Have You Got Everything You Need to Follow the Budwig Diet?
Getting ready to follow the Budwig Diet is really quite simple. The diet is based on fresh, whole foods with cold-pressed flaxseed oil blended into quark cottage cheese, all prepared from scratch, with no ultra-processed foods.
Budwig Essentials
These staple ingredients are best bought from online producers who can deliver them fresh and in the larger quantities you’ll need. Some are also available from good health food shops and some supermarkets.
Cold-pressed, organic or high-lignan linseed (flax) oil
Raw Honey – the best honey usually comes from local bee-keepers
Essential Groceries
- Fresh Fruit and Vegetables – some frozen can be an option
- Nuts – not peanuts
- Quark (or make your own) cottage cheese or unsweetened Greek yoghurt – a high protein content of about 10-12 % is what you are aiming for.
- Coconut Oil (cold-pressed, raw, extra virgin)
- Organic Green Tea – green tea varies enormously so it’s worth shopping around and trying lots.
- Herbal Tea
- Nutritional Yeast
- Pulses and grains
Equipment
You don’t need to spend a fortune, but these items will get plenty of use, so it’s often worth spending a bit more to get good quality. You can find more detailed information about the essential equipment you’ll need. here.
- Hand blender
- Coffee mill
- Juicer