When pursuing a healthy diet, the food pyramid is a reference point on how to fuel our bodies. Following this guidance will help us achieve balance and ultimately live a long and healthy life. This is all well and good, but we at Limoges Collector find structured displays of Limoges boxes much more tantalizing. There are Limoges boxes that belong to each category and we’re thinking that adding these food replicas to any personal collection may also hold the secret to a healthier, happier life.
Bread, Cereal, Rice, and Pasta
Let’s start at the bottom of the pyramid: Grains. Yum! Thank goodness this is the bulk of our daily diet requirements. Carbs are hard to resist, right? This goes for the porcelain versions as well. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner -- we’ve got the main ingredients right here. Our “Breakfast Cereal with Fruits Limoges Box,” “French Baguette Bread Loaf Limoges Box,” and “Pasta 2 Piece Cookware Set with Pasta” looks like a great daily recipe for any day of the week. These charming recreations of typical meal basics are so lifelike they make you hungry just looking at them.
Vegetables
For some, this may be the hardest part of the food pyramid to consume. We need 3-5 servings a day and many people need to work harder to make sure they are doing this dedicatedly. The Vegetable Limoges versions present no such quandary -- in fact, we think vegetables are so much better when you don’t have to eat them! Let’s just all agree that it does not take any conscious effort to appreciate porcelain vegetables with their rich colors and diverse appearances. Some of our veggies are even downright …. cute! Look at this adorable “Two Peas in a Pod Limoges Box” and this “Loving Rabbit Couple on Carrot” -- these figurines are an extra special helping of healthy foods to celebrate our happy relationships -- it just doesn’t get much more wholesome.
Adding this charming Half-Avocado Limoges box to your collection adds oodles of health benefits!!!
Fruits
Fruits are easy to love when it comes to raw foods being healthy and delicious. Many times they involve zero preparation, making easy on-the-go snacks. And sometimes, fruits like raspberries, mangos, and cherries are so sweet and juicy, they are basically dessert! Our “Large Realistic Strawberry Limoges Box '' and “Banana Bunch Limoges Box '' are just a couple of the fruit genre porcelain figurines we carry that make perusing our collection feel like you are visiting a farmer’s market. And for those of you who find it easier to meet your fruit quota by combining it with your dessert portions (because fruit is fruit, right?), we have replicas that salute this method, too. Our “Fruit Pie Under Glass Limoges Box” and “Fruit Tropical Drink Limoges Box” are tributes to the sweeter things in life and are just as appetizing as the real life versions.
Milk, Yogurt, and Cheese
Got Milk? This balanced lunch box feast certainly does. The “Lunchbox with Sandwich, Apple, Cookie, and Milk Limoges Box” looks like it has been intentionally prepared to hit all the pyramid parts, making it a yummy representation of a sensible mid day meal (and look at the size of that cookie!).
Since Limoges boxes are a French product, you can be sure that they will have plenty of cheese. Fancy cheese. This “Camembert Cheese Limoges Box” and “French Cheese Platter Limoges Box” are perfect for all of you turophiles. Display this in your collection alongside a nice Limoges Box bottle of wine and you have an enviable little setup, oui?
Meat, Poultry, Fish, Dry Beans, Eggs, and Nuts
There is a large variety of foods that offer protein for our bodies, which provides many musings here to fuel a Limoges painter's creative energies. All of these pretty proteins are to dine for. If you know someone who loves to fish or if you are a lover of seafood cuisine, this is the genre for you. The “Seafood Combo Basket” and “Big Catch Fisherman” are tributes to the wonderful array of pescatarian delights.
Since eggs are also in this category, we must show you a glimpse of what our French artists have done with these oval delights. There are sweet odes to the farm life, with pieces like the “Egg Carton with ½ Doz. Eggs Limoges Box.” And once Spring time rolls around, collectors go wild for the vibrantly painted eggs. “Easter Egg Basket Colored Eggs Limoges Box” and “Colored Eggs Stacking Limoges Box Set” are beautiful additions to any Eastertide display.
And lastly for this section of the nutrition structure, we must say that you’ll go “nutty” for our nut Limoges boxes. Almonds, chestnuts, walnuts, peanuts … these natural nutrient sources are great small snacks, and the porcelain versions make wonderful tiny display treasures for nut lovers everywhere. Our favorite is the universally recognizable and very rare “Mr. Peanut Limoges Box” complete with his distinguished top hat, cane, and monocle -- still the advertising mascot of Planters Peanuts brand, this box holds both vintage and modern appeal. If you love the treasures that appear within your Limoges boxes, our “Almond Nut Shell with Almond Inside” is one that will have you making frequent use of the hinged feature of your precious collectible to peek at the inner artistic addition.
Fats, Oils, and Sweets
With real food, this tip of the pyramid is the one area where one must tread lightly and practice self-restraint, but with Limoges box sweets and treats, there is no one to say that you can’t have it all!! Cookies, pies, ice cream …
all the sugary goodness you love from dainty tidbits to decadent indulgences. The finest bakeries and pastry shops are no match for what LimogesCollector has on display. We have loads of chocolate, oodles of cupcakes, and plenty of doughnuts. These make excellent gifts for a broad span of celebratory events ranging from birthdays, anniversaries, Valentine’s Day, and Christmas. Browse our confectionery delights to see such favorites as the “Chocolate/Vanilla Ice Cream Bar,” “Hearts Chocolate Cupcake Limoges Box,” and the “Chocolate/Vanilla Ice Cream Bar Limoges Box”. Our motto is: If you can’t eat ‘em, …. collect ‘em.
A Basic Framework for An Epicurean Collection
Now that we have looked at the food pyramid from a new angle, we see another perfect example of how relevant and inclusive the range of Limoges box offerings really is. We all love food and we all have our favorite section of this nutritional structure. Celebrate your love of food and good taste with these gorgeous mini marvels. Talented Limoge artists have created an assortment of hand painted porcelain charmers that will surely give you a healthy dose of pride in your collection and make you fall in love with the sheer aesthetics of food.
We actually carry thousands of 100% authentic Limoges boxes, featuring our exclusive Beauchamp brand.
Take a look at our complete collection of Limoges boxes! There’s sure to be a fine French collectable just perfect for your one-of-a-kind decorative experience.
