Party Platters
Yes, Mother's has a party platter with your name on it! They're perfect for your next party, meeting or event.
Big Plates = Big Waists |
| Posted by Chicago Tribune on May 24th, 2011 How's your diet plan working? Not so good, you say? Take a tip from Brian Wansink. He heads Cornell University's Food and Brand Lab, wrote the book "Mindless Eating" and studied how big plates make us fat. OK, it's not the plate. But the bigger the plate, the more we fill it. Dinner plate sizes have increased 36 percent since the '60s, he said. And if you go from a 10-inch plate to a 12-inch plate, "the amount people serve themselves goes up about 22 percent." A 9-inch plate is better? Maybe not. "Sometimes people start realizing they've served themselves less and go back for seconds and thirds," he said. To find out the difference, we filled three plates (9-inch, 10-inch and 12-inch) with spaghetti, bottled sauce and frozen meatballs, then tallied calories. The 9-inch plate holds serving sizes printed on the packages. 9-inch plate: 2 ounces pasta (1 cup cooked) 210 calories 1/2 cup sauce 60 calories 3 meatballs (3 ounces) 250 calories Total: 520 calories 10-inch plate: 4 ounces pasta 420 calories 1 cup sauce 120 calories 4 meatballs (4 ounces) 333 calories Total: 873 calories 12-inch plate: 6 ounces pasta 630 calories 1 1/2 cups sauce 180 calories 5 meatballs (5 ounces) 417 calories Total: 1,227 calories |
Special Diets
At Mother's Market we have an unbeatable selection of foods for special diets. So whatever you need, Mother's is the place to find it.
- Organic Foods
- Gluten-Free
- Non-GMO
- Vegan
- Vegetarian
- Low-Sodium
- Raw Foods
- Dairy Free
- Low-Glycemic