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Default Americans dine out 4.8 times a week?

Brooklyn1 > wrote in
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> "Winters_Lackey" > wrote:
>> Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>>> I rarely go for breakfast. Breakfast menus are usually high fat,
>>> high sugar foods. I limit myself to bacon and eggs once a week, and
>>> always make sure to have fruit with it. My usual breakfast at home
>>> is porridge, and I will be damned if I am going to pay $3-4 for a
>>> small bowl of oatmeal when I can make it for myself at home for 5
>>> cents.

>>
>>You can't make a bowl of oatmeal for 5 cents.

>
> Okay, he exaggerates, 10¢ for more than one person can eat.
> http://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Valu...shioned-Oats-4
> 2-Oz/10314925


Right, Sheldon. One, 150 calorie serving is "more than one person can
eat."


> I actually detest eating breakfast out... they charge
> outrageous prices for two stinkin' eggs and rarely are they properly
> cooked. Breakfast is the easiest meal to prepare at home.
>

I agree, but my wife loves breakfast at good pancake joints like
http://originalpancakehousestlouis.com/ Outrageous prices? Yes.
Poor quality? Absoutely not. The food is about as good as it could
possibly be.
>




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