Carol's 24-Hour Dietary Recall

Carol's 24-Hour Dietary Recall

Carol’s Meals and Snack for the day

Number of Servings

Grain Products Vegetables & Fruit Milk

Products Meat & Alternatives Other

Foods

Breakfast:

2 cups Rice Crispies Cereal (120g) 4

½ cup 2% milk (125ml) 1/2

2 cups coffee: (500ml) *

:with 2 tbsp. cream tr.

Snack:

Croissant : 1

:With raisins tr.

:with butter *

Apple 1

Lunch:

‘Meat & Cheese Lovers’ lasagna:

With mozza cheese 2

With Regular Ground Beef 2

With Tomato Sauce 1

With Regular Noodles 2

Garlic Toast: 2

With Garlic *

Coke (355ml) *

Snack:

Warm sticky Cinnamon Bun: 1

With syrup sauce *

With regular margarine *

2 cups coffee: (500mL) *

With 2tbs. cream Tr.

Supper:

4 fish sticks 2

2 cups French Fries: 4

With ketchup (6 tbsp.) *

1 cup corn 2

Snack:

1 Beer (355ml) *

1 small bag seasoned taco chips (55g) *

Total 10 8 2 1/2 4

Carol did meet the recommended number of servings in each of the four food groups as shown in the previous page and also below.

Grain Products Vegetables & Fruit Milk Products Meat & Alternatives Other Foods

Carol’s Total Intake 10 3 2 ½ 4 ***

Recommended Food Guide Range 5-12 5-10 2-4 2-3 ***

This shows that Carol consumed quite a few other foods for that day including 4 cups of coffee. Though Carol did meet the required number of servings for each of the four food groups, her choices for each food group could have been better.

Carol’s food choices did not reflect the six Directive Statements in Canada’s Food Guide to Healthy Eating as well as they should have. The first Directive Statement is to “enjoy a variety of foo...

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...k milk on a regular basis. For snacks I usually have soups, fruit, fruit juices, etc. I eat a variety of foods every day from the four food groups while concentrating on the ‘lower fat’ foods. I am fairly active with karate, football and occasionally jogging. Though I’m still active I do not eat as much as Carol does in a day. Carol has a lot of other foods in her diet and usually I do not, since I try not to eat margarine or any other extra additives to foods. In regards to the serving sizes, I meet the requirements of the vegetables and fruit, but I do lack one serving or sometimes all of the servings of milk products and meat and alternatives.

Bibliography:

-Nutrition 120.3 Class Notes

-‘Contemporary Nutrition’ textbook

-‘Using the Food Guide’/Canada’s Food Guide to Healthy Eating

-‘Food Guide Facts-Background for Educators and Communicators’