Day 5 Handling the Holidays Series
Buffets: make sure you can see your plate!
Many holiday parties and gatherings have buffet type opportunities. Whether it’s an appetizer buffet, dessert buffet or a whole meal, the holidays tend to bring out the variety of foods like nothing else! You want to try it all!
Here’s a few tips for navigating a buffet: first make sure you can still see your plate. When you dish up your plate at home for dinner, it’s likely you can still see what color your plate is in between your food. You have your chicken separated from your rice and salad, or maybe it’s in a stack in the middle, but you have plenty of room on the edges. But at a buffet, suddenly you are piling food on top of food and feeling like you have to try it all! This is again coming from a place of scarcity (see day 3!). What if you dished up your plate in the same portions you would dinner at home, where you can still see what color your plate is in between the food? Make sure there are spaces between your food choices. With this little rule, you will likely not get too much on your plate. It’s something I’ve used multiple times and works great.
Second, quit the clean plate club. Seriously there is no prize there! If you find yourself at an event where you want to try it all—do it, but just TRY it. You don’t have to eat the entire thing. You want to try all 5 desserts? Do it—just have 2 bites of each and leave the rest. You want to try the potatoes and the stuffing? For sure—just eat half of each one. Don’t let there be drama about needing to finish. You’re an adult and you totally can leave food on your plate if you want!
Up next: the most important part of your holidays!
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