peabay
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Post by peabay on Nov 20, 2019 18:00:50 GMT
It's about family and togetherness and being grateful for what we have - I say use paper plates, use plastic plates, use fondue forks out of a communal pot. Whatever works for your family - no judgement from me!
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Post by papersilly on Nov 20, 2019 18:07:55 GMT
i decided to do this. we have more people this year so it will be better. i want some nice thanksgiving patterned, large oval size plates, bowls, and small plates. i should be able to find some.
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Post by lisacharlotte on Nov 20, 2019 18:18:28 GMT
It’s just me, DH and DS. We use the china. I do the majority of the cooking with help from DS. DH does the cleanup. The cooks don’t clean, they relax after eating. At my MIL’s it’s always a formal table and everyone pitches in with the cleaning except her. That’s also part of the holiday and tradition.
If paper plates are your tradition more power to you. However, if the cook is cleaning, that’s WRONG!
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Post by lisacharlotte on Nov 20, 2019 18:21:22 GMT
RE: owning china. DH bought china before we met when he was single.
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Post by Merge on Nov 20, 2019 18:23:41 GMT
Not only am I willing to use paper plates... ...I am also having the whole meal prepared by Wegmans and reheating it. I’m adding a few items but the turkey, potatoes, stuffing, all of it is coming pre-made. It’s a special occasion but it is a huge amount of work that mostly falls on me, I’m doing everything I can to make it easy for me. You go, girl. One hundred percent support.
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Post by Merge on Nov 20, 2019 18:28:42 GMT
What the heck is fall china? Different crockery for different seasons?? I'm going to plead the 5th on that one. I went through a phase a while back. My mom's brown and orange china is my Thanksgiving china. My grandmother's daisy design for Easter. Christmas china I purchased for Christmas. And then another set that Pioneer Woman put out a couple of years ago that was so pretty I had to have it. It's good for Mother's Day or other spring/summer occasions. Fiesta in multiple colors for everyday. It's a sickness.
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Post by janeinbama on Nov 20, 2019 18:50:57 GMT
We do desserts and appetizers on paper plates. I had china boxed up for 20 years and now that I can get to it, have used it for holidays the past 15 years. My mother refuses to eat off paper plates - can't say that I blame her either.
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Post by psoccer on Nov 20, 2019 20:27:17 GMT
What the heck is fall china? Different crockery for different seasons?? [ Yes. When my mom died I took most of her dishes and got rid of my chipped set from Mervyns. She had beautiful grey and pink, which is great for Easter and some dansk white plates with fish etched in them ( I just use for everyday) and some pretty red and white, for Christmas I’d like something fall colored so brown, dark orange but I haven’t found anything yet so paper plates.
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Nov 20, 2019 20:57:39 GMT
P.S. - what is flatware? Serving platters etc? It's been answered a bunch already, but flatware = cutlery. I have stainless steel for everyday and several sterling sets for nicer. If they find me a prescription medicine for this, I'll share.
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Post by supersoda on Nov 20, 2019 21:26:22 GMT
I am reluctantly using paper plates because we’re expecting 16 and I only have service for 10. But I got fancy and bought chargers to put under the heavy-duty paper plates. 😂
So I guess I’m in the “do what works best for you” camp.
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Post by dewryce on Nov 20, 2019 23:16:12 GMT
What the heck is fall china? Different crockery for different seasons?? I'm going to plead the 5th on that one. I went through a phase a while back. My mom's brown and orange china is my Thanksgiving china. My grandmother's daisy design for Easter. Christmas china I purchased for Christmas. And then another set that Pioneer Woman put out a couple of years ago that was so pretty I had to have it. It's good for Mother's Day or other spring/summer occasions. Fiesta in multiple colors for everyday. It's a sickness. I feel ya. I have been thinking about getting 2 settings of different China patterns we love just to mix it up for dinner. We have fiesta for daily, and we have our wedding China which I still love but we don’t use much. Not sure why I think we would use random China any more but I want it!
