Health Medical Homework Help. University of Mississippi Main Campus MyPlate Food Groups Exercise
Make Your Own MyPlate Objective:
T o practice the MyPlate eating pattern in your personal life.
Overview of what you will do:
Pick a meal over the next few days that you think will best exhibit the MyPlate principles. Take a picture & upload the picture to Blackboard in the assignment below, along with answers to a few questions about the meal. Your grade will be based on how well you follow the general portion distributions of MyPlate, include all of the food groups in your meal/picture, answer the questions, and follow the meal guidelines listed below.
Meal Guidelines
1. All parts of the meal must be visible in the picture. Don’t say “there was a glass of milk not pictured” in your description – show the milk in the picture!
2. The meal must be plated as if you are about to eat it. This may mean that you need to use several individual dishes. Please don’t post a picture of a food in a serving dish or the plastic container that you bought it in!
3. The meal should contain all of the food groups used by MyPlate. If you have a milk allergy, I would prefer that you use a milk substitue (like calcium-fortified almond milk or soy cheese or anything else in the “dairy” group of MyPlate). However, I realize that these foods can be quite expensive, so if you do not already use them, it may be difficult for you to purchase them just for this project. If that is the case, you can email me prior to the due date to obtain an exception for this food group.
4. Each food group should be present in roughly the correct proportion recommended by MyPlate.
5. While you technically do not have to prepare the meal yourself, please be aware that restaurant meals rarely come in the right proportions and will probably be difficult to manipulate for full credit.
Examples
Here are some examples for you to get an idea of what a MyPlate meal can look like. Note that it doesn’t have to be have the food groups partitioned off. You can estimate the amounts and mix foods together. The most important thing is that you have a little grain, a little protein and lots of fruits and/or vegetables, and a serving of dairy (unless you have a milk allergy and prefer not to have a milk substitute).
Example 1
Tuna-Avocado Open-Faced Sandwiches with Slaw and Oranges
Photo credit to the Food Network.
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Note that in this picture the grain and the protein are together, but you can imagine that they would each take up about 1/4 of the plate.
Example 2
Herbal Chicken Sandwiches
Photo credit to the Food Network.
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Note that in this picture, the fruits and vegetables aren’t actually on the plate – they are in the green smoothies made with Granny Smith apples, avocado and fresh herbs. Instead, we have the dairy (Greek yogurt topped with raspberry jam) on the plate! But the same MyPlate principles and portions are still followed.
Example 3
Pesto spaghetti squash with eggplant, apple compote, corn cakes, water.
Photo credit to the Pima County Food Alliance.
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Note that this is a vegetarian meal!
Example 4
Pan-Seared Salmon with Kale and Apple Salad
Photo credit to the Food Network.
Link here to the original article.
Note that there is no dairy here. You should either add a glass of milk to your picture or obtain prior approval from Ms. Parkes to skip the milk group.
