Since food becomes part of us, we can use a part of our body to measure the quantities we do eat: the hand.

Before sitting down for lunch, with a prearranged board, doct. Marcucci made us measure each of us' hand: big, medium, small.

Then she distributed a paper napkin each, on which a plate was drawn, containing the illustrations of the different courses; next to them we had to write down the correspondent, hand-measured, quantities.

                                                                                                Pugni = Handfuls
Mano = Hand
  Dita = Fingers
           Pallina = Little ball

Once the meal was over we could all 'see' how much food had become part of us.