New Year's Resolutions About Food: Health and Wellness Blog

Many of us made New Year’s Resolutions involving food. In 2010, the USDA replaced the Food Guide Pyramid with the Food Guide Plate. According to Dr. Chaney, the new visual consists of a dinner plate and an 8-ounce glass of milk. Vegetables and fruits occupy half of the dinner plate, with grains and protein occupying the other half. And if you look a bit more closely, the vegetable portion is slightly bigger than the fruit portion and the grain portion is slightly bigger than the protein portion.

The new program I started before the holidays takes care of all but one meal a day so I have lots of time to master this plate :). Luckily, with my work in natural health and wellness, I have gradually moved the direction of the plate over the past several years – baby steps do wonders! Cooking for another person who does not have as much interest in this plate makes meal time a little tricky. I have reached the point of including most of the parts of the plate in our meals – now I will continue taking baby steps to adjust the portions. Do you have any good recipes that fit this plate?

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