Did You Know?: Household items can help you perfect your portions

You’ve likely heard that, as many Americans have issues with portion control (and as restaurants and fast food chains continue to offer larger and larger portions), we all need to pay more attention to our portion sizes; however, you probably have no idea how to translate this good advice into real life situations. Most of us don’t measure or weigh our food each time we sit down to a meal, so we have to estimate our portion sizes by “eyeballing” them. A great way to do this is to compare portions of food to everyday household items. For example, did you know that one serving of peanut butter is 2 tablespoons, or approximately the size of a ping pong ball? Now you do. For 9 more tips like this, check out the Food Network’s “10 Ways to Measure Perfect Portion Sizes.”

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You’ve likely heard that, as many Americans have issues with portion control (and as restaurants and fast food chains continue to offer larger and larger portions), we all need to pay more attention to our portion sizes; however, you probably have no idea how to translate this good advice into real life situations. Most of us don’t measure or weigh our food each time we sit down to a meal, so we have to estimate our portion sizes by “eyeballing” them. A great way to do this is to compare portions of food to everyday household items. For example, did you know that one serving of peanut butter is 2 tablespoons, or approximately the size of a ping pong ball? Now you do. For 9 more tips like this, check out the Food Network’s “10 Ways to Measure Perfect Portion Sizes.”

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