Stuff You Eat in a Bowl
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Stuff You Eat in a Bowl
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?
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.
"That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do. Not that the nature of the thing itself has changed but our power to do it is increased." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You are what you eat -- so don't be Fast, Easy, Cheap or Fake."
"You are what you eat -- so don't be Fast, Easy, Cheap or Fake."
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
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
Stuff you eat in a bowl
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!
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!
Cathy B
simplify, simplify
simplify, simplify
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.
Heather
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!
Thanks, everyone, for the advice!