To want pasta bowls

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So boring but why oh why do dinner sets come with cereal bowls and not pasta bowls?? Who tf cares if your cereal bowls match?
Any ideas where I can get a decent set with pasta bowls included and not break the bank?
All my dishes are mismatched and I'm tired of pretending it's on purpose when people come over but i cant afford much at the moment.
Am I the only one who would rather pasta bowls br included?

Our dinner set is just plain white, from John Lewis. I never have the pasta bowls out at the same time as anything else, so I just got a white Denby set which look fine with them.

I love my pasta bowls. They get way more use than any of my other crockery.

Marks and spencer have loads of sets of 4 pasta bowls starting from about £8 a set.

We usually buy supermarket boxes with plate, side and cereal bowl and then buy the matching pasta bowls which are sold singly.

Ours are white and were 4 for £8 from Morrisons, bargain! Used almost every day!

I never knew that either - excited now lol!! Some of my 30+ year old plates need replacing. I love Denby! I collected it piece by piece, usually when it was on sale somewhere. I've lovely over-to-tableware, salt and pepper etc that they don't do any more. I've got Greenwich. I got my kitchen tiles to match... I love the pasta bowls - you need some in your life absolutely!!

Tesco have some nice, simple, white pasta bowls - I actually eat everything thing out of them as I like them so much!

Like these but in white...

Tesco Pasta Bowls

I saw some nice ones in the M&S sale at the weekend. Really wish I had bought them now.

All my sets are mismatched too, in sets of fours.

I know I will be a grown up when I have 10 x place settings, including dinner plates, pasta bowls, cereal bowls and side plates.

But it needs to be a set I love.

I got some from Habitat in the sale. They look lovely but I need indestructible ones for my DH. He has already smashed one and chipped another.

£3.50 each on ebay Portland pasta bowls

Morrisons do nice ones, you buy individually but they are 4 for £10. Dinner and side blates, pasta bowls and cereal bowls. Grey glaze effect. That way if you smash them like I always seem do, you can get replacements easily.

And some more: -

www.dunnesstores.com/search?keywords=pasta

I love my pasta bowls, but I’d still rather sets came with cereal bowls. I’m more likely to want them to match plates than I am to want pasta bowls to match plates, and pasta bowls can make nice sets in their own right.

www.marksandspencer.com/set-of-4-pasta-bowls/p/hbp60553531

I recently ordered these from H&M. They are single items so you can order as many as you like and pick and chose from the other matching items. Very reasonable too. I bought 10 of them plus the same amount of side plates, dinner plates, bowls and mugs. Came to about £135 for the lot,

I am another who sticks to plain white- have done for years.
Breakages are inevitable in use, plain white crockery is everywhere.
I like Ikea best- they have a very large selection of plain white crockery, including different bowls.

I just buy what I need, sets don't have the right quantity often

Love my pasta bowls. They don't match anything else but they do have an elephant on them. From M&S and were quite cheap.

I got mine from Jysk, they sell each item separately so I just made my own set

We have the Denby Studio pasta bowls which are beautiful and which we use for every possible meal!

But I looked them up online the other day and they've doubled in price over the last few years - so I can't really recommend them for that reason.

They really are lovely but I wouldn't/couldn't buy them at the current price.

Will look out on eBay etc for odd ones perhaps.

We , too stick to plain white ; otherwise one would be buying new sets on a regular basis to make up for breakages.

It honestly took me about 3 years to find new pasta bowls I liked because I like the larger ones with a rim and for the longest time all I could find were small, round ones without any rim.

Denby to the rescue. The Everyday James Martin ones like a PP mentioned are perfect. Really nice weight, I haven't broken one yet which is a miracle for me, and the perfect size. Also great for stews, curries or other rice dishes too.

I bought my lovely rainbow pasta bowls in 1998 ( they were unusual then) when we had a dresser built to match the kitchen. I fell in love with them and never regretted them. 14 years later I dropped and broke one but contacted the original pottery who made me a replacement!
So they have given me 24 years of joy!

Another vote for the plain white Tesco ones. these