How can we hand over the right size of food items?

• If it fits in the palm of your hand, it is a 2 – 3 ounce size of cooked meat
• If it can fit from the top of your wrist to the tip if your middle finger, it is a 3 ounce size cooked fish. 
• If it can lay on your thumb and extend to the bottom or your hand that is the size of a 3 ounce chicken leg.
• If it can cover your thumb, it is the size of 2 tablespoons of peanut butter
• Cup your hand and if it does not fall out that is the size of a ½ cup of rice or potato
• The first notch of your thumb is an ounce of cheese and butter
• Place your index and middle finger together. Measuring from the tip to the bottom of your hand, is the length of a plantain cut in half.
• How much is too much gravy? If you have to act like Moses who parted the Red Sea, that is too much.

Something to Chew On is a quarterly program designed to give you nutritional tidbits to satisfy your appetite, nourish your mind, fill your soul and wet your whistle.

The Care Resource Nutritionist is part of the medical team, and so assists in providing the medical comprehensive care the client needs. Please contact 305-576-1234 ext. 220 for information on how to obtain nutritional consultation.