MyPlate for Moms, How to Feed Yourself & Your Family Better: Decoding the Dietary Guidelines for Your Real Life

You’re busy, and the last thing you need is a one-size-fits-all approach to eating that’s impossible for you and your family to follow. MyPlate for Moms, How to Feed Yourself & Your Family Better decodes the Dietary Guidelines and serves up nutritious and delicious meals and snacks, simple solutions for working in exercise for the entire family, and nutritional guidelines anyone can follow, all while keeping your personal needs in mind. You’ll learn to: • restore balance to your diet using MyPlate • prevent “portion distortion” to improve weight control • dine out without wrecking your intentions to eat right • prepare mouth-watering meals and snacks, with more than 50 recipes that reflect MyPlate’s suggestions for what to eat • help yourself, and your children, to easily get the physical activity you need

Elizabeth M. Ward, M.S., R.D. is an award-winning author of several nutrition books, including Expect the Best, Your Guide to Healthy Eating Before, During & After Pregnancy and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Feeding Your Baby and Toddler. She writes about nutrition and health for WebMD, USATODAY.com, and Men's Fitness magazine, and often appears in print and broadcast interviews, including NBC's Today Show. Ward lives in Reading, Massachusetts with her husband and three daughters.