ridge region 101 that typically does not contact the external surface and that typically spans the circumference of plate 100 circularly shaped disk 107 may be peeled off by a user thus exposing adhesive area 105 when adhesive area 105 contacts the external surface picnic plate 100 is secured to the external surface in accordance with the adhesive characteristics of an associated adhesive for example the tack level of the adhesive used in adhesive area 105 may be categorized as being super high high medium or low the greater the tack level the more secure plate 100 will be to the external surface and thus the greater robustness to external forces such as wind gusts however with a greater tack level the user may need to exert more effort to remove the utensil from the external surface thus the tack level may be chosen in accordance with expected environmental conditions and usage in the embodiment circularly shaped disk 107 has a cut out 109 located at an approximate center of disk 107 in the embodiment as shown in fig1 the adhesive of adhesive area 105 is applied in a u201c ring u201d also circularly shaped disk 107 has a tab 111 that is not affixed to adhesive.