Melba's wrote on Sun, 18 Jul 2010 07:20:18 -0500:

> <http://www.chicagotribune.com/featur...sun-cooking-sc
> hools-20100 717,0,7359675.story>

> "This country cooks. Something like 70 percent of all meals
> are going to be prepared in one form or another by someone in
> the house," says Harry Balzer, chief industry analyst of the
> NPD Group, where he has followed Americans' eating and
> drinking patterns for 25 years. "The average American gets
> about 200 meals (a year) from a restaurant and that's almost
> unchanged for 10 years."

I wonder what they are counting as restaurants? A large number of
Americans eat lunch in cafeterias, in other words, say, 48x5 =240 meals
a year. A good fraction of those may be school kids and they probably
eat closer to 200 of course. For myself, even if I am retired, I eat in
a restaurant at very least once a week, most often lunch. I have to add
to that, the prepared food I may take home, often salads from a salad
bar. I wonder how frozen entrees and canned soups are counted?

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James Silverton
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