The Diet Plate is a fine earthenware plate manufactured to the highest standards by Royal Stafford Tableware Ltd. It is microwave and dishwasher safe, invented by Kay Illingworth a finalist in the British Female Inventor of the Year Awards 2002.

The plate has been on trial with several State Registered Dieticians (Dieticians) and has been acknowledged as a nutritionally balanced aid for dieting. The boundaries designated for starch and protein are an accurate dietary measure and that the plate is suitable for diabetics to use.

The Diet Plate replaces you everyday dinner plate and becomes your perfect partner in portion control. It makes losing weight easier to do and as you cut down on the proteins and carbohydrates, which contain all the calories, it leaves space on your plate to fill up on the good stuff, like carrots, cabbage, broccoli and salads. Even better, this way of eating may prevent cancer and heart disease and is ideal for diabetics.

The Diet Plate is calibrated so that the starch or carbohydrate section will hold no more than four ounces before the food starts to slide over the boundary tape. The protein section will hold three ounces before the meat or oily fish is spreading over that boundary tape. If you pile the food too high it will just cascade over, that is why there are no ridges on the plate to hold it in place. Starches contain about 35 calories an ounce, while proteins can contain 95 calories.