Follow the Healthy Eating Plate

Use The Healthy Eating Plate as a guide for creating healthy, balanced meals—whether served on a plate or packed in a lunch box. 

The Healthy Eating Plate, created by nutrition experts at Harvard School of Public Health and editors at Harvard Health Publications, was designed to address deficiencies in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s MyPlate.

The Healthy Eating Plate provides detailed guidance, in a simple format, to help people make the best eating choices, it is also available in a kid-friendly version and in over 20 languages.