Guidelines for controlling portions

  • Herald News Services
  • Monday, January 26, 2009 10:52am
  • Life

Keeping it real: Need help with portion control?

Visual aids are a great way to make sure you’re really serving up a serving size — not two, three or four.

Here are guides to get you started:

  • One serving of meat is about 3 ounces, roughly the size of a deck of cards.
  • A 1-cup serving of pasta or rice should be about the size of a tennis ball.
  • Two tablespoons of peanut butter is about the size of a pingpong ball.
  • A serving of cooked veggies is half a cup.
  • A perfectly portioned baked potato should be about the size of a computer mouse.
  • A serving of cheese is 1 ounce, or the size of six dice.

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