Since we have family down this weekend and 12 for dinner Sam ordered four new dinner plates and four new side plates from M and S which arrived yesterday. Hells bells and buckets of blood have you seen the size of a standard dinner plate these days?
The side plates are the size of my Grandma's old dinner plates and the dinner plates bigger than her meat plate. I fear we are going to look a little stingy with portions if we have to use these new plates , or maybe claim it is nouvelle cuisine. lol 😁 No wonder people have trouble keeping weight off!
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Friday night Lasagne , or Mac and cheese for the veggies plus roast spuds, kale or runner beans. Cheescake to follow. Saturday morning full English breakfast ( we get through 4 doz eggs and I toast two white loafes over two days) . Saturday evening down to Tiffin the fantastic new Indian Street Food restaurant in Barnstaple but only eight of us as the boys plus two are drifting. Sunday morning full English again then they go home and we sleep. The AGA really works hard for its living. Sam has been cooking all morning whilst I washing up and vacuuming and dusting and cleaning the house to within an inch of its life. The following weekend at Patients Day will be a breeze in comparison.
“….and then we sleep” sounds about right. The menu is admirable and yummy. I love it all. Perhaps sometime this week I’d love to understand Patient’s Day.
8th October is the start of Heart Rhythm Congress 2023 in Birmingham (England) and the firsts day is always Patient's Day where there are no drug companies or technical firms presenting ( it is illegal for drug companies etc to interact with patients directly) . Lots of eminent professors , EPs and consultants give up their time to present on various subjects connected with AF, as well as the other aspects of arrhythmias which Arrhythmia Alliance deal with such as syncope and sudden adult death.
First AFA session in the afternoon is some bloke called Bob chatting to our CEO Trudie Lobhan about what no doubt I will soon learn but likely cover the forum.
With plates like that you need to serve some Green Giant. 😂 Hats off to you both for being good sports and hope you all have a fantastic get together. 🥳🥳🥳
Well- the sizes should be listed on the description- I bought some simple white glass plates from ikea for our everyday use and they are smaller and fine for all our meals. I know what you mean though ! But the plate doesn’t HAVE to be full….
Yes your right and my plate is not full but Bob's point is correct why make them so big in the first place,my Jamie oliver white side plate is twice as big as my old ones I might just use that as my dinner plate.
I think that's the point of the large plates, it's a styling thing.In the world of posh food and MandS and today's Instagram hype people love these plates so that they can create a picture of the food they are about to eat with a lovely clean plate framing it .
Apparently it makes your organic bangers and ten zillion root mash look amazing on your Facebook page!
I shouldn't complain.Since my heart issues meant I had to change from being a land artist to photography I've had a few commissions for food photography using these giant plates, stone slabs and even helium balloons to photograph people's food products so that they can charge three times as much for them. It does make a nice still life but it doesn't make the food taste any better!
Agreed! ☺️ I bought some recently and the dinner plates are too high for the dishwasher basket so I have to wash them up separately. They are pretty though so I will put up with it. With shrinkflation to pack sizes being utilised by a lot of food companies why are the plates getting bigger? 😁
Note to self,look for side plates lol.Did you know in the big houses of times gone by guests would be weighed on entering then leaving after a weekend stay.Think yours will pass muster.
Yes back in the 60's a standard dinner plate I believe was 10" now I think some of them are up to 12 or 14" Ours are far too big but we never fill them! I feel ill if I see a heaped up dinner plate like my Nan used to do for my Dad - thing is he ate it all and never went over 9st 4lb I still have my great grandma's dinner plates - no used as decoration - now youve started this I am going to measure them.
Fancy borrowing my new wine glasses to go with your plates, Bob? My husband can’t stop teasing me about them.
Our local tapas place has fancy schmancy big glasses for cocktails, sangria and also wine. I thought I’d like some - especially for when our more ‘exuberant’ friends visit and I watch in horror when they wave their glasses full of red wine around.
It’s a joke in our family that I’ve never really got the hang of metric - I’m a lbs and pints person. The glasses I wanted were very expensive, until I found some online that were really reasonable and well reviewed. I ordered 2 packs of 6 and when delivered thought the packaging was vast. The glasses are lovely but 850 ml each ….. Cheers!
I buy many household items and all our clothes at the Secours Populaire a nationwide chain of huge charity shops . There I can still get old fashioned size dinner plates . The only new one I have had recently was a free one with stamps collected at the supermarket. It was enormous and too big even to give to my husband. It sits unused at the bottom of the plate pile . I always eat off an entrée plate which is between a side plate and a dinner plate. Nobody uses sideplates here though you can buy them. It's considered OK to get crumbs all over the table and in old fashioned restaurants the waiter brushes them away before dessert with a special implement. I agree with others- this huge plate business is a style thing. Wine is sold here in measures of 10ml or 12.5 ml so you know how much is in your glass.
That’s quite funny as I bought M&S budget pack of 4 dinner plates, 4 side plates and 4 bowls £20. They are really small. I was quite pleased as have been trying to find small dinner plates for some time and these are really small!! Diet here I come 😂
"Hells bells and buckets of blood" gave me a giggle! It was an accurate response though. "Supersize me" has now extended to everything. I have been using small (dessert) plates and bowls for a number of years now to help me control my eating (this includes avoiding seconds). When I do need to use a big plate it really is hard resisting overfilling it. On those rare occasions when we have people over I use paper plates - not only are there fewer dishes to wash, but they tend to be smaller. Good luck with your dinner!
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