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"merryb" > wrote in message
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> On Thursday, August 22, 2013 3:40:46 PM UTC-7, Julie Bove wrote:
>> "Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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>> ...
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>> > You an make a study come out any way you want. With little effort, it
>> > can

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>> > be turned around. Very few meals are cheaper at a restaurant.

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>> That's true too. But if you look at it from the standpoint of everyone
>> in
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>> the family being able to get just what they want, the restaurant
>> certainly
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>> could be cheaper. A lot of what you'd buy would have a larger amount
>> than
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>> what you'd need for that one meal.
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>> But in the larger picture, if you can plan to use the extras (and some
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>> people are not able to do this well), then of course eating at home is
>> less.

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> Most people don't cook the same was as you do- you are more like a short
> order cook trying to make everyone happy. In my house, if you don't like
> what I'm cooking, tough shit.


I like to please my family but I won't spoil them the way Julie spoils hers.
But, if that is what makes her happy .... not for me though.

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