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Could you please pass the pepper?
You don’t need a disability to enjoy your favorite food on these extra ergonomic plates. You might want to buy one for yourself and one for your care partner, since these are the world’s easiest-to-use plates for a complete meal.
Membership to the Clean Plate Club is common for people who eat with these plates.
Or in this household, should I reach to grab the pepper myself?
In America, families get to choose the type of politeness at the table. You can choose the fancy closet silverware on a special occasion, and pick your comfiest plate to chow down balanced nutrition most days.
These especially awesome plates we’re shopping today are extra nice to eat with for adults. Some are labeled “Adaptive” and “Assistive” cuz they made for food-to-mouth delivery scoop after scoop with less chance of mess.
Invite a friend to eat a meal with you on a pair of these dandy scoop plates, indeed. One plate per person of course! It’s fun in the privacy of your home to share with family and friends who don’t judge you for eating different.
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Size: 8 inches diameter
Colors: Ivory (White), Red
Style: Curved Edge Hi-Lo Plate
With a fork or spoon, you scoop against the plate’s curved perimeter to more easily shovel food. That’s what’s unique about this self-feeding plat for adults. It’s made from lightweight plastic - durable when dropped to the floor. On the bottom, you’ll find a full-circle non-slip rubber pad to grip flat surfaces.
Dine With Variety: For one alternative, see this offwhite, 8 inch curved edge assistive plate by North Coast Medical brand made of dishwasher safe, microwave safe heat resistant plastic material.
Size: 7.5 inches diameter
Colors: Blue Plate with White Base
Style: Curved Edge Hi-Lo Plate
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Or shop here on Amazon.
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Or here under yet another different name on Amazon - sheesh!
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Older adults dine by themselves with dignity and get enough to eat with elderwell eatery like this. What you’ve seen before… This scoop plate perimeter’s curvature folds like a cliffhanger enabling the easiest-possible scooping of food against “the overhang”. What’s new? This suction cup offers more table grip and stability, because in addition to non-slip rubberish material, it’s shaped to suck onto a not-very-porous surface (like a semi-glossy kitchen table). More than the standard *flat* rubber grip, this padded, gummy, and ergonomic full diameter suction cup plate base is like the forever oyster holding the plate halfshell to the table halfshell.
What are Maddak products’ real brand name? Don’t get bogged down thinking why Maddak brand’s scoop plate is called SP Ableware. Ecommerce shops across the internet confuse Maddak (the most well known entity name) with Ableware (another name) and even FabLife (another name, maybe for the French-Canada market). Under these three identified “Brand Names”, my best guess is it’s the C-level business people buy and sell the rights to manufacturer and wholesale this innovative suction-cup base of a scoop plate... BUT, they leave the retailers stuck with old information.
If blue’s not the color for you, maybe the “Power of Red” (by Essential Medical Supply bran d) stands out in your home three meals a day. It’s available both on Amazon and at Walmart.
The suction-base function is the same as Maddak’s popular plate pick, but unknown brand KMINA sells a white-color suction-cup base scoop plate to display with other white china during fine dining and fancy affairs.
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Size: 9 inches diameter
Colors: White
Style: Standard Edge Hi-Lo Plate
Would you prefer a plate for side-scooping with a shape that looks more like a regular white adult dinner plate? It’s the “High to Low Tilted Perimeter” makes loading the utensil full of food easier, by pushing the food against the “High Side of the Plate”. Use this plate like shoveling snow against the side of a building, and the food piles up on your fork. Feel the grippy rubber base non-skid base, and don’t worry about making mistakes because it’s made of not-easily-broken polypropylene type plastic (a common material for adults’ adaptive plates).
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Size: 6.75 inches diameter
Colors: Blue
Style: Curved Edge Hi-Lo Plate
This blue-colored Maddak brand’s “High Side” has a border shaped like an ocean wave, for scooping without spilling food bits over the edge.
All the plates we’ve reviewed so far (Sammons Preston and Maddak) are dishwasher safe a cool temperature. Most are heat-resistant for hot water wash, but require special care like “top shelf only”.
