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."

I don't know. That's almost 4 meals a week pp..... we don't eat out
that often unless we are on a trip. If you count meals eaten on a
vacation... we do way more than that.

Here lately, we aren't going out as much as we used to. Why pay for
something that you can do better at home. I hardly ever order steak in
a restaurant... they are seldom as good as the ones we make on the
grill. Becca makes Mexican food so well that eating in a local
restaurant is often a disappointment. We both are enjoying making
Asian food and experimenting with that.

When we do go out, Most of the time I like to order things that we don't
uaually make at home.

George L