In article >,
brooklyn1 > wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 07:20:18 -0500, 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."
>
> That's because more and more meals consumed in the home are purchased
> pre-prepared from the frozen foods section, packages off the shelf,
> delis, and take outs... very few meals are actually prepared at home
> anymore other than to open the package and heat. Pasta with jarred
> sauce ain't cooking.

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