Everyday Systems

Sorry if this has been covered before. I usually eat a bowl of cereal for breakfast. How does this work under the one-plate rule? Thanks in advance.

No problem. If it is a really sugary cereal, you should be saving it for an S day. Remember, no sweets, not no sugar. If a bowl of cereal staves off your hunger until lunch that is great, otherwise, add some fruit, nuts or anything else that works for you. It's funny that I am responding, because I am not a cereal-eater.

If you intend to eat more than cereal for breakfast, put the bowl on a plate or visualize the plate. If the extra fits on the plate, you're good to go. I could probably get a bowl of cereal, fruit and toast on my plates -- and they're not particularly large.

Having said that, I don't worry about it. I usually have toast and/or oatmeal and fruit. I just figure one serving of everything.

If you're just eating cereal, I would count the one bowl the same as one plate...

And, save the super-sugary kinds for S days, like someone else already mentioned. ;o)

I'm a big cereal-for-breakfast gal -- it's what I have almost every day. I eat one bowl of it, and that's good enough for me. Occasionally, I'll switch things up and have one or two pieces of toast with peanut-butter, or I'll have oatmeal. But mostly, I eat cereal.

On the weekends, I eat Quaker oatmeal bars instead. They're "sweet" enough that I limit them to weekends/S days. ;o)

if my meal is all in a bowl... it becomes a one bowl meal
if I am eating something other than what's in the bowl, I put the bowl on my plate and put the other stuff around it ...

it is so pretty that way!

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