Choose My Plate Assignment (Nutrition)

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Worksheet 1 - Food intake Chart – Record over 24 hours your entire intake for Choose MyPlate assignment. You will need this to complete the worksheets for your assignment.

State Time of Meal, Snack or Drink	Foods or drinks consumed (state amount) E.g. Tbsp./cups/oz./cc

ChooseMyPlate Worksheet 2 – Evaluating your Intake – compare your intake with the ideal ChooseMyPlate Plan

Food Group	Identify food groups and amounts consumed in 24 hrs. (from your intake – worksheet 1)	Identify Total food groups consumed in 24 hours (from your intake)	State Total Ideal food groups from the MyPlate Plan (ie 1600, 1800 etc)	State amount lacking/exceeded for each food group compared to the ideal
Grains
Vegetables
Fruits
Dairy
Protein Foods
Oils
List foods with solid fats + added sugars (“empty calories”)

1. How would you rate the diet that you recorded? What will you need to add or remove to improve your diet to make it reach your ChooseMyPlate Plan?

Please provide as much detail as possible. When adding or removing to improve your diet, give specific foods.

Worksheet Three-Create your improved meals using your Choose MyPlate Plan (ie. 1600, 1800 etc)

Meals	Foods with Portion Size	Food Groups for each food
Meal One
Meal Two
Meal Three
Snack One
Snack Two

2. After reading the Dietary Guidelines Executive Summary posted on Blackboard: a) List the 4 recommendations of the Dietary Guidelines stated in the Executive Summary.

b) For each of these recommendations, state how ChooseMyPlate website helps to implement the Dietary Guideline Recommendations.