Plastic Plates

The Big Boy Tiny Girl Plate Update:

I hate plastic cups and plates.  It’s not so much the plates and cups but the material, which doesn’t dry well in the dishwasher.   We can run the dishwasher with the full dry cycle and they get more dry—aside from what resides in the wells where water sits stagnant—but they don’t get completely dry.   That cycle takes a lot more energy and time and doesn’t get everything dry even so, so we’ve abandoned it as a reasonable or useful option.

We instead use the quick wash, short, cycle which gets things clean but not dry, knowing we’ll need to let the dishes dry for some time with the dishwasher open before we put the dishes away.  Or we can hand dry everything, which neither my husband nor I prefer.  

At some point we’ll move away from plastic plates and cups but I didn’t think it would be soon, that is until this morning when my daughter asked for a, “big girl plate” for breakfast.    I was all about this as an idea and had her plate already served to her when my son said from upstairs, “and it would have to be a ‘big boy plate for me, mom’”.   I quickly moved his breakfast from the plastic plate I had prepared onto an adult plate and told him he had a, “big boy plate waiting for him when he got downstairs.”