Name_____________________
Class Hour ________
Analyze Your Diet
PART I: Before the analysis
A. Go to http://www.choosemyplate.gov/ .
B. At the top of the webpage click on the lime green tab labeled ‘Super Tracker and Other Tools’ From
there scroll down to ‘Daily Food Plans’
C. Click on ‘Daily Food Plan’ Type in your Age, Gender, Weight, Height and Physical Activity Level and
submit. A reccommened plan based on the average needs of someone with your statistics will be shown.
On the RIGHT hand side of this screen click on tab labled
‘Meal Tracking Worksheet’A PDF fill open up in a new
window. Print THREE copiesof this worksheet.
D. For three days you are to record EVERYTHING you have consumed in the right hand column. In the
left hand column place the food item into the appropriate food group. (if you are unsure where a food
item belongs check the
KEEP THESE SHEETS AS THEY WILL BE USED AND GRADED FOR ACCURACY PURPOSES FOR
THE NEXT PART OF THIS PROJECT.
PART II: Check off each step as you go along
1. Go to http://www.choosemyplate.gov/ .
2. At the top of the webpage click the lime green tab labeled ‘Super Tracker and Other Tools’ form there
click on ‘Super Tracker’ in blue
3. Click on ‘Super Tracker’ Next creat a profile by clicking on the upper right hand aqua blue box.
For your profile name use your STUDENT I.D.Provide your personal informaiton to make
your profile as accurate as possible. Register your profile so your work will be saved again
keeping your STUDENT I.D. as your username and SCHOOL login password.
4. NOW we should be ready to start recording our food intake  Click on ‘Track Food & Activty’ from
there click on ‘Food Tracker’
5. In the top left hand corner change the date to the FIRST date you recorded your food inatke , NOT
TODAY’S DATE! You will enter in day 2 and day 3 separately. (This is the screen where you can go
back to change the date for day 2 and day 3 when you are at that point- simply change the date and click
Save Today’s Changes.)
6. To start adding your foods you can search ‘All Foods’ or if you know what group a food item belongs to
you can specify in the drop down menu. So for example, I know bananas are a fruit so I Search ‘Fruit’
for ‘bananas’ and click ‘Go’
(If you do NOT know what food group it belongs to you can do an ‘All Foods’ search)
*HINT Super Tracker does not recognize all Foods. For example Veggie Burger is not found but
Vegetarian Burger will be. Some foods are very specific like McDonald’s Cheeseburger can be found
though.
7. At this point you may get a LIST of food items that fit this search. Pick the item that most closely fits
food you consumed. Example I would choose ‘Bananas, raw’ . You will need to choose a portion
size for your food and the number of portins you consumed. Realizing you may not know the exact
portion size of the food you ate choose the best estimate.
8.
Next click on the box in which you ate this food, breakfast, lunch, dinner or snacks and click on the
aqua blue box labeled ‘+Add’ As you choose items they will appear on the right side of the screen and
your food intake graph will update. Continue this for Day 1 until all of your food has been added.
*HINT If you wish you may add a food item to your favorites if you also consumed them in Day 2 or Day
3 so you will not have to re-search the food item. You may also create a combo if you consumed the
same foods for a meal more than one day in a row.
9. When all food is entered, change the date to your second and third day of recorded diet and repeat items
6-8
10. Select the “My Reports” Tab from the blue ribbon at the top of the page.
a. Click on Meal Summary put in the three day range you recorded your food intake. Click the All
Meals box. Then Create Report. Next EXPORT the report in another format and print out.
b. Click on Food Groups and Calories and put in the three day range you recorded you food intake.
Then Create Report. Next EXPORT the report in another format and print out
c. Click on Nutrients and put the three day range you recorded your food intake. Then Create
Report. Next EXPORT the report in another format and print out.
11. Gather all of the printouts and staple them in order to the back of your food log packet and continue onto
Part III which MUST BE TYPED. Your teacher will let you know how to access this document.