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Friday, January 8, 2010

Size DOES Matter Revisited

 Having a hard time remembering portion sizes??
Check out these common items and their portion size equivalence:




1 Baseball
= 1 cup fruit, veggies, pasta, popcorn, rice, cereal, soup
(even for Red Sox haters....)



1 Light Bulb
=1/2 cup: (fruit, veggies, pasta, beans, popcorn, rice, soup, yogurt)



1 Golf Ball
=1/4 cup: Nuts (12 pistacios, peanuts, 7 walnuts halves, 12 almonds)
FOURRRR!


Deck O' Cards
= 3 ounces: a piece of cake,meat/poultry/fish
Go Fish


CD
= 1 pancake or waffle





4 Dice
= 1 ounce of cheese
four of a kind?


1 hockey puck
= 1 bagel (3-4"), muffin, biscuit



1 Package Dental Floss
= 1 ounce chocolate, 2" brownie

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