex, dog fish, dory, grey mullet, hake, halibut, herring, horse mackerel, lattarini, lombus, mackerel, meager (croaker), mullet, pike, red bream, saddled bream, salema (strepie), salmon, sardines, scorpion fish, skate, sole, striped bream, sturgeon, tinca, trout, two-banded bream, vendace**

- shellfish: crab, lobster, shrimp**

- molluscs: cuttlefish, hen clams, mussels, octopus, oyster, squid**

- eggs (2 - 3 per week, preferably boiled or poached)

- low-fat milk, soy milk, low-fat yoghurt (daily)

- low-fat cheeses (e.g., cottage cheese, quark, cow-ricotta) (1 - 2 times per week)

- legumes: beans, broad beans, chickpeas, green beans, lentils, peas (daily)

- all soy products (daily)

- all vegetables cooked, in a salad or as crudités (daily)

- all fresh fruits (daily)

- nuts: almonds, hazelnuts, peanuts, pistachio, walnuts***

- jam, marmalade***

- sorbet, jelly, meringue, puddings based on skimmed milk****

- vegetable oils (mainly olive oil, canola oil and peanut oil)***

- very low-fat (20%) margarine***

- water, unsweetened fruit juices, low-calorie drinks

- coffee, tea (no more than 3 cups/day; to sugar use acesulfame K, aspartame, cyclamate or saccharine)

- wine, beer (preferably with meals and no more than 1 - 2 glasses/day)