On Sunday, August 25, 2013 12:46:31 PM UTC-7, Ophelia wrote:
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> > On Thursday, August 22, 2013 3:40:46 PM UTC-7, Julie Bove wrote:
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> >> "Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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> >> > You an make a study come out any way you want. With little effort, it
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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
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> >> the family being able to get just what they want, the restaurant
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> >> could be cheaper. A lot of what you'd buy would have a larger amount
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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
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> > Most people don't cook the same was as you do- you are more like a short
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> > order cook trying to make everyone happy. In my house, if you don't like
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> > what I'm cooking, tough shit.
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> I like to please my family but I won't spoil them the way Julie spoils hers.
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> But, if that is what makes her happy .... not for me though.
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I agree- I won't cook something that I know one of us hates, but you can't make everyone happy all the time. That would be exhausting!