Paper plates OK for Thanksgiving?

[Anonymous]

Buy the 4 plates at $1 each and then donate them to Good will. Or, put them in a box and tuck away until the next time you serve a crowd. I"m not a fan of paper plates unless it's a sandwich or something.

[Anonymous]

OP here. Thanks follow r the thoughts! My overall meal/decor/dress will be on the more formal side, so I decided to buy a few more plates. I'll do the plain plates for kids under 12, and China for everyone else.

[Anonymous]

People should do whatever they want. We usually have about 20 people (including kids, who are now older teenagers or college-aged). We use real plates (not China, though). When everyone's done eating, my two sons collect everyone's plate/utensils, scrape, and immediately load/run in the dishwasher while we're still sitting around the table talking. It works out great! I find the clean up of the pots, pans and platters to be the pain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd rather attend a laid back meal on disposable plates any day rather than a stuffy formal meal. That was never the point of Thanksgiving.

Yes, when I think of 18th and 19th century solemn religious holidays that follow fast days, I think "laid back."

Not PP, but putting aside the fact that it's currently 2016, Thanksgiving is also not a religious holiday.

In your family. It is in other families. And that's okay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd rather attend a laid back meal on disposable plates any day rather than a stuffy formal meal. That was never the point of Thanksgiving.

Yes, when I think of 18th and 19th century solemn religious holidays that follow fast days, I think "laid back."

Not PP, but putting aside the fact that it's currently 2016, Thanksgiving is also not a religious holiday.

In your family. It is in other families. And that's okay.

Sure, in the same way that your family can decide to celebrate Arbor Day or Presidents' Day as a religious holiday, you can decide that Thanksgiving is religious as well. But in our common, accepted reality, Thanksgiving is not actually a religious holiday.

[Anonymous]

Give paper to the kids, if there are any. Give the rest real plates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Give paper to the kids, if there are any. Give the rest real plates.

OP has already said what she is going to do.

I hate thread-piler-on-ers. Five pages in, and you think someone hasn't already suggested this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Give paper to the kids, if there are any. Give the rest real plates.

OP has already said what she is going to do.

I hate thread-piler-on-ers. Five pages in, and you think someone hasn't already suggested this?

Your post, on the other hand, is really contributing to this thread in a meaningful way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Give paper to the kids, if there are any. Give the rest real plates.

OP has already said what she is going to do.

I hate thread-piler-on-ers. Five pages in, and you think someone hasn't already suggested this?

Your post, on the other hand, is really contributing to this thread in a meaningful way.

+1

[Anonymous]

Paper is fine, but I'd go with the sturdier ones.

[Anonymous]

I was short on plates for Christmas, so I bought cute plates for the kids table.

I wouldn't use paper unless everyone was having paper and it was buffet style. Either buy different plates for the kids, or buy plain white ones from ikea or crate and barrel.

Festive paper plates are fine for dessert.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thanks follow r the thoughts! My overall meal/decor/dress will be on the more formal side, so I decided to buy a few more plates. I'll do the plain plates for kids under 12, and China for everyone else.

I think that was a good move.