All you can eat....GENIUS!!!

[jackfaire]

However the genius lies not in the fact you can gorge yourself to bursting; that sickens me.

No the genius is in removing the menu.

What is the one problem you sometimes run into when looking at a menu?

Everything sounds good. Hmmm I wish there was a way to order a bit of everything and not have it cost an arm and a leg. AH HA!!!! All you can eat.

Boom a restaurant where they cook everything on the menu and then put it out for me to pick from. I pick what I want eat it go back for seconds because usually still hungry eat it and then move on with my day.

I am a 2 plate kind of guy I don't even gorge myself at Thanksgiving, when I show up.

Today I educated my daughter in the ways of All You Can Eat. I am sure that neither her mom or her grandmother have ever taken her to an All You Can Eat place because they look at fat people like me and think, 'God you must eat like a pig'

So what is your method do you eat until you blow up or do you take advantage of being able to have a bit of everything?

[Dreamstalker]

I usually get a bit of everything; especially at Chinese/Indian buffets I see it as a great opportunity to try stuff I wouldn't otherwise. If I like it and decide to start getting it from the regular menu, bonus. If I decide I don't like it as much as I thought, no big loss.

[Andara Bledin]

Mmm.... Buffets...

I start light, usually with appetizer type items and a bowl of soup. After that, I go back for the 'entree' portion, where I'll get a few main course items. Then, if I'm still feeling peckish, I'll check out the dessert section.

I recently put way too much coconut shrimp on my plate (that stuff is deceptively filling) and because I hate to waste food (and the stuff is so very tasty) I ate all of it, but I was feeling dangerously overstuffed for the entire ride home.

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[MaggieTheCat]

I've learned how to control how much I eat when I go to buffets or all you can eat places, especially ones that we go to regularly. There's an Indian buffet that we go to pretty frequently, and I've learned to take one plate with a little bit of a bunch of different things (this lets me try new things if there's something on the buffet I haven't had, or to just sample all the ones that I know I like.) Then usually I go back for a small plate and get a second small portion of one or two of my favorite items. Then usually a small portion of dessert. I used to overeat when we'd go there, now I've learned my limits.

It's harder when we're at a new restaurant, I have a harder time gauging when I'm full enough. Just this week we went to a Brazilian Steakhouse for the first time ever. The food was very good and it was all you can eat. First you start with a "salad area" that has salad bar type stuff and also a lot of appetizer/side dish type items. There were a lot of things we'd never had before so I loaded up my plate with a small portion of a bunch of items and it was all very tasty. After the "salad area" they bring you meat...and meat...and more meat. Basically (for those who've never been to a Brazilian Steakhouse) there are servers walking around with skewers of meat. Lots and lots of meat. They come to your table and ask if you'd like a portion of whatever they're serving. You say yes and they cut or shave some meat off their skewer onto your plate. Repeat about ten times. And you eat so much meat you don't know what to do with yourself.

I was full to bursting after that meal. We had about a half a mile walk to get back to our car, which helped, though.

[jackfaire]

I was full to bursting after that meal. We had about a half a mile walk to get back to our car, which helped, though.

*nods* I totally get that sometimes when me and my friends are celebrating we will end up eating more than we intended. We call it getting Splodey powers cuz you feel like if someone touches you then you will explode.

[insertNameHere]

My dad is the type that likes to make sure they gonna lose money when he walks in, which is why he is over weight and unable to control his diabetes. That is why I only try and have 2-3 smaller plates when I'm there, try a bit of everything. Actually, a few buffets I will just get a regular meal because I can tkae it home and make it a second meal for cheaper than a buffet would be and not need to over eat. Also, considering the cost of going out if I get a bad dish and can easy swtich at a buffet.

[tropicsgoddess]

I take a bit of every thing and eat till I'm full. Hey, why not if it's cheap and good? So long as I'm not being a complete hog about it.

[telecom_goddess]

I love buffets, because you can control what you get and how much. I like eating small amounts of a lot of things instead of one big thing...more interesting.

[firecat88]

When it comes to buffets and potlucks and things of that nature, I usually grab a little bit of whatever looks good or that I know for sure I can eat without getting sick from it later. For example- Everyone I know, besides my own mom, makes pasta salad, potato salad, and a few other salads with onions in them. Thus, unless I know it was made by my mom, I avoid it. Something like mac-and-cheese or a non-onion-having soup, though, is fair game for me.

Even at non-buffet sit-down places, though, depending on what kind of food it is, my family and I tend to order two or three entrees and an empty plate for each of us so everyone can have as much or as little of each entree as they want.

[Andara Bledin]

I'll invite you down next time we have a family get-together, then. Nobody in my immediate family likes onions, so our potato salad, egg salad, and deviled eggs lack them.

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[telecom_goddess]

I'll invite you down next time we have a family get-together, then. Nobody in my immediate family likes onions, so our potato salad, egg salad, and deviled eggs lack them.

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That's funny....I love onions but I never put them in those foods items it seems wrong to me

[IDrinkaRum]

My mom puts onions in her potato salad. I love it. Egg salad and deviled eggs, noper doo.

Mr. Rum, when he weight 476 didn't like to eat at buffets. Now that he's 265 pounds, he doesn't mind it.

For breakfast, we'll sometimes go to Old Country Buffet. We only like their breakfast. I've been trying to get him to go to a new Hibachi Grill and Buffet place, but he hasn't been inclined to do it.

Then there's Cici's Pizza. Great! Pizza on buffets.

[Eisa]

I love buffets, because you can control what you get and how much. I like eating small amounts of a lot of things instead of one big thing...more interesting.

Me, too. Om nom nom. I can't eat a lot. Like when my family goes to Red Lobster, I can't even finish the New England seafood sampler appetizer--that's my meal. So I like when I can just nibble on a bunch of things.

[Peppergirl]

I rarely go to buffets, except for a couple of local Indian ones. I only go occasionally because I have very little self control there and usually end up miserable when I leave.

Also, there are very few of my friends that will eat Indian - so I usually go by myself with a book..and I tend to eat even more when I'm alone, I think.