do you get all servings of proper food groups a day?

Hi, i am pretty sure that i don't eat enough of my different food groups in a day. i make sure to take a multi-vitamin. Just wondering how you get all food groups in your diet??

Thanks:)

It's hard! The group I have the hardest time with is whole grains. I get maybe 3 servings a day...if I'm lucky. I do however get all of fruits and veggies in.:)

Hello, I do the food groups and sometimes it is hard. One thing that helped me is at mealtime I try to eat 3 to 4 of the food groups. This is suppose to help balance the meal. When I want a snack, I just figure out what I have not eaten. I made little charts so that every time I eat something I just put a tick in the box beside the food group. It goes something like this:

Fruits & Veggies: _  _  _  _  _  _  _
Grains Products: _  _  _  _  _  _
Milk & Alternatives: _  _  _
Meat & Alternatives: _  _  _  _  _  _ (per oz)
Fat: _  _  _
Extra Calories: _______________________________

Now, I use a word processing program and I have little boxes instead of dashes. I also just started to use boxes for up to 1400 calorie diet and then the circles for 2,000 calories. Some days I am really hungry and 1400 calories is not enough. I just want to make sure I stay within the food guide on the days that I eat more. This ensures I do not over eat.

I am in the process of making up some charts and posting them on the internet for anyone who would like to use them. I will let you know when I have done this. My charts go by the Canada Food Guide. My personal chart is for women over 50.

Hope this helps you. Let me know what kind of chart you would like and I can make a printable one for you. I can put a week to 10 days on one page.

 

Even if your diet isn't perfect it's unlikely that you need multivitamins on top.   I think the main one to get right is the 5-a-day fruit and veg minimum... and where you go from there is not quite so important.   What often gets forgotten is not that you need to hit all the foodgroups but that you need as big a variety of foods as possible.  So someone that was getting a food-pyramid-perfect diet could still be missing out if they ate the exact same things every day, for example.

Don't worry too much about macronutrients and whether you get 100% of your RDAs.... just enjoy a varied diet with plenty of vegetables and some fresh fruit and, if you're under 50, you should be in good shape without supplements.