How Much Is a Serving Size?

• Meat, fish and chicken (2-3 ounces of cooked lean meat, poultry or fish): no wider or thicker than the palm of your hand

• Potatoes or rice: about the size of your fist

• Bread: one roll the size of your fist or one slice as thick as your palm

• Pasta (1/2 cup of cooked cereal, rice or pasta): two fistfuls

• Pasta sauce: one fistful

• Cheese: a one-inch cube, about the length from the tip of your thumb to the first joint down