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On your plate - vegetables
What's On Your Plate?
The Art of Health
This new handout highlights the importance of building balanced meals and eating them mindfully. Check it out!
Fall Nutrition Handout
Fall is in full swing, and what better way to celebrate is there than with a fresh new handout?
Make Healthful Choices Appealing
How a food looks aesthetically can seriously affect people's perception of it. In order to make healthy meals appetizing, it helps to make them actually look appealing too.
Improve Your Cooking Skills: Presentation
I'm so proud of the new plating course Spectacular and Professional Plate Presentations that I just have to share a little preview with you today!
Printable Nutrition Poster!
I've got a new nutrition poster for you today... And here's the best part: it's totally free!
Choose MyPlate Printable Handout
I am having so much fun coming up with new free printable nutrition education materials. Today I want to focus on MyPlate. Here's a brand-new handout that I've created, just for you!
Strategies for Fruit and Vegetable Consumption
The post Fill Half Your Plate with Fruits and Vegetables at Each Meal highlighted the importance of filling your plate with fruits and vegetables at each meal. Now we're going to discuss how to do it.
Baked Chicken with a Twist
This delicious baked chicken dinner will be a winner any night of the week!
Updates from MyPlate
I just got back from the 2015 USDA MyPlate National Partners in Person Meeting and I have so much to tell you!
3 MyPlate Messages for August
Get ready for August with MyPlate's monthly tips!
How to Make MyPlate: A Guide
Want to offer your clients a basic guide to making MyPlate into their plates? Today is your lucky day!
More Tips for Summer Survival
Sidestep summer pitfalls with this handy guide!
My Journey with Fitbit
A few months ago, I decided to get a FitBit. Here's what happened...
12 Things We Learned from MyPlate
Here are 12 things we learned about MyPlate after working with it all week. We read through the pages of the USDA choosemyplate.gov site, performed makeovers on over 8 meals, and created a comprehensive MyPlate PowerPoint presentation that has over 70 slides. We like the new plate quite a lot and were amazed that it even works with fast food.
MyPlate
We love to play with MyPlate. This post reviews a few ways that we tested MyPlate's applications in the real world. We moved a McDonald's value meal out of the bag and onto a plate, which offers a better sense of portions and proportions. When we brought it into alignment with MyPlate's messages, the meal went from over 900 calories to just over 300 calories. Voila!
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