Portion sizes

Think about the balance of you and your family's whole diet over the course of a day or a week.

Portion sizes can be tricky! We all need different amounts of energy from food, and how much energy you need depends on lots of things...

This includes:

You can think about the balance of you and your family's whole diet over the course of a day or a week.

Basing meals and snacks around starchy foods and fruit & vegetables, as often as you can, will help you get the right balance
Even small portions of foods that are high in fat and/or sugar can contain a lot of energy (calories)

Eating more than you need could mean you are eating too much energy.

What's your way?

In the kitchen

Small manageable changes can be made in the kitchen to fit around your life.

Information on how much starchy foods to include in a healthy diet.

Advice on portion sizes of fruit and vegetables.

Tips on the amount of protein foods to eat.

Advice around dairy (or alternatives) foods to eat.

Helpful tips for reducing the amounts of these foods you eat.