Catland,
I don't know if this is exactly what you mean, but, I thought I would tell you about Tex. He gets a bowlful of wet food in the am...I am trying to fatten him up. He doesn't 'eat' the food, but licks it..it gets so plastered onto the bottom of the bowl that he can't really eat it anymore. So, I do two things. First, I put the bowl on top of a dampened washcloth. This makes a kind of rubber stop, and the bowl won't keep moving. I then stop the food fest every once in a while and re-pile his food into the middle of the bowl, so he has a easier pile to lick from.

Maybe that would help?