How do you serve dinner

Queenie

Newbie06 wrote:

Middle Class / Upper Class use bowss at the table, Working class plate it up!!!!

I'm the latter, but live with a middle - amazing the differences we encounter in everyday routines!!

And use arrows to eat it up with? (I'm only teasing)

Welcome Newbie06 :hello:

Ticklemouse

I tend to plate it up in the kitchen and if anyone wants any more - then they go to the kitchen and get somemore. I know how much everyone will eat so there's very little wastage - if there is then Mr TM is a human vacuum cleaner (or should that be garbage disposal?). Better he eats what DS2 won't than pick at the remains of the meat etc in the kitchen.

We also always eat at the table, not on our laps.

Like others - 'high days and holidays' - the best china comes out and so do the serving plates and dishes.

(Ok, so tonight we had pizza and I sliced it up and put it all on a serving plate so everyone could choose there own. There's always an exception, isn't there :rotfl: )

Lady_E

We must be dead common then - I dish up in the kitchen, and I serve onto laps . My only excuse is we are having the kitchen done, but it has been like that for months .

thriftlady_2

I serve from bowls at the table,but of course it makes more washing up,but then I don't do the washing up

I read somewhere that children as young as 3 should be encouraged to help themselves from serving bowls.They are supposed to take just what they are able to eat.Tried it - didn't work.Youngest (dd) took huge amounts of everything and just messed with it making it impossible to salvage,middle one didn't take enough to keep him going and eldest took too much meat and made himself ill.So now I'm in charge,I sometimes let OH help himself :rotfl:

Becles

Half and half!

The main food gets plated up in the kitchen, but we have side dishes in the centre of the table.

We always eat at the table as I can't stand eating off my lap in front of the TV! OH prefers the table too.

SueRob_2

served in bowl on the table her, but having lodgers, it means they aren't faced with a plateful of something they don't like.
Sue

abck9fran

I serve up (NOT on the HUGE big white plates I mistakenly bought from Matalan - take far too much food to even look like a decent serving). Kids are allowed to turn down one of the two veg, but not both. Rarely have any left over, but those we do go in the dogs bowl - never had any complaints from the 4 legged members of the family

joannasmum

I serve up of plates and unfortunately we have to eat on off our knee as my sister is currently using our dinning room as a bedroom. Hopefully she will either move out soon or we will get a smaller table that will fit in the living room.

Penny-Pincher!!

Although our kitchen is a good size, I dont have a dining table and chairs...so its laps for us and trays:rolleyes: we're hopefully getting our conservatory later in the year and that will be our dining room....cant wait!!!

I serve on the plates with meat, spuds and veg in sections IYKWIM. Only time ATM that I really serve in dishes is if we do a buffet style dinner if we have friends round.

When we get the "dining room", it will probably be served the same...LOL.

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smokey112

depends on what we have most nights I will plate everything up as I know portion sizes for us so we have v little leftovers if any
If I make say fajitas we make our own up as OH likes his made slightly different from me
If friends are over then it is usually put in serving dishes.

most nights we eat on our laps but do have dining table and chairs