On 7/18/2010 7:20 AM, Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> It's the last sentence in the paragraph that caught my attention. Do
> you believe the statement?
>
> <http://www.chicagotribune.com/featur...-schools-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."
>
>
>
Not in this house, probably less than 100 meals a year outside the house
for us. I'm just to lazy to want to get dressed in long pants and a
sports shirt just to go eat some food I could cook myself. And I would
have to wear real shoes too instead of my Crocs.