Use your hand to provide an estimate when measuring food

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Fist = 1 cup or 1 medium whole fruit
Thumb (tip to base) = 1 ounce of meat or cheese
Thumb (tip to 1st joint) = 1 tablespoon
Fingertip (tip to 1st joint) = 1 teaspoon
Index finger (1st to 2nd joint) = 1 inch
Cupped hand = 1-2 ounces of nuts or pretzels
Palm (minus fingers) = 3 ounces of cooked meat, fish or poultry

[Anonymous Bot]

[cmcgilvrey]

Visual Cues for Serving Sizes

1 tsp quarter, tip of thumb
1 Tbsp silver dollar, whole thumb
2 Tbsp (1/8 cup) one sandwich cookie, nail polish bottle
1/4 cup (4 Tbsp) golf ball, large egg
1/3 cup compact, espresso cup
1/2 cup 1/2 orange, small fist
1 cup baseball, light bulb
1 oz meat/cheese computer disk, tub of lipstick
1 oz snack food rounded handful
2 oz meat/cheese 3 fingers, 4 dominoes
3 oz meat/cheese desk of cards, computer mouse
4 oz meat/cheese palm of man’s hand
1 muffin or piece of fruit tennis ball
1 bagel 6 oz can of tuna