Benedetta Rossi, the cook and food blogger known for her website ” Homemade by Benedetta ” is now a local star, perhaps one of the best in traditional Italian cuisine.
In addition to online, we often see her on TV and there are really many people who follow her recipes. We can also follow Benedetta Rossi on youtube and on fb or instagram.

Some of the ones that I find most shared are definitely not recipes for every day: pies, rustic pizzas, fried and timbales are ideas that we can copy from Benedetta only once or twice a week if we want to keep the weight under control.

Yet there are many homemade recipes from Benedetta that we can make every day for a light menu. It is therefore up to us to choose the right ones. There are so many!

In this article I propose some of them, from breakfast to dinner, for a light summer menu , which with two fruit snacks, provides us with no more than 1400-1500 calories per day and is perfect for women who want to lose some weight. in a week. Maybe because they went too far at the table, they were on vacation or something else.

Taste at the table, a bit of the sea, an hour’s walk a day , and thanks to the talented Benedetta Rossi and her blog we can learn an important lesson: that weight loss diet does not mean sacrificed and dull diet. You just need to know how to choose among the thousands of recipes she has. The photos in the article are taken from her site.

Homemade by Benedetta: recipes for a light summer menu

Breakfast from Monday to Sunday.

I give you three recipes (with variations) that I have selected for you from the Homemade by Benedetta website. You can choose a fixed one for breakfast or vary.

Lunch and dinner are interchangeable.
You can use the lunch options for dinner and vice versa.
The recipes for lunch and dinner are for about 4 people or portions.

So this menu that I propose is suitable for the family, but if you are a couple you can freeze some dishes to repeat the menu the following week, and halve the doses for what cannot be frozen, such as salads or first courses.

Frozen dishes are marked with an asterisk.

• Option one . One eighth slice of soft orange roll + unsweetened coffee or tea.
• 2. A one-sixth slice of Haupia lactose-free vegetable panna cotta or a sugar-free mini-berry cheesecake. + a coffee without sugar.
• 3. A portion equal to one sixth of gluten-free yogurt cake or one eighth of lemon and ricotta cake + to drink 100 ml skimmed or vegetable milk, coffee or tea, stevia or sweetener.

Snack: 200 grams of melon or a 200 gram peach

Lunch.

• Monday.

  A serving of seafood salad (use a tablespoon of oil for the whole recipe) or gluten-free tuna salad (use natural tuna and a tablespoon of oil in all) + a fruit of your choice or 3 corn cakes.

• Tuesday.

  100 grams of ricotta or 150 grams of cottage cheese + a portion of caramelized baked tomatoes * (use a tablespoon of oil in all) + 25 grams of wholemeal toast or 2 apricots at the end of the meal.

• Wednesday.

  A portion of cold couscous with zucchini and prawns (use a tablespoon of oil for the whole recipe!).
  

  A slice of fresh pineapple at the end of a meal or a small kiwi.

• Thursday.

  A serving of Caesar Salad (replace the chicken legs with 500 grams of chicken breast and use 20 ml of oil instead of 40) + a small banana at the end of the meal (100-120 grams). As an alternative to Caesar salad, Greek chicken salad .

• Friday .

  Panzanella with tuna , one serving (for 4 servings use 130 grams of wholemeal bread, natural tuna, 2 tablespoons of oil in all)

• Saturday.

  3 baked chicken meatballs * + a portion of champignon mushroom and rocket salad (use 2 tablespoons of oil instead of 4), a peach snuffbox.

• Sunday.

  A portion of cold pasta all’ortolana ( a quarter of the recipe) keeping on 2 tablespoons of oil for the entire recipe. Second course with 60 grams of bresaola seasoned with lemon juice, a handful of rocket, a teaspoon of oil, salt and pepper. At the end of the meal with a sugar-free lemon mousse.