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Balanced Eating with the Food Guide Pyramid

This exercise will help you assess how closely you are adhering to the guidelines set by the food guide pyramid. The pyramid is crucial for monitoring portion sizes, and, to make sure you are eating a varied and nutrionally-sound diet.

Keep up with your eating habits for seven days using this journal page. Analyze your downfalls and successes for the week and then make the appropriate changes. What a difference good nutrition will make!

To make this page more "printer-friendly," the pyramid graphic has been removed. Date:      /      /  

Today I ate the following number of servings of...

Bread, Cereal, Rice, Pasta Group: Less than 6   6   8   7   8   9   10   11    (Goal: 6 to 11)

Fruit Group: Less than 2   2   3   4   (Goal: 2 to 4)

Vegetable Group: Less than 3   3   4   5   (Goal: 3 to 5)

Milk, Yogurt and Cheese Group: Less than 2   2   3   (Goal: 2 to 3)

Meat, Poultry, Fish, Dry Beans and Nuts: Less than 2   2   3   (Goal: 2 to 3)

Fats, Oils and Sweets: Use sparingly.

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