â Salt and pepper. â Meat spice rub, dried ground cumin, ground sage, or ground mustard (optional) 1. Heat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit (it will take at least 20 minutes to warm up). Let the pork chops rest at room temperature while you are heating the oven.
The USDA My Plate campaign offers different ways to envision a serving of meat: 1  Picture slightly less than one-quarter of your dinner plate as the meat serving.  Limit your meat serving to 3 ounces, or the approximate size of a deck of cards and the palm of your hand. This serving size allows you to get 2 more ounces of other protein, such as eggs, nuts or beans.
Perfect Serving Sizes. This is what a healthy meal looks like on a plate: 1â2 vegetables, 1â4 lean meat or beans and 1â4 grains. Figuring out serving sizes is a confusing issue. Portions of both food and drink have gotten larger year after year - to the point of absurdity sometimes - and waistlines have increased along with them.