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Healthy Eating for Elders: Creating a No-Cook Meal1

Jennifer Hillan2

What's for supper when you don't feel like cooking? Think of foods to use for a well-balanced, no-cook meal. Then put the foods where they belong in the pyramid.

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How does your meal fit in the Food Guide Pyramid? Is your supper balanced -- does it have food from at least three of the basic food groups (don't count fats, oils, and sweets)? If not, go back and make some changes. If you did use food from at least three of the basic food groups, you've created a balanced meal! Now, give it a try at home!

Footnotes

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This document, FCS8692-Eng, is one in a series of the Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611. Publication date: March 2004. This leaflet was developed with funding from the Florida Department of Elder Affairs in partnership with state, county, and local agencies. Please visit the EDIS Web site at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu

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Jennifer Hillan, MSH, RD, LD/N, former ENAFS nutrition educator/trainer, Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611. Reviewed by Linda B. Bobroff, PhD, RD, LD/N, professor, University of Florida.

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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension Service, University of Florida, IFAS, Florida A. & M. University Cooperative Extension Program, and Boards of County Commissioners Cooperating. Millie Ferrer-Chancy, Interim Dean.