While I'd rate my culinary skills as fairly good – you really do need to try my trout with gooseberry sauce – I'm not so hot when it comes to corralling different food groups into a well-balanced and tasty menu.

Fortunately, help is at hand from the Food Standards Agency. It's white-coated dieticians have come up with the Eatwell Plate, a visual feast of food that shows the different types and proportions of foods we need to have a healthy and balanced diet.

Split into five sections, the plate is an at-a-glance guide to what amount of fruit and vegetables, bread, pasta, rice, meat, fish, fat, sugar and dairy products we should be consuming on a daily basis.

You don't need to get the balance right for every meal, but over the course of a week it'll show you how to balance everything out, with plenty of advice, tips and mouth-watering recipes.

What's more, it'll also teach you how to adjust your diet to account for an active or sedentary lifestyle, and point you in the direction of further information.

If you want to download a copy of the Eatwell plate so you can stick it on your fridge as a constant reminder to eat a healthy diet, go to www.eatwell.gov.uk.