Do people have huge selections of dishes, cookware, utensils, etc? My mother and sister have huge kitchens with many deep shelves just packed with plates, serving bowls, stuff for entertaining, several arrays of silverware, glasses and mugs galore!
In our RV we don't have the luxury of being able to have a large collection of dishware, so we've had to narrow down what we keep to things that are constantly kept in use.
For tupperwares: we're down to three large bowl like ones, four tall ones, and three small bowl like ones. These are also the bowls we eat out of, so we just use them and wash them and put them back on the shelf.
Dishes, besides using the tupperwares: We also have four Melamine plates, a thermos, two wine glasses, a stackable set of plastic drinking cups, a shotglass, one plastic measuring cup, three travel mugs, and one ceramic mug.
Utensils - we have a set of Lexan plastic silverware (dan likes to eat from plastic, so i have adapted). Two large plastic serving plates. We also have a can opener, old fashioned hand mixer, wine opener, four kinds of preparing knives, a whisk, a food scissors, a wok-like frying pan and one saucepan. One plastic collander.
Outside the RV I keep a crockpot and a Foreman Grill on the picnic table for outdoor cooking. Inside we just use the microwave.
I am constantly renegotiating what we need/use or not. I might get rid of the whisk, one or two of the knives and the colander. We don't use the stovetop at campgrounds, but i am holding onto the frypan and saucepan for the rare occasions that we are boondocking and will have to use the propane stove.
It feels nice to get things down to just exactly what we need.
Last edited by Jilly; 04/05/09 02:42 PM.
