Childrens' dishes

[Kleine Hexe]

I want to get rid of *all* the plastic dishes my kids use. What do you use for your dc? I was thinking that stuff.... oh geesh....I can't think of the name. Starts with a "c".....

Anyway, ideas for plates, bowls, cups, etc greatly appreciated

Corelle! That's it. Man, I can never remember that name.

[lucyem]

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I would like to hear what others do. We use plastic for lack of anything else. At least one plate is flung per meal and the last thing I need is broken dishes on the floor.

[mightymoo]

I just give them the same plates as us. I have had a few bowls broken, but no plates. The bowls were I think all but one accidents (not purposely flung). Honestly, they just don't fling a heavy ceramic plate the way they would a plastic one.

[SAHMinHawaii]

What about bamboo? I have seen them at Ross and marshalls if you dont want to order. For cups..stainless steel!

[Honeybee'smama]

Just so you know Correll is hard to break, not impossible, and when it does break, it breaks into lots of small shards. Now ds has thrown Correll bowls and plates on hard floors many times and it has only broken twice, but when it did the clean up was a pain, and I worried for awhile about glass slivers.

[benharperfan]

Cost Plus World Market has some great reusable bamboo dishes. Perfect sized for toddlers, IMO also.

We use Corelle....holds up great on my ceramic tile!

[Kleine Hexe]

Yeah, I have one corelle bowl and three plates. The other bowl was broken (by me!) and the other dishes have been dropped. They hold up pretty well. I'll take the risk of the breaking over using plastic.

I stayed up last night and put all the plastic stuff in bags to donate. Once I get replacement containers for all my food storage containers those are going to.

I'll start looking for bamboo dishes. Marshalls, right? I've been using the mugs from the camping section as cups for the kiddos. I just don't know if they are dishwasher safe.

[Leta]

We use these as all family, everyday dishes. They're extremely durable.

[momto l&a]

We have Correll, had it about 7 years.

Broken 3 pieces in that time. With kids ages 7, 5, 2.5 thats not bad. They load and unload the dishwasher so those dishes see hard use.

[gothnurse3]

We use stainless steel camping plates. I bought them at academy (sport store) for around $2.00 a plate.

[Leylla]

I grew up with Corelle and hated it. PP is correct about it shattering into a buhzillion tiny peices...However, I know for a fact, that the plates make EXCELLENT frisbees.

My little kids use wooden plates and bowls...

The rest of us use either the Pfaltzgraph, or our Nortiake. Depends on which room we are eating, and the meal.

Steph

[counterGOPI]

stainless steel here too, any asian market will have them super cheap

[annethcz]

I've never used special plates for my kids, they just use what we use. I used to have plain old ceramic plates (HEAVY), but too many of them were broken. I now have Corelle- I grew up with Corelle, it just seemed normal to me. I've had my corelle set for about 3 years now, and I've been very happy with it.

[zmom]

We use Fiestaware. It does break on our tile but most of the pieces have been broken by me. Fortunately, it's not too expensive to replace individual pieces. When DD was younger (she'll be 3 in August) we used melamine and those enamel coated plates.

[NoliMum]

I read that in Europe, children use plates made of porcelain because it's thought that this will help develop better table manners. I like that idea; I think I'm going to try that with my daughter when she gets a little older.

For now, we just put her food on the highchair tray and wash it. Otherwise the bowls will be upturned immediately. Don't have a problem with throwing YET. Knock on wood.

[Ninja_Dad]

We bought a bunch of plastic : plates and bowls at IKEA several years ago when our Little Pirate was born, and they have lasted great through 2 kids (and now the third). We have loved them in our blissful ignorance all these years.

Thankfully, when I looked closely at them after finding out about all the plastic issues when I stumbled across this forum last month, I see that almost all of them are recyclable #5. The 3 that aren't marked are going to die a silent death, because if I tried to get rid of them all at this point, I think I'd be facing a major rebellion on the home front (DW isn't as on-board as me, unfortunately, but I'm still working on her because I know she would do anything to protect our little ones).

[velochic]

Originally Posted by NoliMum

I read that in Europe, children use plates made of porcelain because it's thought that this will help develop better table manners.

I don't know if that's why, but everyone in my dh's family (he's from Europe) uses porcelain, including the toddlers and children. I once asked why the don't have unbreakable dinnerware for the kids and really, that just wasn't even something they thought of. They couldn't understand why I would want to put ugly dinnerware on the table just because a child was sitting there. It made me very nervous the first few trips after dd was born, but I soon got over it.

I've taken a cue from the in-laws. We use our usual dishes and dd has never... *touch wood*... broken them. We've broken a couple of glasses, though. We do have fine china that we use for special occasions, as well, and dd gets to use that, too.

[KyleAnn]

Ds has always used our regular dishes as well, but I love the idea of the camping type plates.

We were given a few little sets as gifts but he never used them as I couldn't stand having a mismatched setting at the table (OCD).

At 4 y/o now we've still never had a broken dish-just one with a little chip!

[Treasuremapper]

Oh no. Are you telling me that I just spent eighty bucks on new plastic dishes and was soooo happy that there would be no more broken dishes, and that was dumb? I'm off to do some archives searches.

[tbone]

We love Corelle around here. We've been using it since before kids and have just continued to do so.

Stainless steel is good too, but I find that when my kids use it v/s Corelle they are a lot less careful. They also bang their silverware on the ss more since it makes a "cool" noise.