The Mayo Clinic Diet
meal plans

You'll love our 8 delicious meal plans designed to make weight loss simple and tasty.

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8 delicious weight loss meal plans


The Mayo Clinic Diet’s meal plans for weight loss rank among our most-loved features: swap any dish to suit your tastes, save your favorites for quick access, and get an auto-generated grocery list with every menu so weekly planning stays effortless.

Simple

Our most popular menu with fuss-free meals that use ready-prepped ingredients to save time. (Available as gluten-free.)

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Heart Smart Superfoods

We've improved the Mediterranean diet with this new anti-inflammatory, DASH-aligned meal plan packed with super cardio-protective foods.

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The "Original"

A DASH-aligned meal plan following the eating plan from The Mayo Clinic Diet, Third Edition book. (Available as gluten-free.)

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Mediterranean

A plant-based meal plan featuring fish, nuts, legumes and unlimited vegetables and fruits. It is a great choice for members focused on heart health. (Available as gluten-free.)

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Higher Protein

This tasty meal plan distributes protein evenly across each meal of the day. Balancing protein helps control appetite and curb cravings.

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Healthy Keto

A high-fat, low-carb diet which delivers healthy fats from extra virgin olive oil, avocado, nuts and seeds, and keeps daily net carbs to around 50 grams.

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Vegetarian

A meat-free, plant-packed meal plan that delivers hunger-busting protein from beans, soy, eggs and dairy. Suitable for lacto-ovo vegetarians.

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Meal plan for GLP-1s

A higher protein, lower volume version of our most popular meal plan, designed for members using GLP-1s.

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Which meal plan is right for you?

Easy-to-use meal plan tools

Easy-to-use meal plan tools

The Mayo Clinic Diet digital meal plan is packed with features to help make healthy eating as easy as possible. You can: 

  • Download a printable PDF of your weekly meal plan
  • Swap meals you don't like for ones you do
  • Favorite meals
  • Add meals to the Food & Exercise tracker
  • View the food groups and nutrition facts for each meal
  • Preview the next week's meal plan
  • Access a grocery list for each meal plan
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Easy-to-use meal plan tools

Compare Mayo Clinic Diet meal plans for weight loss

Meal plan Core focus Best for
Simple

Busy schedules

Ready-prepped ingredients, 15-min meals, gluten-free option.

Healthy Keto Low-carb lovers ~50 g net carbs, heart-healthy fats (olive oil, avocado).
Mediterranean Heart health focus Fish, nuts, legumes, extra-virgin olive oil.
Heart Smart Superfoods Cholesterol / blood-pressure concerns DASH-aligned, anti-inflammatory, cardio-protective foods.
Vegetarian Plant-forward eaters Lacto-ovo; protein from beans, soy, eggs, dairy.
Higher Protein Appetite control & muscle support Even protein spread across meals.
The "Original" Classic Mayo Clinic Diet approach Based on the bestselling Mayo Clinic Diet book.
GLP-1 Support Members on weight-loss medications Higher protein, lower-volume portions.

Frequently asked questions

Yes, all of our meal plans are meant to be sustained in any lifestyle at any budget. 

No, the Mayo Clinic Diet is about making sure you’re getting enough of the foods that are right for you. We are not focused on calorie counting. 

If you have an allergy or intolerance you have the ability to swap meals to suit your personal needs.

Yes, all of the Mayo Clinic Diet meal plans come with a weekly grocery list that you can customize to cater for your family and needs.

We find our families love the New Mayo Clinic Diet meal plans, and most often our families are happy to join in on the healthy meals.

The platform lets you choose (and freely switch between) eight delicious meal plans.

Highlights

Meal plan

Ideal for

Quick snapshot

Simple

Busy schedules

Ready-prepped ingredients, 15-minute meals, gluten-free option

Healthy Keto

Low-carb lovers

~50 g net carbs, heart-healthy fats such as olive oil and avocado

Vegetarian

Plant-forward eaters

Lacto-ovo; protein via beans, soy, eggs, and dairy

Mediterranean

Heart health

Emphasizes fish, nuts, legumes, extra-virgin olive oil

Higher Protein

Appetite control & muscle support

Even protein distribution at each meal

Heart Smart Superfoods

Cholesterol / blood-pressure concerns

DASH-aligned, anti-inflammatory, cardio-protective foods

The “Original”

Classic Mayo approach

Based on the best-selling Mayo Clinic Diet book

GLP-1 Support

Members using weight-loss medications

Higher protein, lower-volume portions

Every meal plan includes a swap tool and grocery list, so accommodating dietary needs is as simple as one click.

Next step: Explore all meal plans or take a free Diet Score assessment .