Habit 5: Healthy Dinner

You’ve completed now four weeks of Habitspark Diet Foundations!  Starting today, you’ll be tracking: Habit 1: Healthy Breakfast, Habit 2: Food Planning, Habit 3: Healthy Lunch, Habit 4: Daily Exercise, & Habit 5: Healthy Dinner.

Habit 5: Healthy Dinner – Eat a dinnertime meal every day in which you have (at least) the following:

• 1/4 plate protein
• 1/4 plate grains or starchy vegetables
• 1/2 plate non-starchy vegetables

This guide is for a 9″ plate, but you can use it with a standard dinner plate by pretending the lip of the plate doesn’t exist.  Remember, the big goal here is to get the nutrients you need.  Work towards picking more nutrient-rich choices, such as whole grains and healthy oils such as fish and flax oil.

You can also try a modified food plate to lower your consumption of starchy carbohydrates:

• 1/2 plate non-starchy vegetables
• 1/4 plate protein
• 1/4 plate fruit

Having both “food plates” in your toolkit will increase your flexibility and allow you to eat in the way that fits your lifestyle best.