Getting food to mouth for a person who’s having trouble getting enough nutrients is most important to shoppers who give care, so the included duty of having to wash plates after use only comes to mind after caregivers’ selfless nature settles into a new thing to do every day.
Probably due to their non-slip grips made of rubberish materials and their varied plastic types (typically polypropylene), most plastic-looking (red, blue, white) plates are NOT microwave safe.
Get that Red + White pair on Amazon.
Test out the Red on Amazon.
Shop Red at Walmart.
Stick with White on Amazon.
Shop White at Walmart.
Size: 9 inches diameter
Colors: Red or White from Providence, or Blue from Vive
Style: Sloped Inner Rim Hi-Lo Plate
A unique style of plates for adults! Because outside the plate’s “High Side” is a full-perimeter flat rim that collects crumbs that topple over its “High Wall” (a safety platform for catching food). These red and white color plates are well-suited for messy eaters. Looking to the bottom side, the rubbery grip part is only made up of a circumference, so that’s less grip than a full surface-area rubber pad (and also less grip than a plate bottom with tabletop suction).
What a drag! When you find the plate shape you like but in the wrong color (wrong color is white or red, when you like blue better). Vive offers the same style scoop plate with ergonomic half-wall, 360-degree flat outside rim, and lightweight non-skid bottom ring — in blue.
A near-exact (if not from the same factory) flat dish from Liberty Assistive brand looks almost the same (a good alternative to consider).
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Size: 7.75 inches diameter
Colors: Offwhite
Style: Perpendicular High Side Plate
The complete GripWare product line by North Coast Medical ranks well for its unusual “Very High Sides” that “Go Straight Up All Around”. Towering at 1.75 inches high sides, they offer the “Full Circumference is High Version” as well as a “One-Third Cutout Version” making it even easier to angle utensils and lever hard-to-get plate portions. One unfortunate drawback given the name “GripWare”, its small-size rubber grip feet offer good texture for tabletops, but lack the surface area and suction of other plates reviewed today (worse grip than other plates).
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Size: 10 inches diameter
Colors: Yellow
Style: Three-Compartment Plate with Lid
The see-through snap-on lid fits snugly overtop this three-parts plate for warming in the microwave and cooling in the fridge. Its raised edge three compartments remind you to balance food groups with less of “the bad” sugars and fats (and/or eat less food by keeping in bounds of the plate). Its bright yellow color helps the hungry and hard-of-sight earn their membership to the Clean Plate Club.
Buy direct on Providence Spillproof Container (PFC) Website.
What’s Red on Amazon?
What’s Red at Walmart?
What’s White on Amazon?
What’s White at Walmart?
Size: 9 inch diameter
Colors: Red or White
Style: Three-Compartment Plate
Nice for anyone who prefers to keep food separate on the plate (because often two different-flavor foods don’t taste good together, even when served in the same meal). The Providence Spillproof Container (PFC) brand is best-known for their selection of spill-proof sippy cups and hydration supplies for people with disabilities — and they’re well-versed in adaptive dishes too, like this one that’s shaped for scooping from any section and has a grippy bottom ring to keep the plate in place. The partitions divided a meal in three, maybe like how the Food Pyramid is a pyramid shape.
A very similar three-partition assistive plate from Liberty Assistive brand offers near-exact shape and grip (a worthy alternative to consider).
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Size: 12 x 9.25 inches rectangle
Colors: Aqua
Style: Weighted
When you thought three portions of food was little food or too few types, then lesser-known Ehucon brand brings a fresh seafoam color adaptive food tray with four ergonomically-divided proportions. Neither quarter of the plate makes an exact 25%, so it’s fun and balanced to serve up and enjoy a meal with quadruple variety like room service at a 4-star hotel. The thing weighs over 1.6 pounds, so that’s why it’s called a “Weighted Plate”. Underneath the 3D rectangular tray are four (pretty tiny) grippy pads in each corner. I’m hoping together with the weight, those lil grip nubs ar’nuf to keep the thing in place when struck from the side by accident.
My verdict is it’s fine and dandy for the relatively unknown and foreign-sounding Ehucon brand to bring-to-market nice turquoise color plates made from strong melamine material with partitions for people who like to separate portions of a meal. Something to look for in 2024!
