med either rounding or heaping tablespoons that it must
be remembered that we can only estimate. Patients who are instructed
how to feed themselves on leaving the hospital are cautioned carefully
to take about the quantity of an article of food they have been served
while in the hospital when the diet is weighed. Any written advice is
always given in quantities known to be _under_ the carbohydrate or
protein tolerance of the patient. However, if they will boil the
vegetables and change the water at least twice, so much carbohydrate
is removed that it is quite possible for them to obtain a comfortable
bulk and still take in very small quantities of carbohydrate.

100-Gram Portions.

Asparagus--8 or 9 stalks 4 inches long.
Beans (string) (cut in small pieces) 3 heaping tablespoons.
Bacon--4 slices 6 inches long, 2 inches wide.[7]
Cabbage (cooked)--3 heaping tablespoons.
Cauliflower--3 rounding tablespoons.
Celery--6 pieces 4-1/2 inches long, medium thickness.
Cheese--a piece 4 inches by 1-1/2 inch by 1 inch.
Cucumbers--12 slices 1/8 inch thick, 1/2 inch in diameter.
Greens (spinach, kale, etc.)--2 heaping tablespoons.
Lettuce--10 to 12 medium-sized leaves.
Onions--2 onions, size of an egg.
Olives--25 small olives.
Peas--3 rounding tablespoons.
Potatoes (baked)--1 small potato, size of egg.
Potatoes (mashed)--2 rounding tablespoons.
Sardines--28 sardines--1 small box.
Salmon--1/4 can (almost).
Tomatoes--2-1/2 heaping tablespoons.
Tomatoes--fresh, one medium sized tomato, 2 inches in diameter.

[7] Bacon loses about half of its fat content when cooked.

Other Weights.

1 tablespoon olive oil = 13 grams
1 tablespoon mayonnaise = 21 "
1 thin slice of bread (baker's loaf) = 25 "
1 medium sized orange = 150 "
1 peach = 125 "
1 medium sized apple = 150 "
1/2 small grape fruit = 150 "
1 medium sized lamb chop with bone = 100 "
1 medium sized slice cold tongue = 25 "
1 slice tenderloin steak 1 in. thick = 100 "
1 average helping of fish = 100 "
1 average helping of butter = 10 "
1 average sized egg