Your plate

catz789

Hi everyone!
I have a nutrition question/tip for you: What is on your plate?
I try to aim for:
one half of plate: Vegetables
one quarter of plate: Meat or alternate protein source
one quarter of plate: whole grains

lulalacroix

I prefer to weigh my food instead of guessing portions.

Rowan09

lulalacroix wrote: »

I prefer to weigh my food instead of guessing portions.

Who says OP is guessing? Didn't say she wasn't measuring before adding to her plate...

TonyB0588

Half plate of vegetables, quarter meat, quarter starch, is the way I've been eating in recent months.

bbell1985

I eat my lunch and dinner out of a mixing bowl. A whole bag of lettuce, whole cucumber, whole tomato, 4oz of lean meat, 100 of mushroom and hot sauce. All weighed. A plate can't fit what I need in my stomach.

subcounter

I personally eat lots of carbs and protein in the morning and lunch. I usually eat my veggies for dinner. Spinach, broccoli, carrots usually find their ways to my stir fry's. If I feel particularly hungry, I make big salads as well. So my plates don't look equal throughout the day really.

cwolfman13

It varies considerably depending on what's on the menu. Being winter at the moment, we eat a lot of soups and stews.

TonyB0588

bbell1985 wrote: »

I eat my lunch and dinner out of a mixing bowl. A whole bag of lettuce, whole cucumber, whole tomato, 4oz of lean meat, 100 of mushroom and hot sauce. All weighed. A plate can't fit what I need in my stomach.

Doesn't literally have to be a plate. The proportions or ratios are what's important.

AnvilHead

It varies greatly for me. Tonight my plate was about 1/4 carne asada, 1/4 salad with guacamole & salsa as dressing, 1/4 rice and beans, and 1/4 cheese enchilada. The other plate was 100% two ground beef tacos.

I was hungry and had plenty of calories in my allowance for it.

Most nights it's somewhere closer to 1/2 lean meat of some kind and 1/2 vegetables of some kind.

sardelsa

I usually have a plate full of each, or all equal portions I guess. Actually these days it ends up being more starchy carbs/grains than the rest.

Machka9

First ... I often use a bowl.

For lunch today, I had bowl with 150 grams of steamed veggies + 125 grams of brown rice + 59 grams of tinned chicken in springwater. Total: 311 calories.

Dinner last night was on a plate and was 200 grams of steamed veggies + 125 grams of Dr Oetker - Papa Giuseppi's Panini, Tomato and Cheese. Total 417 calories.


Most days will be something like that.

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EricaCraigie

bbell1985 wrote: »

I eat my lunch and dinner out of a mixing bowl. A whole bag of lettuce, whole cucumber, whole tomato, 4oz of lean meat, 100 of mushroom and hot sauce. All weighed. A plate can't fit what I need in my stomach.

I like your style.

Christine_72

I've never honestly thought about it. Tonight I'm having roast chicken with a veggie salad, so the plate will be 3/4 veggies and 1/4 Protein.

My recipes vary so much that it's never a stock standard serving of this and that, every night is different.

kommodevaran

TonyB0588 wrote: »

bbell1985 wrote: »

I eat my lunch and dinner out of a mixing bowl. A whole bag of lettuce, whole cucumber, whole tomato, 4oz of lean meat, 100 of mushroom and hot sauce. All weighed. A plate can't fit what I need in my stomach.

Doesn't literally have to be a plate. The proportions or ratios are what's important.

That's why well meant guidelines often backfire - they don't translate well to real life situations. And one set of guidelines for people with wildly varying goals and preferences... not good.

1/2 of your plate filled with vegetables is a good rule of thumb for someone wanting to lose weight.
1/3 of your plate filled with vegetables is a good rule of thumb for someone wanting to maintain weight.
1/2 of your plate filled with starch is a good rule of thumb for an athlete or someone wanting to gain weight.

But it can only be used as something to "keep in mind". Common sense is still required. For instance, you can't eat unlimited amounts if you just follow this setup. Besides, it's a "dinner" setup. Other meals can follow different setups. And real people eat a varying number of meals with varying but real setups through the day.

zyxst

I use separate dishes for most of my foods, salads or a pasta being the exceptions.

livingleanlivingclean

Sometimes it's lots of vegies, sometimes it's not. It depends on the meal. I try to eat lots of vegies because I enjoy them, and I like volume. I don't eat a lot of grains as I'd prefer more vegies. I make sure to have a decent amount of protein and fat..

At the end of the day, I don't follow plate "rules".... I make sure my macros fit my goals.

Dinner tonight is 150g fish, with salad (800g vegies) with avocado and Parmesan cheese.

Lunch was eggs with vegies (500g) and Parmesan...

I also have dessert (Yoghurt, fruit, nuts) and a snack (mainly protein)

perkymommy

I don't eat portion sizes like that on a plate. I have to weigh and measure and then put it on the plate.

xnaturallybx

I don't weigh anything but carbs... Its too easy to overdo the carbs haha. I measure using cups instead

lulalacroix

Rowan09 wrote: »

lulalacroix wrote: »

I prefer to weigh my food instead of guessing portions.

Who says OP is guessing? Didn't say she wasn't measuring before adding to her plate...

I wasn't referring to the OP guessing, but myself. If I could eyeball appropriate amounts I probably would not have a weight issue. I would gather that may be true for many people who are overweight.

Emily3907

I just kind of eat what I want as it sounds good, so it varies a lot for me. I weigh everything, but I don't have any rules/guidelines outside of that.

lucys1225

80% vegetables 20% meat of some kind.

rugratz2015

catz789 wrote: »

Hi everyone!
I have a nutrition question/tip for you: What is on your plate?
I try to aim for:
one half of plate: Vegetables
one quarter of plate: Meat or alternate protein source
one quarter of plate: whole grains

My plate would be similar, although I have been known to eat bags of fresh spinach as a snack x

bbell1985

TonyB0588 wrote: »

bbell1985 wrote: »

I eat my lunch and dinner out of a mixing bowl. A whole bag of lettuce, whole cucumber, whole tomato, 4oz of lean meat, 100 of mushroom and hot sauce. All weighed. A plate can't fit what I need in my stomach.

Doesn't literally have to be a plate. The proportions or ratios are what's important.

My proportions look nothing like that, is what I'm saying.

Lounmoun

It varies.

DietPrada

2/3 unprocessed meat and 1/3 low carb veges (zucchini, mushroom, cauli, broccoli)

sybillabryson

I'm pregnant and always craving fruit...so lately my plate...or bowl rather has been like 50% fruit, 40% low fat dairy and 10% walnuts, cashews or peanut butter. Breakfast is always lots of eggs though.

crzycatlady1

Lounmoun wrote: »

It varies.

Yep this. A typical day is no eating in the morning followed by my largest meal of the day between 11am -noon and that's usually 3 servings of frozen veggies, 1 serving of rice or pasta, 4-8 ounces of chicken and then a sauce; along with a serving of some sort of chips. And then a lighter evening meal usually of 3 servings of oats with a serving of fruit mixed in. And then I eat out several times a week, usually on the weekends, and those meals vary quite a bit.

kommodevaran

EbonyDahlia wrote: »

2/3 unprocessed meat and 1/3 low carb veges (zucchini, mushroom, cauli, broccoli)

Raw meat?