(so I'm late to the party, again!)
Okay, so I voted to elaborate...
Yes, I use paper plates from time to time
(not often though, much to the chagrin of DH, he thinks ALL meals should be on paper plates, no fuss, no muss)
to serve a quick meal on, as others have already said, such as sandwiches and non-fork-and-knife foods on.
[file photo-Chicken & Kielbasa Gumbo)
I also use them for mes en place, very handy.
And let me say here that we have a trash-pick-up-company that
goes through the stuff in our can and picks out the recyclables and ASKS us
not to.
No really! I've gone to there facility.
I buy the el-cheap-o REALLY thin plates, y'know, the 100 count for about two bucks or so.
I also share some of my baked goods and so forth with our neighbors on these paper plates... I don't want them to have to stress over bring back a plate, y'know?