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What's on your plate?

Main meal

 

Eating well with Type 2 diabetes

Try to have a balanced main meal every day. Using your plate as a rough guide will help you to eat foods in the recommended proportions (see illustrations on this page).

Plates showing proportions of food groups for main meal for weight maintenance and main meal for people trying to lose weight

Reviewed August 2010
Next review February 2012 

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