Sorry Folks....Size Does Matter

    I'm not sure if you have the same problem as me, but my kitchen cabinets look like this ALL the time!

And, no Mother, it's not because I didn't close them all the way!

While looking into portion control and serving sizes, I found that dinner plates on average are 2 inches bigger than the ones our parents and grandparents grew up using. No wonder all of those Lean Cuisines look so tiny. When it comes to eating out, it's a no brainer that plate and portion sizes are ridiculous. They come out on a platter that could feed a family of four, yet we gobble it up like its our last meal!

Remember in the 80s and 90s when the over-sized chairs came out (my father had two of them in his living room and I thought they were soooo cool), Wendy's made everything BIGGIE, and McDonald's went Supersize! It seemed great at the time, but in reality, it has destroyed us. What was once considered over exaggerated and enormous, is now the standard.

Take a look at the dinner plate with the deck of cards on it. That minuscule looking deck, which is smaller than my iPhone,  represents a serving of meat. The plate swallows it!

The next time you eat out or load your plate up, think not only about the size of your plate, but the size of your portions as well. Use your phone as a reference!

TIP* Use a salad plate for meals rather than a dinner plate. It is actually much closer in size to the dinner plates of the past.