Tuesday Tip: Buy Smaller Plates

This week I went out a bought some new plates.

Not a lot, just a few.

Four, to be exact.

I didn't really NEED plates because I have plates in my house.

(They're not particularly fancy, but they get the job done.)

But I was tired of looking at my plate and seeing something like this:

Check out this woefully sad amount of food.

At least, that's what it looks like.

All that space alone is enough to make me feel hungry.

And so I went and bought new plates.

Four plates.

Salad plates.

Just for me.

So that now my meals look like this:

Ahhh, much better.

Same exact amount of food.

But somehow, I feel more full knowing I ate a plate's worth of food.

Isn't it great that I can just trick my mind like that?

It's like an optical illusion...only completely different.

Plus, I'm in love with my brand spankin' new plates.

The color makes me happy and I just can't wait to fill those plates with healthful*, well-balanced food.

(*Did you know that in English things are healthful and people are healthy? Who knew?)