It used to to be a thing about special occassions, you got out the good china. I have fond memories of cleaning up Grandmas china for Thanksgiving (christmas was to many people we got paper disposable) And of my mother using her good setting on rare occassions...I thought it was way cool to be special enough for 'the good china'.

Now I have a kids, plastic reigns supreme! (washable, can't stumache the cost of disposable) But I still have my own version of 'the good....' for guests. We are offering chili for early guests tonight, and we got cans of beans (cause I am hit or miss with dried, didn't want to make guests suffer if I missed!) We are having ice cream and we got caramel and hot fudge sauce and magic shell (you paid how much for a brown concotion of stuff to harden on icecream...the way REAL fudge sauce is supposed to?)

So while I may still stick with plastic bowls company or no, I will offer my version of 'rolling out the red carpet' for the guests...real junk food .