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Ketogenic Diet Therapy - Typical Meal

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Here is a sample meal plan which will give you a general idea of what kind of foods are on the diet. Meal plan serves small amounts of fruits or vegetables (carbohydrates) and meat, fish, or chicken (protein) with a lot of fat such as cream, butter, eggs, or mayonnaise. No sugar is given in the diet.

Breakfast: Scrambled eggs with butter, diluted cream, and orange juice.

Lunch: Spaghetti squash with butter and Parmesan cheese, lettuce leaf with mayonnaise, and orange diet soda mixed with whipped cream.

Dinner: Hot dog slices with sugar free ketchup, asparagus with butter, chopped lettuce with mayonnaise, and sugar free vanilla cream Popsicle.

The exact amounts of food need to be worked out for each patient by the dietitian. Each portion of food must be very carefully prepared using a gram scale which will need to be purchased to weigh items exactly. Even a tiny mistake in weighing or measuring food can break the diet effect and lead to a seizure.