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Post by birdgate on Nov 20, 2019 23:21:05 GMT
China for dinner and holiday themed square paper plates for the dessert and appetizer tables. My mom makes a TON of them. When I have a second Thanksgiving I use my orange bracket shaped QVC Temptations plates. I use a set of colorful kitschy Jesus dessert plates from the 99 cents store for Christmas too. Our family plates are too heavy for paper.
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Post by maryland on Nov 21, 2019 0:03:14 GMT
My mom uses nice heavy duty paper plates for Christmas dinner. I know many think it's tacky, but we don't care! My family lives 5 hrs. away and my brothers family lives an hour away, and she would prefer that we all spend time together instead of doing dishes. We usually only see each other at Christmas. I prefer it this way too, because I am the only one who helps clean up after dinner (all the bowls, serving dishes, etc.). If I had all those extra plates and utensils to clean up too, all by myself, I would not be thrilled.
For Thanksgiving, we are using my husband's family's lennox christmas dishes. It means I will be doing a lot of dishes after dinner (they can't go in the dishwasher). But I am so happy not to travel 10 hrs. (roundtrip) for the holiday. And it's only the second time in 24 yrs. that we get to host a major holiday, so I am so excited! And we will only have 7 of us, so not bad!
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Post by compeateropeator on Nov 21, 2019 0:30:33 GMT
Just curious...for all those who responded that they would never use disposable plates for a holiday: how do you gather enough place settings when you have 25 or more people?
Do you rent? If you rent what is the availability during the holidays? Do you have to reserve a long time in advance?
Do you have people bring a plate as some have suggested?
Do you have enough place settings for 25 + people?
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Post by alexa11 on Nov 21, 2019 3:23:33 GMT
There will only be 4 of us, so we will use the china. But my little turkey breast is going in the CROCKPOT. I guess that's another thread though...
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Post by lucyg on Nov 21, 2019 4:34:06 GMT
Just curious...for all those who responded that they would never use disposable plates for a holiday: how do you gather enough place settings when you have 25 or more people?
Do you rent? If you rent what is the availability during the holidays? Do you have to reserve a long time in advance?
Do you have people bring a plate as some have suggested?
Do you have enough place settings for 25 + people?
Well, we’ve never had more than about 25 people. But any of us alone (me, my sister, our SIL) each have enough china in various patterns to feed well over 25 people. We have wedding china and sets we bought later on when we got bored with the wedding china and sets we inherited from older family members. I use my grandmother’s later-in-life Royal Copenhagen for everyday. Most of the pieces are chipped because it really shouldn’t go in the dishwasher, but it goes in anyway. My sister has my mom’s later-in-life set, those botanical things from Germany, I think? (mom moved on to much-later-in-life china, ha ha) We have a few pieces of our great-aunt’s Limoges. We have Royal Winton chintzware we bought at the factory store in Stoke-on-Trent and tea sets from the Empress Hotel in Victoria, BC. We buy odd pieces in thrift shops and antique stores. I had my other sister’s Johnson Bros. wedding stoneware after she got tired of it, then eventually I got tired of it, too, and we shipped it back to the East Coast and she’s using it again. Out in the garage is the bistro-style stuff I bought from Williams-Sonoma back in the ’90s, but I’m seriously considering bringing it back inside and filling in the missing pieces. I need more pasta bowls. I love pasta bowls. It’s in our blood. The need for more and newer (sometimes older) china.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Nov 21, 2019 4:55:14 GMT
With everyone who hosts and says they don't want to waste time doing the dishes, why aren't others doing the dishes? My mom does the bulk of the cooking but has 3 daughters, 3 sons-in-law, 4 grown grandchildren who can do it. Thank you! Finally, someone said it. Why on earth are the cooks the ones cleaning up? If you have so many people that you are cooking for that there aren’t enough plates, or it’s too much trouble to use plates, surely that’s enough people to take a hand at washing up! I’m all for doing what works for your family. I’m in the “plates are the easiest thing to wash” category and I have about 2 dozen white plates with some filigree on them to supplement when I don’t have enough plates. But if you are hosting 30+ people, I can see why you would want to use disposable plates. Or if you are a more casual family. But really, if you aren’t the one cooking, help clean up! And gar , flatware is forks, spoons, knives, etc. It’s not technically silverware because a lot isn’t silver. I chose to get 40+ place settings of flatware vs silver because I knew I’d need it. My flatware is over 30 years old and it still looks new. In my experience there are some people who are very particular when it comes to their “good” dishes and don’t want anything to get broken. Normally my inclination is to help clean up when I haven’t had to cook the main part of the meal. As weird as it sounds, I have actually been chased out of the kitchen more than once because the host didn’t want anyone else to mess with the china after the meal was over. My guess is that they have a harder to find pattern and have discovered that other people just aren’t as careful with their stuff as they themselves are. I always still offer though.
