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| One tip I saw recently was simply to use a smaller plate to serve your dinner. You can't get as much food on it plus your eye tells your brain there is a plateful of food and tricks you into thinking you are having more than you are.
Also (although admittedly this was speculation), if you serve food on blue plates it may suppress your appetite. The brain doesn't recognise "blue food", probably because there isn't any so it doesn't trigger the same response in the brain as foods with more recognisable colours (green, red, yellow, etc).
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I'd heard the smaller plate thing before and it makes sense as if you put food on a sandwich plate (it looks full) then transfer that same food to a dinner plate, it will seem like a lot less food. Maybe not in hyper analytical mode it won't but when it comes to appetite, it's not like many folks are in that hyper analytical state anyhow.
I'll "have" to give that blue plate thing a try.. my cheap white Ikea plates are chipping (
) and I want some new ones for if / when I start inviting folks for dinner.
Thinking about it though, do I WANT to suppress folks appetite if I'm feeding them? Wouldn't it throw the experience off?