What Does 300 Calories Look Like? At Home vs Eating Out

We talk about calories all the time but it's often hard to translate an abstract number into what that looks like in terms of food. Here is a great article from the website Sparkpeople that not only demonstrates what 300 calories looks like on the plate but compares how much food you get when eating at home versus eating out. Not surprisingly you get a much bigger portion of food for the same amount of calories when you make it yourself versus at a restaurant. This is especially important if you're trying to manage your weight. You would typically have to eat a lot more calories at a restaurant to get that same feeling of fullness if you prepared it yourself. I've added some of the images here but check out the article for more great comparison pictures.

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