Small dinner plates

[Babysharkdoodoodood]

Help!

We're trying to lose weight as a family but the giant white IKEA plates make the portions look so tiny. They're not. There's enough food, but it just looks so disappointing. My mum's gradually built up a collection of little European style plates. (I'm no good with visualising dimensions). But she got hers in dribs and drabs via charity shops.

I want a size between standard side and dinner plate and pretty, rather than white. With ideally matching bits and not stupidly expensive. Found some lovely ones on Amazon but £75 for 5 plates!

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Terracotta-Small-Dinner-Plates-European/dp/B00ZA51UDG/ref=sr11_5?dchild=1&keywords=cactus+ceramic+plates&qid=1611005601&sr=8-5

Can anyone help?

I buy vintage dinner plates. They're much smaller and cheaper. Ebay generally have beautiful ones if your charity shops aren't open.

Why pay so much when you can get gorgeous ones online.

Look for salad plates. We have smaller dinner plates from John Lewis and Sainsburys. 23cm diameter

You need ones with a wide border which only leaves a smaller eating section.

Have a look at the dunelm dotty 12 piece set. It nay not be your taste but that's the type of plate I mean. They definitely make your dinner look bigger.

salad or fish plates is what my mother would ask for

A few of the supermarkets have decent ranges of crockery, even if you only get half a dozen to see how much you do use them and then get swanky ones!

you are probably looking for something about 7-8 inches I would guess.

I want the same! I thought I had found smaller plates on line, but when they arrived they way they were shaped meant that they were actually far too small for dinner
plates. so my search continues. I have some
Picnic plates that are the perfect size , but I can’t eat off melamine every day!

Breakfast plates were usually 8-10 inches, so a bit smaller than a dinner plate and larger than a side plate. There are lots of shite ones about but I'm not seeing any with white China and a decorated rim on s as an on. I'd concur with a pp who suggested vintage.

Denby do smaller plates. The internal rim is the same size as my plate from the 80s although that plate's external rim is the same size as my full size plate.

It does make a difference!

I second denby plates. We have the medium dinner plates and they're just right

I did the same a few years ago, and have a lovely mismatched set of small dinner plates now, all from a local charity shop. If you don't mind them not matching, I'd look there as soon as they open again, OP.

I use pasta plates/bowls. Just the right size.

Charity shops sometimes have full sets - I got mine there. Ebay's a good source as well. Just remember that gold rims and dishwashers clash.

I bought a set of 6 from Amazon. Mine were £20. It's amazing how full you feel with a smaller plate piled high.

Sometimes one of the boys has a larger plate and it is double, double the amount of food.

It's helped me lose weight.

Try Zara Home

Is just under 8" too small? Maxwell Williams boho do a set of four, 20cm across. It's £18 at home essentials, each plate is a different design.

I have these and looooove them. They're just over 8in and we find them a perfect size. We got smaller plates for the same reason as you and now regular plates seem insane!

I use the pasta bowls from IKEA. Made the switch a few years ago and they hold a decent amount of food.
The massive plates I’ve not got out the cupboard in a decade!

Thanks. I'll look some of these up

@Took
They are beautiful. May I ask where they are from?

@Babysharkdoodoodood

Have a look wherever you're getting your food shopping from. Tesco have some called Sorrento that look quite nice on line. The smaller if the two sizes look like the sort of size you're after.

Cheap & probably pretty indestructible.

Asda and sainsbury sell a smaller plate, that you'd expect a "lite bite" lunch to be served on.

Another vote for denby. Medium plates from there will be perfect

@washitonia They are Sara Miller cake plates that I got from Amazon. They seem to be out of stock there but they seem to be in stock elsewhere.

You could buy loads and then open your house for a party when covid restrictions are over, singing 'who knew we had a thousand salad plates?'

I use pasta bowls, will look unto smaller plates.

1970s dinner services from charity shops and eBay are interesting to compare the size of all items, as well as the plates being so much smaller the cups are as well. It shows all our portion sizes have grown.