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Wow. Sounds just like M.F.K. Fisher.

Good lord! Shouldn't we all just step back from the flat-screen, off of our collective lard ass, and stop fretting over what "celebrity chefs" say to one another? Boo-hoo-hoo, Anthony insulted Paula.....

I'm sure that you expected detractors, so I won't feel that I'm revealing any great secrets. I predict, and hope, that in a decade or two you will all get a good laugh out of this trend-heavy marketing genius that is "cleansing." Not only are you spending exorbitant amounts of money on liquids that have been extracted from good veg/fruit/nuts (the remaining 80% or so of the foodstuffs having been discarded), but you're paying _extra_ to have it delivered!! This plan starts at $60 per day, and rises steeply from there. For a bit of juice squeezed from a load of food that could feed many people. Holy crap, I live on $60 in food for a week, and all of it fresh and honest.

Your offices are in Chinatown. Go downstairs on your lunch break, buy some fresh greens, some ripe fruit, and eat it, flesh, peels, leaves and all. There's your healthy "cleanse."

Let us not forget the bacallà sellers, with their stupendous marble counters, with three or four basins carved into the stone to hold the fish as it bathes in constantly running fresh water. No laborious soaking your salt cod for the evening meal at home!

...but you are boring us with your personal dislikes...

No, I don't have "issues with this." If you do, I suggest that you continue your "love affair" with your kitchen and refrigerator and stay home. But someday you might grow up, and no longer feel the ick when someone offers you a homemade hors d'oeuvre. Well, probably not...

Chilaquiles, rojos por favor, have been my morning-after lunch for longer than I care to admit. Once I moved to NY from Northern CA, I had to figure out how to make my own. I keep pucks of home-made sauce in the freezer. I buy the totopos (chips) from Mexican restaurants in my neighborhood that make their own. Easier, and cleaner, than frying at home.

What does "...a plate with ranch..." mean?

Surimi, aka fake crab legs. Seriously, if you don't like fish don't eat it. You can get all of your "nutrients" from other things.

@maztec: I had the same problem as you, and I decided long ago to stop asking those friends to accompany me. Too big a headache! I go with my pals that are willing to eat anything and everything, and you should too. Go early, and go often!
@Seppo: I make lots of Chinese dishes, including many dim sum treats, at home now. The husband is allergic to shellfish, and has other issues with "weird" ingredients, so I make dishes at home that taste exactly like the restaurant versions, minus the dried scallops and shrimps.

Do you want a boyfriend or a project? Hon, your time is better spent on other things.

You wrote: "I don't try to "force" him to eat vegetables, and I think he appreciates it when I am concerned about his health." So, continue not "forcing" him. And don't ever, ever, think that he's all hearts and flowers over your concern for his dietary health.

Oh, and the $5 cup of cereal milk!?!