I struggle with this. I've not been well recently and want to try aim for Amelia Freer's food pyramid in a day ( I'm vegetarian) to try feel better.
If I am cooking for my family, and I make a basic normal recipe, how do I work out what each of us are getting from a recipe?
For example, yesterday I bulk cooked a pulse and veggie stew. I got four meals out of it, and there are four of us, but two are children. I've always considered this one of our most nutritious meals but I'm now not sure it is.
The recipe had 6 medium carrots in it, 2 onions, 4 sticks of celery, 0.5 large courgette , 4 tins chopped tomatoes.
If I divide each by 8 (4 meals, and then 4 people). It works out, per person as,
0.75 carrot
0.25 onion
0.5 celery
0.06 courgette
0.5 of a tin of tomatoes
In addition, each person would have 0.5 cup dry brown lentils cooked up - not sure what the quantity of that is.
So is that a mere 1.5 vegetables in this entirely veggie meal 😨?
What does the tomato resolve to as a portion?
And the lentils?
And how would you factor this on the pyramid (see pic)
I honestly thought this meal shovelled healthy stuff into my family. I'm now thinking I'm falling way short.