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Originally Posted by jaspal
Gracie,
I am with you. I prefer to cook at home. I am into healthy eating. This is difficult to do when you eat out. Occasionally I eat out for social reasons but prefer what I cook at home.
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Healthy eating is a virtue and we have found it can be done on the cheap right here in TV.
For under 8 bucks can anyone tell us how to beat Golden Corral?
As long as they are telling the truth and not using lard where they say they aren't, and not sulfiting the salads, and truly steaming what they say they are steaming, this pair of health conscious eaters and the two with whom we eat there almost daily are able to stick to a most healthy diet.
Those two friends are a retired sports medicine physician and author and a nutritionist wife that taught healthy cooking classes and help co-author many of their best-selling books on diet and health.
His mom has been taking his advice for years and even ate there with us on her 103d birthday a couple years ago!! ("That's my son, the doctor!")
A vegetarian, vegan, and even a raw food diet can be satisfied there.
There's no way we can cook at home for anywhere close to the cost, and that's not taking into consideration the waste, prep time, and clean up (we are both still working, so time has a huge value)
For added health, we and the good doc and wife show up between 2 and 3 for the lunchtime pricing, low crowd, and the health benefit of not eating too late - one of his articles that worked for us says eating too late in the day helps avoid staying fit.
For an added bonus, when we ride the bikes there, we indulge a little heavier and have been known to join the good doc in a bowl of his 'tough-to-pass-up' volcano cake, made fresh from scratch daily on premises.
We read such good things about the Speckled Butterbean and took the bikes down there last Sunday, being salad bar devotees.
With all due respect, we hope it was just a day. Salad bar items few and far between. Most bins were empty or near empty. Tomatoes were yellow/green, lettuce looked bagged and light green, and many items never showed up.
There were no hot items without meat or cooked without meat except for the potatoes.
Bon appetite
L and L