Plates or bowls for everyday eating?

Mainly plates, eating at the table. The cat eats out of a bowl although I use pasta dishes for…um…pasta and stir frys sometimes. Plates fit better into the dishwasher.

Plates mainly, bowls for breakfast and desserts

Flat bottomed bowl's for pasta, rice and salads because now on my own. I hardly ever sit at the kitchen table to eat since my husband died, it feels all 'wrong' and a bit lonely staring at the space he use to fill. Now I eat on the sofa with TV for company and use one of those lap tray with fabric filled with something.

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we have both but if it requires a knife and fork, rather than just a fork, then I put it on a plate
Pizza/quiche etc on a plate too

Same here. My bowl plates are a shallow wide bowl but with a flat rim just like a flat plate. A roast demands a larger flat plate

I bought some nice blue Habitat earthenware “pasta” bowls and we are using them more and more for our main meals.
It has an added bonus of holding a smaller portion (helps with calorie intake).
Less chance of food escaping off the edge too.

Depends on the meal. Tonight is was a plate but yesterday was a bowl meal. Sometimes I use a bowl but husband will use plate. No hard and fast rules.

Still mainly use plates and sit at a table to eat, but I prefer sitting at a table to do almost anything, read a book, the newspaper, sewing, somewhere to put the radio and coffee cup safely beside me.

If not sitting at the table I am sitting at my desk, same thing.

Both my children still sit at a table to eat and use mainly flat plates and DGC are being brought up doing that as well.

Plate for sandwiches, bowls for everything else, except the annual roast dinner on Christmas Day when the plate warmer puts in an appearance.

I nearly always use a flattish bowl and have for years - I didn't realise I was trendy!

And I sit at a table when I eat.

Plate.

When on my own I always use a pasta bowl. It keeps the food much warmer than a plate. Glad to hear I’m trendy!

Yes Lucca I think you are right, and my daughter says whenever they eat out, it’s always a bowl that arrives with a small portion of a meal, she says it probably saves the pub or restaurant money.Not good if you are really hungry though.

I think bowls maybe encourage smaller portions ?

Obviously plates for “meat and two veg “

Bowls are the trendy thing I have noticed in tv dramas.
As so many now do not bother with eating at a table, simply scoffing from a bowl while sitting on the sofa, watching tv makes it easier for them.
I am not at all trendy and like a plate, knife and fork and eating a meal sitting at a table while chatting.

Bowls, I find them much easier for one handed eating.

I use flat bottom bowls 3/4 times a week for pasta and rice dishes or just a bowl of salad.

I probably only use flat plates once a week.
I now use flattish bowls (from M&S) and traditional pasta bowls most of the time now.

Never gave it a ought until I read this post. How things change?

And then, in a year or two, ‘bowls’ will be ‘out’, and ‘flat plates’ will be ‘in’ again.

And so it goes on…..

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I've started to use a flattish bowl instead of a plate now as I find that gravy and sauces stay put.

I suspect they don't mean bowls as in cereal type bowls but wide bottom bowls.

I tend to use a flattish bowl as it is smaller than my plates.

Soups and Pasta in a bowl, everything else goes onto a plate.

How can you cut things up in a bowl?

we have both but if it requires a knife and fork, rather than just a fork, then I put it on a plate
Pizza/quiche etc on a plate too