Diet & Nutrition Quiz: How Healthy Do You Really Eat?

Do you dread reading another study to find out how poor your and your family's diet is? Chances are you are eating healthier than the average five years ago. Changes have been made to your shopping habits and nutritional awareness already. But where do you stand with the real value of food and the nutrition you need?

It can be difficult to assess how much you know about food values these days. That's because marketing companies and food distributors have large consumer organizations and marketing and lobby groups which keep advertising for these products when they favor nutritional standards in the media. They keep food consumers advised.

Take this Quiz to see where you stand.

1. 30-40-30 is a ratio for...

a. movies to drama to news in your television watching.
b. protein to carbs to dessert
c. meat group to vegetable group to bread and cereals group
d. lean protein, fruits and vegetables, fiber and nutrients.
e. What your food scale shows you eat at every meal with a calculator.

2. If you don't have time to make everything you skip the...

a. veggies you or your kids don't eat anyway.
b. home cooking and do KFC drive thru with slaw
c. powdered pasta mix and serve lean meat and salad.
d. Meat dish. Salad, veggies, and a lentil dish is enough.
e. The family will help or wait.

3. You sneak yogurt into your diet by...

a. Buying frozen yogurt Ben & Jerry's, yum.
b. You stir yogurt into salad dressing and for snacks.
c. You put artificial sweetener in plain yogurt with granola on top.
d. You take acidophilus and consume it sometimes in your diet.
e. Yogurt is a daily meal for protein and cultures.

4. You've substituted plain fruit for a meal

a. almost never unless stranded on an island
b. If you forgot your ATM card and all your cash
c. when you had a big breakfast or fast food earlier.
d. Whenever you can get away with it.
e. Daily.

4. Eggs are...

a. An excellent addition to flapjacks, bacon, sausage and biscuits.
b. Good with bacon or sausage for breakfast.
c. Good protein substitutes with spinach or hardboiled in salads
d. The source for whites and what you get Eggbeaters for.
e. hardboiled plain with no salt for lunch.

5. Mayonnaise is...