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I learned, after hosting 30-40 for dinner when I had little kids, that you cook most of it the day before. We had the best turkey and sides that year. So now I make my turkeys the day before , slice them and put them in a pan and pour in chicken broth to keep it moist. The sides are made and in serving casseroles the day before and just hit the oven when the appetizers come out. I use to spend the day in the kitchen while everyone else enjoyed themselve now I can relax and enjoy myself with everyone else and dinner is still great. Another benefit, my inlaws and mother want a good deal of leftovers to take home with them. I can make extra and have it already packaged for them without trying to get that done after dinner.

Discusting overpricing and overspending aside. It doesn't seem right that 20% is automatically added to this kind of bill. Were the dishes so much heavier, were the bottles that much harder to serve than a $30 bottle? Why should the server gain from the age of a fine wine by getting a percentage of the price?

When I go to a buffet I take the smallest piece I can find or cut one small. I like to taste new things not gorge. I like to cruise on ships and do the same thing there. When I go to fast food, really a rare, rare accurance, I order kids meal size and don't finish it. Personal responsibility matters, I can eat all I want at home and don't why would I do it at a buffet? I have seen people, especially on ships, eat massive amounts because they paid for it, personal responsibility matters. I'm not fat because I care about me, others don't, stop blaming food availability, have self control. I am so sick of people blaming their weakness on someone else.

@PerkyMac I agree Duffield's is good but Zimmermans Farm on Salina Road is much better. There is nothing like getting corn still warm from the field to eat a couple hours later. It's so sweet and perfect.

Hot tuna la choy chopped suey (hated it), hot dogs or balogna and cheese in a taco shell and microwaved until the shell was soft and cheese melted, crispy scrapple and ketchup on a heavily buttered kaiser roll, cold meatloaf sandwiches with tomato sauce and mayo, and the ole time favorite garbage soup, every leftover and wilting vegetable in a pot. Nothing ever went to waste.

Soup, low calorie but loaded with sodium, my body's demon. Just a little of someone elses or canned soup and I have at least 3 pounds added and day or two of protien and starvation ahead of me to get it back off. Unfortunately, the calling of a steaming hot bowl of most any soup is most of the time too tempting for me to pass up.

My grandmother would pan fry scrapple until the outside was crispy and the insides were soft. She would make scrapple sandwiches by heavily buttering a fresh kaiser roll, top with scrapple and plenty of ketchup. The butter would drip from it, it was so greasy but it was so good. Now that I'm older and know better I wouldn't think of eating like that but the innocence of childhood made these delicious.

My kids bring in baggies of M&M's and water bottles and I make microwave popcorn at home and bring that in with diet sprite or ice tea (movies only carry diet coke it seems). Not only cheaper but less calories and portion controlled.

I don't feel guilty. If theatres didn't charge $8 for .10 of popcorn and $5 for a bottle of water maybe they would make more money because people wouldn't feel ripped off and compelled to sneak food in.

I have been married to my husband for 26 years and have 3 children. I live to cook, it is what I love to do most but all 4 of them are extremely picky. My husband eats no vegetables other than lettuce, tomato on tacos or sandwiches and raw baby carrots and corn on the cob. No potatoes other than some fries, occasional instant mashed and baked potatoes. No rice, not big on pasta but will eat spaghetti with Ragu. Only beef and chicken, no fish, pork, etc. Only likes pizza from one place and could survive on cheese sandwiches, bread, and turkey sandwiches. My kids on the other hand eat no sandwiches, eggs, pasta, cheese, seafood, sauces, gravies, beans, you name it they don't eat it. It's horrible trying to come up with meals to feed everyone. I gave up eating dinner long ago because their meals are too boring. We almost never eat out and when we do it's always Outback and they all get sirloin and fries. They also recently started eating the bread and bloomin' onion so we are making progress. That being said...

We have an amazingly, happy, fight free marriage. Food makes me happy, they all eat to survive. They can't change me and I can't change them. My husband is a wonderful man and I have incredible kids, if you BFis special don't let food get between you and happiness.

I know my family must be in the major minority but Pink's hotdogs are terrible. We were in LA this summer and made a special trip to Pinks after seeing it on the Travel Channel & Food Network. We waited in a long (kinda fun) line that by the time we had gotten to the front was double the size so someone likes these things. There were 5 of us with one son who could live on hot dogs but took a bite and barely got that down. The casing was hard to bite into and the chili was nothing like chili we have on the East Coast. I love chili but this wasn't good at all. We got a plain with mustard, chili & cheese, chilli, with onions & mustard and a spicy dog with fries and onion rings. We left almost all of it uneaten. Could it be an East Coast/West Coast thing?

I remember seeing a show on egg producers and they check for the double yolk and remove them. I have eaten, cooked, openned 25 dozen each weekend day for a restaurant and have never seen a double yolk

I get even more crazed about my home version of the soup. I got tired of wasting the bread, and the bread soaking up the precious broth, so I have begun melting my cheese on the bottom of the soup crock until its bubbly and pouring the hot broth (onions strained out) on top of the cheese. That way I get the two best parts of the soup without creating an ugly mess on the side of the plate.

I go through at least 5lbs of onions a week, in soups, dinners, I put them in everything. What I find is so funny is that we both like onions but can't stand them in this soup.