I’m no food Nazi. I’m not going to force my son to eat if he’s not hungry. I think that can only instill a natural desire to overeat in adulthood – or even earlier. So I was absolutely mortified when my girlfriend told me the principal at her kids’ new school pours leftover scraps the kids leave behind after lunch into buckets marked for each grade. He then weighs the buckets and the grade with the lightest load at the end of the semester gets a prize. The ritual is to encourage kids to eat all the food prepared for …read more

If you’re like me, you’ve read the magazine articles about portion control and portion sizing when it comes to losing weight and/or keeping healthy, but you can’t keep all the measurements and sizes straight in your head. If you’ve got a few bucks to spare, you don’t have to anymore!

The Measure Up Bowl is a handy dish that measures foods for you, without having to use and dirty separate measuring cups. Simply pour or serve whatever you’re eating and then eat directly from the bowl, whether it’s a snack of mixed nuts or a dinner of spaghetti and meatballs.
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Ever find yourself struggling over portion size, or wracking your brain to figure out how many servings are really in that single-serving snack bag from the office vending machine? Thanks to the folks over at WiseGeek.com, now you can see what 200 calories of more than a dozen foods looks like, in full color. Check it out.
I was pretty impressed with how much bacon I can eat for 200 calories, how many apple slices, and how few Gummi Bears. (I love bacon and apples and don’t like Gummi Bears, so it’s a win-win-win for me so …read more