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Post by compeateropeator on Nov 21, 2019 4:59:35 GMT
Just curious...for all those who responded that they would never use disposable plates for a holiday: how do you gather enough place settings when you have 25 or more people?
Do you rent? If you rent what is the availability during the holidays? Do you have to reserve a long time in advance?
Do you have people bring a plate as some have suggested?
Do you have enough place settings for 25 + people?
Well, we’ve never had more than about 25 people. But any of us alone (me, my sister, our SIL) each have enough china in various patterns to feed well over 25 people. We have wedding china and sets we bought later on when we got bored with the wedding china and sets we inherited from older family members. I use my grandmother’s later-in-life Royal Copenhagen for everyday. Most of the pieces are chipped because it really shouldn’t go in the dishwasher, but it goes in anyway. My sister has my mom’s later-in-life set, those botanical things from Germany, I think? (mom moved on to much-later-in-life china, ha ha) We have a few pieces of our great-aunt’s Limoges. We have Royal Winton chintzware we bought at the factory store in Stoke-on-Trent and tea sets from the Empress Hotel in Victoria, BC. We buy odd pieces in thrift shops and antique stores. I had my other sister’s Johnson Bros. wedding stoneware after she got tired of it, then eventually I got tired of it, too, and we shipped it back to the East Coast and she’s using it again. Out in the garage is the bistro-style stuff I bought from Williams-Sonoma back in the ’90s, but I’m seriously considering bringing it back inside and filling in the missing pieces. I need more pasta bowls. I love pasta bowls. It’s in our blood. The need for more and newer (sometimes older) china. Thanks for the response.
I guess my family aren't china/dinnerware people because I am not sure how many of us have more than a set of everyday dishes (i.e me ). I have lots of cool pottery serving dishes but only one set of actual dinnerware. I have to say that I wouldn't be all that excited to have to pack them up to bring them to our dinner along with everything else. And then I can't see it looking elegant with the hodge podge of dishes that I am sure would show up...I think we are better off with paper for the few holidays we are 30+ strong. hahaha.
I get why people want to use china it just doesn't make sense for our family holiday. I was just surprised that some people were so adamant that they would never use disposable, but I am all for what makes someone happy and works for their situation.
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Post by 50offscrapper on Nov 21, 2019 5:39:05 GMT
My mom brought up this idea and to tell you the truth, it sounds awesome. Less clean up for us. What would you think of paper plates for Thanksgiving? Whatever works for you all!
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Post by Belia on Nov 21, 2019 5:41:05 GMT
Nope.
That said, I'll quote the beautiful and hilarious Amy Poehler: "Good for you! Not for me."
Meaning- do what you want & it's all good. I would never, though.
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Post by 50offscrapper on Nov 21, 2019 5:44:52 GMT
What the heck is fall china? Different crockery for different seasons?? Anyone who votes no, volunteers to do the dishes! That's what dishwashers are for aren't they? As someone else said, the plates are the easiest thing to wash up so even if you used paper ones you've still got a multitude of pots, pans and utensils to deal with so I wouldn't for that reason. They're the easiest thing to chuck in the dishwasher. Some fine china isn’t recommended to be put in the dishwasher .
