Plates or bowls for everyday eating?

We are using bowls tonight for our pumpkin stew, and grossly eating it on a tray in front of the television. 😄😄😄

Smacked wrists all around.

We are eating pasta penne from pasta bowls in front of the fire and tv. Lovely and cosy.

No smacked wrists here. I am too old (and have eaten enough meals 'properly') to be bothered about what any one thinks of us.

We have just grossly eaten curry in bowls-at little tables by the sofa, whilst watching and discussing the news.

Bean stew in bowls here, though we let the side down and ate at the table - tricky to do the crossword otherwise!
Now going to slump in front of the telly for a bit.

Granmarderby10 Wayfair have a rainbow set of 6 plates, Le Creuset do rainbow sets of everything!
Good luck with your search for colour.

I've got rainbow cutlery.

Spode or Portmeirion seconds shops -- Stoke on Trent?

I'm tempted to go and look for those plates on wayfair, now.

I made bean stew earlier, and Mr Dog was hungry before me, so there was a dilemma. Should we have dropped our standards and eaten at different times, thus adding to the moral decline of the nation, should Mr Dog have gone hungry until I wanted to eat, should I have eaten when I didn't want to, or should we have decided on a time in the middle that suited neither of us?

Answers on a postcard please? The stew was/will be/is being served in bean pots, made specially for serving beans.

Oooh I like your bean pots Doodledog and having given your question plenty of thought my answer is ............ eat at different times.

We did . Mr D at the table, me later in front of Eastenders.

The pots come in many colours, and if you're lucky you might find them in TK Maxx for half the price of John Lewis.

Definitely eat at different times. Or........Mr Dog waits until you're ready

I really should refresh before I post, hadn't seen you'd replied

No, it's fine. I couldn't imagine anyone seriously saying that he should go hungry or I should eat when I'm not. It just doesn't make sense.

So what sort of 'standards' have slipped by us both eating when we wanted to, and doing so out of bowls?

Quite frankly as long as you had your pinkie finger posed in the correct position while you ate, I don't see a problem, no standards slipped at all

I think some things you are bought up with are quite hard to totally let go, and mealtimes are always a hot bed of rules, unspoken but there, then the ones we are taught, all wrapped up in lovely food.

I use both. For Asian food I often use bowls but for a roast I would use a plate. Mostly these days I just use a fork unless the food needs chopping up before I eat. Sometimes we use chopsticks if I cook Chinese or Malaysian food.

Both: using bowls more and more if its a salad or stir fry it keeps the bits together: but I eat quite a bit of mackerel or posh kippers for the oily fish thing and you have to have a plate to keep it separate from the veg as i do not like mackerel flavour veg.

Also a TV meal person as alone. In fact have no eating table as its my office table too!

When eating in the evening with DS and DiL after children in bed its tuck up on settees and TV as well. But childrens or family meal time they are at the table.

As a child we had proper family meals round the table but once my mum lived alone she went for TV dinners. I learnt the full "how to eat properly" when I worked as a waitress at a posh hotel in the summer between school and uni, silver service, formal layout masses of knives, forks, spoons. After that I was fit to eat anywhere as was aware of a fish knife and cake fork for the first time.

Sometimes we use chopsticks if I cook Chinese or Malaysian food.
Oh yes, good point. We do that too, and taught our children to use them so they didn’t have to ask for cutlery in Chinese restaurants.

Vegan noodle squash and sauce in low flat bowl. The salad course followed in identical bowls. As did the pudding with coffee later.

Doodledog

No, it's fine. I couldn't imagine anyone seriously saying that he should go hungry or I should eat when I'm not. It just doesn't make sense.

So what sort of 'standards' have slipped by us both eating when we wanted to, and doing so out of bowls?

I trust you both slurped?

I reckon you get immunity from slovenliness if the bowls are so stylish.

My DiL brings her own chopsticks - much pointier than the squarish ones usually provided.

I think it's ok, as long as you put a neatly pressed napkin on your stomach before placing your bowl on top.

I think it's ok, as long as you put a neatly pressed napkin on your stomach before placing your bowl on top.

That’s where I went wrong MissA. I was having soup in a basket and it didn’t end well 😆

Brilliant!