Everyday Systems

I thought this might be kinda fun, get us to laugh at ourselves anyway.

Fill in the blank.

You know your plate is too full when.....

....I sustain a wrist injury from carrying my plate to the table!


Have a funny fabulous Friday!

Maggie

Your five year old daughter screams, "Daddy, that's too much pizza! Put some back!"

...passing rodents use your mashed potato as a ski slope.

ThomsonsPier wrote:...passing rodents use your mashed potato as a ski slope.

LOL!

ThomsonsPier wrote:...passing rodents use your mashed potato as a ski slope.

Oh, yuck!

Your dog sits waiting for something to fall off the plate -- because it WILL happen.

Oh these are great! I so needed to laugh today.

Thanks guys!

I have another one:

...you find something at the bottom of your plate that you forgot you put there.

...it grows eerily quiet at the Chinese buffet as you walk back to your table.

eerily quiet at the Chinese Buffet!! LOL!!

or while your walking back to your table someone tells you "You know they let you go back for another plate at buffets."

....you get applause for balancing it back to your table successfully.

or

....your wife give you the stink eye across the table like you are some little child.

or

....you get told off with "You better clear that plate smarty!"

You guys are too funny!

reinhard wrote:Your five year old daughter screams, "Daddy, that's too much pizza! Put some back!"

Aren't children so refreshingly honest It reminds me of the story I once heard about the pregnant woman. After fixing her plate for dinner her seven year old son asked, " Mommy, just how many babies are you feeding in there"? You gotta love children They keep us on our toes!

Maggie

....you have to do warm up stretches before picking it up!

....you've discovered the greatest idea ever. Eating breakfast on the Thanksgiving turkey platter.

• ... you can't see the person on the other side of the table.
• ... your Chinette* plate collapses
• ... you can't cut your meat because there is not enough room to move your
  knife back and forth.

*For our non-US friends, Chinette is an especially heavy duty paper plate. It's actually more like some sort of reinforced cardboard with a coated surface. It's marketed as being tough enough to be loaded down.

... you cut your meat because there is not enough room to move your
knife back and forth.

So I haven't thought of anything to add, but I can totally relate to this! My main dish (not meat) usually ends up running into my veggies when I try to cut it into bitesize pieces.

Haha, keep 'em coming![/quote]

Blithe Morning wrote:

• ... you can't see the person on the other side of the table.

This one cracked me and my husband up!!!

Maggie

A waiter comes up and asks you if you want a "waffer thin mint"*

(*obligatory Monty Python reference!)

...you're at a buffet, making your way s-l-o-o-o-w-l-y back to your table, carefully balancing the mounded masterpiece with two hands, when a restaurant manager approaches you to remind you that there is no food sharing allowed...

Mimi

This thread is so timely for me. Last night I had one of those big plates (actually three small ones, each with one thing on it, served all at the same time). So in my head, I'd blown it. Yet I hadn't "exactly" had seconds. And I was able to not eat anything else the rest of the evening (shocking for me on any kind of diet! I would always take advantage of a misstep to go whole hog).

So this morning, when I went to put red on my habit-cal, I thought about my dinner and realized that I'd actually had a no-S success!

mimi wrote:...you're at a buffet, making your way s-l-o-o-o-w-l-y back to your table, carefully balancing the mounded masterpiece with two hands, when a restaurant manager approaches you to remind you that there is no food sharing allowed...

D

Did that really happen, Mimi??!?!

I do not go to buffets anymore. I always get sick. Probably because it encourages overeating which leads to feeling sick or the food sits out for a long time. I actually do go to an Indian buffet from time to time, but the food is so spicy that you really can't eat that much.

... if it looks like it will take your more than 20 minutes to eat it at a moderate pace.

... it's height resembles a stack of pancakes titled "Sugar Mountain Supreme".

... anyone would have to wonder, "Are you eating for two?"

... you start to plan to be near a bathroom in the next few hours.

... the meal comes free with the purchase of the next size up pair of slacks.

... what was hot on the plate is not anymore by the time you get to that section.

Did that really happen, Mimi??!?!

Thanks guadopt! NO, it didn't! LOL!!!!

Mimi

~reneew wrote:Hillarious!!! Ignorance is bliss, but...

... while carrying it, you look at your table as a trapeeze girl would, the landing pad.
... and you have to lick your thumbs when you get there.
... your plate hits the top dishwasher rack.
... you dish up before everyone else so your plate will look normal when they get to the table.
... you're not loosing any weight. (duh)
... your bicepts get big and you aren't lifting more than a fork.
... you use a tray to capture the run-off.
... your kids say "it's not Suesday Mom."

All of mine have happened to me... except maybe the bicepts The one that I hear all the time is the last one.

Carrying my dinner plate one night is what gave me the idea for the topic. I picked it up and thought, wow, that's heavy. I need to be careful, I may strain my wrist. Embarassing, but true.

Maggie

You know your plate is too heavy when...

You have to do Shovelglove faithfully each day so you're strong enough to lift it.

Your great grandmother's solid walnut dining table collapses under the weight.

I thought of this thread last night when I sat down at the table with 1... repeat 1... homeade calzone and my kids' eyes were bulging. . In my defense, I let the dough rise for quite a while so it would look bigger to myself (it worked) and it did have lots of air inside.... really.

What fun! I just read THE BOOK and a lot of helpful info on this site. I decided today(yesterday) was the day to begin. I was so hungry by dinner time! I was plating dinner for my husband and myself. Remembering that I needed to fit everything onto one plate and remembering nothing more to eat until tomorrow morning, I reached for the meat platter for my dinner and filled it with pasta, meatballs,green beans,salad and bread. My husband had several plates containing the same items at his place. He sat down and looked at his setting and my heaping platter. "What is this diet you are beginning?" he asked. "I think I'll try that too!" ..and so WE have just completed day two together!

That's great Granny G! It's awesome to have someone support you. This is the best thing, really!

I'm sorry "Grammy"

Oh my..as they say.."a rose by any other name would smell as sweet"..so grammy..granny..gerty..what differene does it make...the important thing is that YOU took the time to offer support thanks for that! Also..I have put away the platter and graduated to "dinner" plates and my husband is trying this too! I've read the book, he hasn't so his "one plate" is usually several smaller ones but he doesn't like his foods to "mix" too much. Maybe it is a guy thing! Anyhow, he has been thinking about portion size and so have I and that is the idea! thanks for your comment!

~reneew wrote:
... your plate hits the top dishwasher rack.

I used some cool dishes this Christmas and the plates did hit the top rack!!! I had to wash them by hand. Hmmm. I may need to get rid of them. Or, maybe I'll keep the salad plates that are 9" and only 2 of the "dinner" plates to use as platters!!! Good idea.

~reneew wrote:

~reneew wrote:
... your plate hits the top dishwasher rack.

I used some cool dishes this Christmas and the plates did hit the top rack!!! I had to wash them by hand. Hmmm. I may need to get rid of them. Or, maybe I'll keep the salad plates that are 9" and only 2 of the "dinner" plates to use as platters!!! Good idea.

I have friends whose dishes won't fit in the dishwasher.

I've moved most of my "dinner" plates to the top shelf and kept the smaller lunch size plates and salad plates down low. It's amazing how used-to-it you get. My family didn't say a thing.

When I eat at 5:30 PM,m have a rum and Coke Zero at 8:00 PM, and don't get that first sip "buzz". And no, I don't have a problem.