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Post by gar on Nov 21, 2019 7:36:49 GMT
What the heck is fall china? Different crockery for different seasons?? That's what dishwashers are for aren't they? As someone else said, the plates are the easiest thing to wash up so even if you used paper ones you've still got a multitude of pots, pans and utensils to deal with so I wouldn't for that reason. They're the easiest thing to chuck in the dishwasher. Some fine china isn’t recommended to be put in the dishwasher . Maybe some china, yes, but the majority of it is fine in the dishwasher. Make sure plates etc don't touch each other and don't use an overly strong cycle etc. I think a lot of people assume you can't put it in the d/w just because it's china but mostly it's ok.
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Post by Why on Nov 21, 2019 9:34:56 GMT
If your china has gold or silver trim it will likely fade in the dishwasher. Most dishwasher soap is pretty caustic.
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Post by monklady123 on Nov 21, 2019 10:04:57 GMT
There will only be 4 of us, so we will use the china. But my little turkey breast is going in the CROCKPOT. I guess that's another thread though... And a sub-thread of that will be for those of us who are going to do the turkey breast in the INSTANT POT. lol. It's only two of us this year and I don't even like turkey, so I suggested to dh that we try it in the IP as an experiment.
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Post by gar on Nov 21, 2019 10:09:29 GMT
If your china has gold or silver trim it will likely fade in the dishwasher. Most dishwasher soap is pretty caustic. It probably would over time, yes.
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Post by paigepea on Nov 21, 2019 10:51:14 GMT
We don’t do thanksgiving but for big holiday dinners of over 20 people I try to hire my cleaning lady to come in and do the dishes. She likes the extra money and I get to sit and enjoy my company. It feels like a major luxury when she’s free to come and help.
When she can’t make it I have a routine for the dishes that works. My dishwasher holds a complete service for 18 - soup bowls, dinner plates and dessert plates plus cutlery, serving pieces and a couple of serving dishes. I tend to wash the serving dishes and crystal and fit everything else into the dishwasher.
My dishwasher has a China setting and our China, which has a ring of platinum, has an approved detergent. I feel comfortable putting it in the dishwasher.
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Post by jennyap on Nov 21, 2019 11:29:25 GMT
Just out of interest jennyap and lainey - do you know anyone who uses disposable plates etc for Christmas or such occasions? I haven't come across it among people I know but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen so was just wondering My brother does from time to time. Not sure about Christmas, but certainly other family gatherings. Mainly because almost half the group are 10 and under! Just curious...for all those who responded that they would never use disposable plates for a holiday: how do you gather enough place settings when you have 25 or more people?
Do you rent? If you rent what is the availability during the holidays? Do you have to reserve a long time in advance? Do you have people bring a plate as some have suggested?
Do you have enough place settings for 25 + people? I'd never have 25 or more people. I doubt they'd even fit in my house... well maybe if some sat upstairs on the beds
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Post by candygurl on Nov 21, 2019 13:25:12 GMT
Yes because we have 35 people coming and we don’t even have enough China for that. No one has ever complained and honestly we don’t really care as we are usually the ones having to do the dishes! We use to use glass plates but as our family grows we use the nicer plastic plates from the party store.
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Post by librarylady on Nov 24, 2019 0:42:52 GMT
i decided to do this. we have more people this year so it will be better. i want some nice thanksgiving patterned, large oval size plates, bowls, and small plates. i should be able to find some. You can find that at Big Lots as well as other places.
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Nov 24, 2019 1:03:09 GMT
Do you have enough place settings for 25 + people? Well, I'm one that has many sets of dishes both formal and casual... so yes. I have 23 dinner plates in my everyday alone. If I do have that many people, I set multiple tables so mostly each table gets it own pattern and related table decor. My dining room table can seat 10. The breakfast room seats 6. Then we might employ various folding tables as needed -- but we can really only accommodate three comfortably. One six-footer and two card tables so that brings the total seated to 30 seated. More than that? We'd have to abandon plans for any formality and resort to food people could eat off plates on their laps. Edited to add -- we've only once had that many so that's how I know exactly how many I can fit!
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