Portion Sizes

Making Sense of Them

Fruits & Vegetables

1 cup of vegetables is the size of a baseball

1 medium fruit is the size of a baseball

Meat, Poultry, and Fish

3oz of meat or poultry is the size of a deck of cards

3 oz of fish is the size of a checkbook

Other items

2 tablespoons of almond butter is the size of a ping pong ball

1 cup of skim milk or non-dairy milk is the size of a fist

1 teaspoon of olive oil or other healthy oil is the size of your thumb tip