Balanced meals

Red meat & 3+ veg tips

The “mise en place” approach is a practical way to provide guidance on portion sizes for preparing and serving balanced meals and empower clients to make swaps to improve variety and according to their socio-economic and cultural factors[3].  

The information below provides user-friendly portion sizes of commonly used vegetables to provide guidance on serving a variety of 3+ vegetables with lean red meat in popular meals.

• The user-friendly measures indicated in the table below are approximately equivalent to the 75g serve recommended in the Australian Dietary Guidelines, except where amounts are impractical for popular meals e.g., salad leaves[1].
• The measures and suggested combinations were derived from MLA’s insights which indicate Australians eat lean red meat with non-starchy vegetables and either starchy vegetables (e.g., potato) or grain foods (e.g., pasta or rice) in a variety of meals[2,3,4].

Balanced Meal Guide