Plates or bowls for everyday eating?

Years ago I loved the shallow 8 inch flat bottomed bowls a restaurant used for salads. I searched and bought them. Now when alone I use them for my meals - (like small plate dining), with the exception of soup, which goes in a big mug.

When entertaining - all the good dinnerware comes out.
Cheers!
USA Gundy

Proper flat plates here for a 'plateable' meal - salads, pasta, curry, bolognese and chilli are served in a a shallow dish, soup and cereals in a bowl, sandwiches on a side plate.
Everyone sits to the table regardless of the meal, no one has a bowl on a tray in front of the tv, not even the GC.

It must be twenty years since I bought some shallow pasta bowls to use just for pasta dishes.
In recent years, they have become my preferred 'everyday' crockery for all sorts of meals, especially runny ones such as stews, but also those served either gravy or a sauce.

Practicality its a bowl for soup flat plate for meals at the table if we are eating together.
If I have a snack it’s often standing in the kitchen as my mum did while I prepare the meal for later. I spend most of my day in the kitchen unless I am going somewhere.
I am always chopping pickling baking squirrel and bird watching not necessarily in that order.

I use plates, bowls, pasta dishes and large 'Soup plates' as they are described for casseroles. I also have far too much china, but much of it goes back fifty years.

Plates, at the table. Also using a knife a fork properly.
I taught my children to do this too and it really irritates me when so few seem able to do it theses days. I see it a bit like a right of passage like learning to tie shoe laces.

A plate for anything that needs a knife & fork, and wide shallow pasta bowls for tagines, curry, pasta etc.

Plates.
I feel like a child if I have a bowl, plus I can't cut things up in a bowl.

I have a couple of deep plates with wide rims - a cross between a plate and a bowl - that I use for pasta and stews. Eating anywhere but at the table is a recipe for disaster for me!😳

Plates, obvs. unless its anything like one of my mega-thick soups.

Wonder what King Charles uses?

Hmm, let me guess.

Don’t suppose he does the washing up either.

Im using pasta bowls more now that I’ve lost so much of my sight. Happy to think that Im being trendy.

Bowls can be used at the table - I always use bowls but never "scoff from a bowl while sitting on the sofa" .

I use flattish bowls from Ikea, for almost all meals. Large flat plates only for something like quiche and salad.

Prentice

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.

Me too. I hate not eating at the table

I’m a bowl user a lot of the time, different sizes as appropriate for whatever I’m eating.
And I’m another all white crockery person, albeit there’s a range of shapes, sizes, etc. The only exception is mugs, all of mine are patterned apart from two plain red ones (inside and out) which I should just include in my next charity shop donation, as the tea/coffee/whatever just doesn’t taste as nice when I drink from them. Obviously all in my mind I know 😁

Plates for most things, large shallow bowls for pasta. It would never occur to me to do anything else. We seem to manage to keep stews and gravy within bounds on a plate...

We eat at the table.

The pasta bowls are good for making and serving a mixed salad for two in.

I don't have any strong views about bowls but my brother in law can't stand them. He says he ate from a bowl when he was baby and probably will again in his dotage but while he has strength he will use a plate.
We have bowls for stir fry type things, curry, spag bol and stew.

Doodledog

Bowls for most things, but plates if the food has to be cut up. Most of what we eat is forkable, so easier to eat from a bowl, and it keeps the food warmer, I think.

Macaroni cheese, curry, casserole - things like that are better in a bowl, IMO. Sunday roast (nut or meat), or fish and chips need plates, so you can cut the food as you eat it.

My only real 'rule' is that I only buy white crockery. I don't like seeing patterns under the food, and white will always (at least nearly) match other white things.

Snap! My crockery is all plain white, although different brands and styles. It is mostly bone china because that's much lighter, and I'm very miffed with John Lewis because they used to do a sort of basics range of bone china and have discontinued it. I have broken a few items and would like to have replaced them. White is white is white, so items from different ranges happily get used together.

Bowls for most things, but plates if the food has to be cut up. Most of what we eat is forkable, so easier to eat from a bowl, and it keeps the food warmer, I think.

Macaroni cheese, curry, casserole - things like that are better in a bowl, IMO. Sunday roast (nut or meat), or fish and chips need plates, so you can cut the food as you eat it.

My only real 'rule' is that I only buy white crockery. I don't like seeing patterns under the food, and white will always (at least nearly) match other white things.

In summer, most of my meals are salads. I throw everything directly into a bowl, add a bit of dressing and toss everything. IMO it tastes better all mixed up and it's easier to toss in a bowl rather than on a plate.

The only meal I regularly eat from a plate is a bacon and egg breakfast. I don't eat pork chops and hardly ever have a meat and two veg meal.

Plates, always round.
We are old fashioned and always eat at a table.
Soup,cereals and some puddings from a bowl and at a push pasta.
Everything else on a plate.

What about meals you have to cut up to eat? It's all very well for stews or stir fries but what about pork chops, sausages and the like? Or are we going to follow the Americans and have our meat cut up before serving, like toddlers?

Hadn't thought about a bowl being a good way to control portion size; that's a good tip.

G'children say they only eat at the table when they are with us or it's a special occasion at home, so bowls make sense.

Guess I'll have to get hip and happening!