Stuff You Eat in a Bowl

Thalia · Post by **Thalia** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 10:48 pm

I eat a lot of soups and stews and hot cereal, especially this time of year. Any rules of thumb about how to "virtually plate" a bowl of something, plus a salad or green vegetable and a slice of bread?

Kathleen · Post by **Kathleen** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 11:56 pm

I put the bowl on a plate and put the other food on the plate. I tried just having a separate plate, but that seemed too much like the slippery slope.
Kathleen

wosnes · Post by **wosnes** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 2:31 am

I have two kinds of bowls. They both hold the same amount of food. One won't allow me to put anything else on a dinner plate; the other will. I really don't worry about it.

Post by **reinhard** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 5:04 pm

The single most important thing is too see it all in front of you at once, so you can eyeball excess.

As long as you can do this, I wouldn't stress too much about whether or not you can balance the bread on your bowl or not. If you can make it work with the bowl and other food on a single plate, as Kathleen does, great. That's certainly safer. And if you find you're "slippery sloping" into excess, then it's something you can always fall back on later.

Reinhard

Thalia · Post by **Thalia** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 11:59 pm

Thanks! That's very sensible. As, I guess, I should have expected.

Most of my "eat in a bowl" stuff tends to be pretty filling and/or low in calories, so it would be hard to get too carried away with it.

Cathy B · Post by **Cathy B** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 10:39 pm

I am a newbie, just 10 days in (with green days green!

)

I took my favorite bowl, filled it with food (a pasta, vegie and chicken dish), then shlopped it onto a plate to see how it fit. There was room for a banana or a piece of bread. So I know I can use that bowl as my 'plate'.

I was really happy to learn that, as my favorite meal is a base of vegies with some meat on top, kinda like a taco salad without the tortilla. I add some bleu cheese dressing sometimes, or some salsa. This is my default meal.

Glad to be here! Lost 2.5 lbs the first week! I don't expect that to keep up, but it was a nice present!

lmt2pt · Post by **lmt2pt** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 11:13 pm

My bowls have rims that I put bread or what not on. (Okay, not salad, but I'm not really a soup and salad person, I just put the veggies IN the soup

) Anyway, taking into consideration the depth of the bowl and the width of the rim doing this accomodates the same amount of food as one of my normal plates. I just don't eat bowl food when company is over.

Thalia · Post by **Thalia** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 6:10 pm

So, I'm doing small bowls and a salad plate on the side (instead of a dinner plate). It seems like a very reasonable amount of food. Like, last night (OK, it was an S day anyway, but it was still a No S type of dinner) I had a small bowl of split-pea soup, and on my salad pate a cup or so of sauteed brussels sprouts and a slice of bread.

Thanks, everyone, for the advice!

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Stuff You Eat in a Bowl

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